UNGA CONFERENCE 2015
    UN POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
    Contributions of Private Sector and Civil Society

    Tuesday, 29 September 2015

    HSA Conference Room, 4 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036

    8:00 – 9:00am   Breakfast

    9:00 – 9:10am   Opening Welcome Remarks

    • Huseyin Hurmali, Vice-President of JWF
    • Zafer Akın, President of PII

    9:10 – 9:20 am   Introduction UN Post-2015 Development Agenda

    The Roadmap to Sustainable Development Goals

    Keynote: H.E. Elois Anguimate, Minister of Education, Central African Republic

    9:30 – 11:00 am   Panel 1: Contributions of Civil Society

    Moderator: Mr. Jeffery Huffines, UN Representative (NY), CIVICUS

    • Sello Hatang, CEO, Nelson Mandela Foundation, South Africa
    • Helmut Dinse, President, Eringerfeld Educational Institution, Germany
    • Besnik Mustafaj, President, The Albanian Forum for the Alliance of Civilization, Albania
    • Savas Metin, Secretary-General, Kimse Yok Mu, Turkey
    • Erik Kabera, Director, Kwetu Film Institute, Rwanda

    11:00 – 11:15am   Coffee Break

    11:15 – 12:45pm   Panel 2: Contributions of Private Sector

    Keynote: H.E. Atefeh Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General and

       Chief Information Technology Officer, United Nations

    Moderator: Ms. Leanne Bayer, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank Group

    • Mohamed Ali Ansar, Co-Director, Timbuktu Renaissance Association (Mali)
    • David Hong, Once Acre Fund, East Africa
    • Manoj Gursahani, President, US India Investment Forum, India
    • Lambert Koty, President and CEO, AGETUR, Benin

    1:00 – 2:00pm   Piano Performance by Paul Knight

    1:00 – 2:00pm    Lunch

    2:00 – 3:30pm   Panel 3: Perspectives from UN Member States

    Keynote: H.E. Mr. Lener Renauld, Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Republic of Haiti

    Moderator: H.E. Mr. Ashok Sajjanhar, Former Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan,

           Sweden and Latvia

    • Arben Malaj, President, Institute for Public Policy and Good Governance, Albania
    • Ndeye Awa Mbodj, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, President of the Network of Parliament for Promoting the Defense and the Integration of Senegalese Diaspora, Senegal
    • George Francis Nangale, President, Tanzania Red Cross Society, Tanzania
    • Tran Viet Thai, Deputy Director-General & Director, Institute for Foreign and Strategic Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV), Vietnam

    3:30 – 3:45pm    Coffee Break

    3:45 – 5:45pm   Panel 4: The Way Forward

    Keynote: H.E. Thomas Gass, Assistant-Secretary-General Policy Coordination and

    Inter-Agency Affairs UN DESA (United Nations-NY)

    Moderator: Dr. Lisa Goddard, Director, International Research Institute for Climate and

           Society, Earth Institute, Columbia University

    • Steve Killelea, President & Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace, Australia
    • Laurence Kemball Cook, CEO & Founder, Pavegen, U.K.
    • E. Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma, First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone
    • E. Mrs. Aisha Buhari, Wife of the President of Nigeria
    • E. Ms. Fatou Lamin Faye, Minister of Basic and Secondary Education of the Gambia

     

    AWARD CEREMONY

    “FIRST LADIES OF EXCELLENCE AWARD”

    6:00pm   Closing Remarks

    • E. Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director

    Intergovernmental Support and Strategic Partnerships Bureau, UN Women