About the Task Force

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

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Panel 1 – Transfer Pricing

Alex Cobham, Christian Aid, Chair

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Jack Blum, Chairman, Tax Justice Network USA

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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

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Dev Kar, Lead Economist, Global Financial Integrity, Center for International Policy

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Peter Reuter, Director, Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy, University of Maryland

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Lunchtime Keynote

Lord Daniel Brennan, Matrix Chambers, & Chairman, Caux Round Table

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Panel 2 – Automatic Exchange

John Christensen, Director, Tax Justice Network, Chair

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David Spencer, Tax Justice Network

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Martin Sullivan, Tax Analysts

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Jonathan Winer, Senior Vice President, APCO Worldwide Inc

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Horizons 2 – Norwegian Commission

Harald Tollan, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chair

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Dr. Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Research Director, Public Sector Reform, Chr. Michelsen Institute

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Fridtjov Thorkildsen, Director, Governance and Anti-Corruption Unit, Norad

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Ståle Slettebakken, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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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

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The Honorable Carl Levin, United States Senator

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Day 2


Panel 4 – Beneficial Ownership

Charles Davidson, Publisher & CEO, The American Interest, Chair

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Matthew Rosen, New York County District Attorney’s Office

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Anthea Lawson, Global Witness

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Chip Poncy, Director, Office of Terrorist Financing & Financial Crimes, US   Department of the Treasury

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Horizons 3 – Asset Recovery

Lord Daniel Brennan, Counsel, Matrix Chambers, & Chairman, Caux Round Table, Chair

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Adrian Fozzard, Coordinator, STAR Project, World Bank

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Alan Bacarese, Basel Institute

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Ken Hurwitz, Anticorruption Senior Legal Officer, Open Society Institute

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Partnership Panel of the Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development

Harald Tollan, Norway

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Rodrigo Arcos, Chile

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Regina Bernhard, Germany

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María Villanueva, Spain

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Jean-Sébastien Conty, France

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Frederik Haver-Droeze, The Netherlands

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Panel 5 – Predicate Offenses

François Valerian, Head of Private Sector Programs, Transparency International, Chair

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Heather Lowe, Legal Counsel & Director of Government Affairs, Global Financial Integrity

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Nick Podsiadly, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

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Horizons 4 – Economists’ Advisory Council

Paul Collier, Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, & Professor of Economics, Oxford University Department of Economics, Chair

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James Boyce, Director, Program on Development, Peace-building, and the Environment, Political Economy Research Institute, & Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair

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Seeraj Mohamed, Director, Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme (CSID), School of Economics and Business Sciences University of the Witwatersrand

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Review of Task Force (Draft) Declaration, and Closing Remarks

Conference Chairman: Tom Cardamone, Managing Director, Global Financial Integrity

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