PANEL DISCUSSION ON GLOBALIZATION AT HEADQUARTERS ON 10 NOVEMBER

Note to Correspondents

PANEL DISCUSSION ON GLOBALIZATION AT HEADQUARTERS ON 10 NOVEMBER

A panel discussion on globalization on Monday, 10 November, will feature Princeton University professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, Columbia University Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Washington-based researcher Manuel Orozco and Burkina Faso-based consultant Jean Pierre Ouedraogo.  The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Conference Room 2.

The panel discussion, part of the work of the General Assembly’s Second Committee, will be moderated by Second Committee Chairman Iftekhar Chowdhury (Bangladesh).

Mr. Krugman is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times.  He is the author or editor of over 20 books, including the recent The Great Unraveling.  In recognition of his work on trade, he received the 1991 John Bates Clark medal for the best American economist under the age of 40.

Mr. Bhagwati is André Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and University Professor at Columbia University.  He was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from 1991 to 1993, and served as Special Adviser to the United Nations on Globalization and External Adviser to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.(MIT) press recently published five volumes of his scientific writings and two of his public policy essays.

Manuel Orozco is project director on Central America for the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank.  He also teaches on Central America and the Caribbean at the United States Foreign Service Institute.  His most recent book is International Norms and Mobilization for Democracy.

Mr. Ouedraogo, Ligue des Consommateurs du Burkina Faso, is an independent consultant from Burkina Faso.  He has assisted the Government of Burkina Faso, most recently on cotton for the WTO ministerial negotiations in Cancún, where he was part of his country's delegation, as well as several international institutions and non-governmental organizations.

The panel discussion is organized by the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and is the last of a series of sessions on the economic and financial aspects of development.

Contact:  Edoardo Bellando, Department of Public Information, tel (212) 963-8275.

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