Task Force Conference 2009 – Resources
“Increasing Transparency in Global Finance: A Development Imperative”
Wednesday, September 16 – Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Hilton Embassy Row, 2015 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
Day 1
Opening
Conference Chairman: Tom Cardamone, Managing Director, Global Financial Integrity
Opening Addresses
Poul Engberg-Pedersen, Director General, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Raymond Baker, Director, Global Financial Integrity, Center for International Policy
Panel 1 – Transfer Pricing
Alex Cobham, Christian Aid, Chair
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Jack Blum, Chairman, Tax Justice Network USA
Krishen Mehta, Director, Asia Initiatives
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Raymond Baker, Director, Global Financial Integrity, Center for International Policy
Horizons 1 – Magnitudes and Directions
James Boyce, Director, Program on Development, Peace-building, and the Environment, Political Economy Research Institute, & Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
Dev Kar, Lead Economist, Global Financial Integrity, Center for International Policy
Peter Reuter, Director, Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy, University of Maryland
Lunchtime Keynote
Lord Daniel Brennan, Matrix Chambers, & Chairman, Caux Round Table
Panel 2 – Automatic Exchange
John Christensen, Director, Tax Justice Network, Chair
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David Spencer, Tax Justice Network
Martin Sullivan, Tax Analysts
Jonathan Winer, Senior Vice President, APCO Worldwide Inc
Horizons 2 – Norwegian Commission
Harald Tollan, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chair
Dr. Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Research Director, Public Sector Reform, Chr. Michelsen Institute
Fridtjov Thorkildsen, Director, Governance and Anti-Corruption Unit, Norad
Ståle Slettebakken, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Panel 3 – Country-by-Country Reporting
Corinna Gilfillan, Head of US Office, Global Witness, Chair
Richard Murphy, Tax Research LLP
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Horacio Peña, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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Evening Keynote
Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy & Director, International Development Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
The Honorable Carl Levin, United States Senator
Day 2
Panel 4 – Beneficial Ownership
Charles Davidson, Publisher & CEO, The American Interest, Chair
Matthew Rosen, New York County District Attorney’s Office
Anthea Lawson, Global Witness
Chip Poncy, Director, Office of Terrorist Financing & Financial Crimes, US Department of the Treasury
Horizons 3 – Asset Recovery
Lord Daniel Brennan, Counsel, Matrix Chambers, & Chairman, Caux Round Table, Chair
Adrian Fozzard, Coordinator, STAR Project, World Bank
Alan Bacarese, Basel Institute
Ken Hurwitz, Anticorruption Senior Legal Officer, Open Society Institute
Partnership Panel of the Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development
Harald Tollan, Norway
Rodrigo Arcos, Chile
Regina Bernhard, Germany
María Villanueva, Spain
Jean-Sébastien Conty, France
Frederik Haver-Droeze, The Netherlands
Panel 5 – Predicate Offenses
François Valerian, Head of Private Sector Programs, Transparency International, Chair
Heather Lowe, Legal Counsel & Director of Government Affairs, Global Financial Integrity
Nick Podsiadly, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Horizons 4 – Economists’ Advisory Council
Paul Collier, Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, & Professor of Economics, Oxford University Department of Economics, Chair
James Boyce, Director, Program on Development, Peace-building, and the Environment, Political Economy Research Institute, & Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
Seeraj Mohamed, Director, Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme (CSID), School of Economics and Business Sciences University of the Witwatersrand
Review of Task Force (Draft) Declaration, and Closing Remarks
Conference Chairman: Tom Cardamone, Managing Director, Global Financial Integrity
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