Note to Correspondents

PANEL ON MANAGING GLOBALIZATION TO BE HELD ON 1 NOVEMBER

The need for better global economic governance will be the focus of a United Nations panel discussion on “Managing Globalization” on Friday, 1 November, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Conference Room 2.

The event -- organized by the Division for ECOSOC Support and Coordination in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs -- will feature:  Roberto Bissio, Coordinator, Social Watch network; Eveline Herfkens, the Secretary-General’s Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign and a former Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation; Ann Pettifor, Director of the Centre for International Finance and Governance at the New Economic Foundation and a

co-founder of the Jubilee 2000 Movement; and Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist magazine, co-author of “A Future Perfect:  the Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization”.

Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will moderate.  The event, presided over by Marco Antonio Suazo (Honduras), Chairman of the General Assembly’s Second Committee (Economic and Financial), will address enhancing global coherence, participation in global decision-making, the role of civil society in intergovernmental processes, and international terrorism.

Improving economic governance at all levels has become critical for maximizing all the benefits of globalization.  In spite of the advances made in developing a comprehensive framework for global cooperation for development, much work remains to be done to build a genuine consensus.  The panel discussion aims to provide a contribution, in conjunction with the debate on “Globalization and interdependence” taking place in the Second Committee.

Note:  For information, please contact Alberto Padova at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, tel. (212) 963-4759, e-mail:  padova@un.org.

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