Roundtable 2: Creating an institutional environment conducive to increased foreign investment and sustainable development

Sub-theme 3: Enhancing the enabling environment at all levels to strengthen productive capacity, trade and investment: mobilizing resources and harnessing knowledge for development.

Participants

Moderator:

H.E. Mr. Benjamin Mkapa, President Emeritus of the United Republic of Tanzania and Co Chair, Investment Climate Facility for Africa

Panellists:

H.E. Mr. Mohamed Nouri Jouini, Minister of Development and International Cooperation, Tunisia
H.E. Mr. Semakula Kiwanuka, Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda
H.E. Mr. Ronald Robinson, Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica
H.E. Mr. Yi Xiaozhun, Vice-Minister of Commerce, China
H.E. Mr. Alfredo Bonet Baiget, Vice-Minister and General Secretary for Trade, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Spain
H.E. Mr. Marek Belka, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and former Prime Minister of Poland
Mr. Mario Amano, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Discussants:

H.E. Mr. Gamini Lakshman Peiris, Minister of Export Development and International Trade, Sri Lanka
Ms. Dagmar G. Wöhrl, Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of the Economy, Germany
Mr. Mart Laanemae, Undersecretary of Economic and Development Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia
Ms. Jacqueline Coté, Permanent Representative of ICC, Geneva
Mr. Fernando Sedano, Director of Investment Operations and Promotions, National Agency of Investment Promotion, Argentina
Ms. Myriam Vander Stichele, SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations