AGENDA

Opening Session

Welcome, Introduction, and Format of the day
Adrian Wood, Director, Policy Division, UK Department for International Development

Opening Address
James Wolfensohn, President, World Bank

Morning Session 1: Why Transparency Matters

· Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute

· Jeroen Van Der Veer, Group Chief Executive Officer, Shell

· Takatoshi Kato, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Comments from the Floor facilitated by Gareth Thomas

Interventions

· Paul Mitchell, Secretary General, International Council on Mining and Metals

· Simon Taylor, Director, Global Witness

· Emmy Hafild, Secretary General, Transparency International Indonesia

Morning Session 2: Implementing EITI

· Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Timor-Leste

· Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom

· Nasir el-Rufai, Minister for Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Comments from the Floor facilitated by Gareth Thomas

Interventions

· Prime Minister Hama Amadou, Niger

· Richard Paniguin, Head of Region for Russia, the Caspian, the Middle East and Africa, BP

· Mike Aaronson, Director General, Save the Children

· Archibishop Dom Kamwenho, CEAST, Angola

· Gonzalo Montenegro, Bolivian Ambassador, Bolivia

Afternoon Panel 1: Widening and Deepening Implementation

Comments from the Panel

· Introduction facilitated by: Xavier Darcos, Development Minister, France

· Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo-American plc.

· Vice-Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev, Kyrgyz Republic

· Andrew Natsios, Administrator, US Agency for International Development

· Andrew Swiger, Executive Vice President, ExxonMobil

· Peter Eigen, Chair, Transparency International

· Samir Sharifov, Director, State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan

Comments and Questions from the Floor

Interventions

· Michael Roy, Coordinator of French Platform for Publish What You Pay - Secours Catholique

· Jean Pierre Bemba Gombo, Vice President in charge of Economic and Financial Affairs, Democratic Republic of Congo

· Ela Oyana, Secretary of State for Planning, Equatorial Guinea

Afternoon Panel 2: The Future of EITI

Comments from the Panel

· Introduction facilitated by: Paul Boateng, Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury, United Kingdom

· Jean Lemierre, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

· Abbé Georges Loemba Ndende, Coordinateur Diocésain, Commission Justice et Paix, Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo

· Leigh Clifford, Chief Executive Officer, Rio Tinto

· Christine Sahadeo, Finance Minister, Trinidad and Tobago

· Yves-Louis Darricarrère, Executive Vice President, TOTAL

· Howard Carter, Chief Executive Officer, F&C Asset Management

· Sam Laidlaw, Executive Vice President, ChevronTexaco

· Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Interventions

· Christian Mounzeo, President & Coordinator – Publish What You Pay, Congo

· Olivier Loubiere, Areva

· Peter Grant, Managing Director, Woodside Energy

· Leiv Lunde, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

· Polycarpe Abah Abah, Minister of Finance, Cameroon

· Masnellyanti Hilman, Deputy Minister for Technical Infrastructure, Indonesia

· Anton Artemyev, Director, Kazakhstan Revenue Watch, Soros Foundation

· Emmanuel Kuyole, Programme Director, Integrated Social Development Centre, Ghana

· Marcos Manuel N’Dongo, CPDS-Convergencia para la Democracia Social,
Equatorial Guinea

· Mark Mullen, Transparency International, Georgia

Conference Close

Paul Boateng, Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury