Subject: Presentation of the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2010 published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Speakers: Heiner Flassbeck - UNCTAD - Director - Division on Globalization and Development Strategies Alfredo Calcagno - UNCTAD - Economist - Division on Globalization and Development Strategies
Subject: Global and Regional Foreign Direct Investment Trends in 2009 (UNCTAD Global Investment Trend Monitor N°2) Speakers: James Zhan - UNCTAD - Director - Division on Investment and Enterprise Masataka Fujita - UNCTAD - Chief - Investment Trends and Issues Branch
World Malaria Report 2009 Dr. Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director-General; HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO Dr. Robert Newman, Director, Global Malaria Programme, WHO Mr. Alan Court, Senior Advisor to the United Nation's Secretary General's Envoy for Malaria, United Nations, New York Dr. Richard Steketee, Representative, Roll Back Malaria Partnership Mr. Jon Lidèn, Director of Communications, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Announcemenet of a significant development regarding the top-level domain name .post (dot.post). Edouard Dayan, UPU Director General Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO Massimo Sarmi, CEO, Poste Italiane
Launch of the "World of Work Report 2009 : The Global Jobs Crisis and Beyond" Raymond Torres, Director of the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies
How a stronger agreement in Copenhagen can help protect people from floods, droughts and storms? Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
(1) International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December) (2) Progress report on new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Mr. Mohammed Al-Tarawneh, Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Mr. Bacre Ndiaye, Director, OHCHR Human Rights Council and Treaties Division
