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FRIDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER
08:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 11:00 Opening Session: Opening Address by Mr. Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General

Video taped statement by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations

Keynote Address by Mr. Pascal Couchepin, Minister for Economic Affairs, Switzerland

Keynote Address by Mr. Ashraf Tabani, Chairman, Seri Sugar Mills & President, International Organization of Employers

Keynote Address by Ms. Angeline Low, CEO, Ken Resources Pty Ltd

Keynote Address by Lord Bill Brett, Chairman of the Workers' Group of the Governing Body of the ILO

11:00 - 11:30 BREAK
11:30 - 12:30 Session 1:The Challenge of the World Ahead: Mr. Charles Handy
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH - Luncheon address by Mr. Risto Penttilä Director & Member of Executive Board, World Economic Forum
14:00 - 18:00 Parallel Sessions:
2A - Human Resource-based Competitive Strategies 2B - Corporate Citizenship and Social Initiatives 2C - Tapping the Employment Potential of Small Business
Moderator: Professor Paul Evans, INSEAD Moderator: Mr. Robert Taylor, Employment Editor, Financial Times Moderator: Ms. Susana Pinilla Cisneros, President, Institute for the Development of the Informal Sector, IDESI, Peru
Manpower Inc., Mr. Jeff Joerres, CEO Professor Thomas Kochan, MIT European Roundtable of Industrialists (ERT), Mrs. Regina Matthijsen, responsible for Industrial Relations & Social Policy, Philips International B.V.
Motorola, Mr. Jerry Kline, Vice President, Global Staffing Mr. James Baker, Director, Multinational Division, ICFTU Northern Business Centre, U.K.,

Ms. Maureen Foers, Chief Executive

Grupo Desc-Sector Girsa, Mexico,

Sr. Pedro Pablo Juarez Vallejo/ Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria Petroquímica, Carboquímica,

Sr, Issac Maya Perez, Secretario de Finanzas

Sr. G. Muñoz Mosqueda, Secretario General

International Organization of Employers (IOE), Mr. Rolf Thüsing, Executive Vice-President Association for Support to Women Entrepreneurs (ASAFE), Cameroon, Ms. Gisèle Yitamben, Executive Secretary
South African Breweries, Mr. Johann Nel, HR Director Chilean Employers' Confederation (CPC), Sr. Walter Riesco Salvo, President
Arthur Andersen; Mr. Junichi Yasutaka, Director, Japanese Human Capital Services Tata Sons Ltd, Mr. Deshmukh, Director
Danone, Mr. B. Giraud, Director, Danone Initiatives/ International Union of Foodworkers, Mr. Ron Oswald, General Secretary TUAC, Mr. John Evans, General Secretary
18:15 -19:00 Presentation by Mr. Nobuo Tateisi, Chairman, OMRON Corporation, on corporate citizenship, followed by a Cocktail Reception hosted by Mr. Tateisi.
SATURDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER
09:00 - 12:00 Reporting Back, Synthesis and Discussion

  • Reporting back from technical sessions 2 (A, B & C)
  • Panel and plenary discussion (Mr. Björn Stigson, Executive Director, WBCSD, Mr. Maquieira, Chairman PrepCom, Mr. Rolf Thüsing, Executive Vice President IOE & Lord Bill Brett, Chairman of the Workers' Group of the Governing Body of the ILO

Concluding remarks by Mr. Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General, Mr. Göran Hultin, Executive Director responsible for the Employment Sector and Mr. Klaas George de Vries, Minister for Social Affairs and Employment, Netherlands..


Updated by GT. Approved by HH. Last update: 29 March 1999.