Washington Events and Exhibits: 2008

22 December 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Economic Survey of Korea
Presentation by Randall Jones. Robert Dohner, US Department of the Treasury, and Soojong Kwak, Samsung Economic Research Institute, will provide comments. Co-sponsored by the Asia Policy Point.
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09 December 2008
OECD Congressional Seminar: US Economic Survey
This seminar will offer two sessions based on the findings of the OECD's new US Economic Survey: Overcoming the Financial Crisis and Financing Health Care: Lessons from Home and Abroad. OECD Deputy Secretary-General Pier Carlo Padoan and Robert Ford, Deputy Director of OECD Country Studies, will present.
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25 November 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: World Energy Outlook 2008 - Energy Projections to 2030
Presentation by Ambassador Richard Jones, Deputy Executive Director of the IEA, and Dr. Fatih Birol, Chief Economist and Head of the Economic Analysis Division at the IEA.
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25 September 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Multinational Companies and the Impact on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Presentation made by Stefano Scarpetta, Head of the OECD Employment Policy and Analysis Division. David A. Smith, House Financial Services Committee, and Franck Wiebe, Millennium Challenge Corporation, will provide comments.
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22 September 2008
OECD Congressional Lunch Briefing: Anti-Bribery Convention
Presentation made by Nicola Bonucci, OECD Director of Legal Affairs.
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10 September 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Nuclear Energy Outlook
Presentation made by Luis Echávarri, Director General of the Nuclear Energy Agency, and Janice Dunn Lee, Deputy Director General, Nuclear Energy Agency. John Jimison, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, will provide comments. Ambassador Connie Morella will moderate.
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24 June 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Energy Technology Pathways to Achieving Climate Change Goals
Presentation made by Neil Hirst, Director for Energy Technology and R&D at the International Energy Agency. Louis Finkel, House Committee on Science and Technology, Director of Policy and Outreach, will provide comments.
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28 May 2008
The Brookings Institution hosts: Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
Presentation made by Dr. Angus Maddison.
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22 May 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: African Economic Outlook 2008
Presentation made by the OECD Development Center. Event will be chaired by Congressman Charles B. Rangel and co-chaired by Congressman Donald M. Payne.
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20 May 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Web 2.0 and Statistics - A great opportunity or a serious threat?
Presentation by OECD Chief Economist, Enrico Giovannini. Jonathan Palmer, IMF Chief information Officer, will provide comments.
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07 May 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Financial Education - Helping Households Shoulder Financial Responsibility
Presentation by Ambassador Christopher Egan, US Mission to the OECD, and Carolyn Ervin, OECD Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. Jason Alderman, Director of Financial Education at Visa, will provide comments.
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05 May 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: OECD Developing Global Strategies for Combating Identity Theft
Presentation by Peter Avery, OECD Principal Administrator for Consumer Policy. Michael Jenkin of Industry Canada and Betsy Broder, FTC, will provide comments.
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01 May 2008
OECD DAC Aid Statistics Training Session
Yasmin Ahmad and Marc Tocatlian of the OECD's Development Cooperation Directorate will provide a training session on OECD Aid Statistics, including a live demonstration of OECD.STAT as well as the Statistical Annex of the Development Co-operation Report 2007 on SourceOECD.
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16 April 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Tax Expenditures in OECD Countries
Introduction by Barry Anderson, Head of OECD Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division. Presentation by Joseph J. Minarik, Committee for Economic Development. Diane Lim Rogers, Chief Economist at the House Budget Committee, will provide comments.
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11 April 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: New Policy Guidance for Investments by Sovereign Wealth Funds
Presentation by Carolyn Ervin, OECD Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. David Marchick, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs at The Carlyle Group, will provide comments.
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11 April 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Economic Survey of Japan
Presentation by Randall Jones, OECD Economics Department. Edward J. Lincoln, Center for Japan-US Economic and Business Studies at NYU, will moderate and provide comments.
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08 April 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Current Issues in International Taxation - The OECD's Role
Presentation by Pascal Saint-Aman and Mary Bennett, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Edward Kleinbard, Joint Committee on Taxation, will moderate and provide comments.
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20 March 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Re-Regulating Financial Markets - The Views of Labor in the OECD
Presentation by John Evans, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD. Discussants David A. Smith, House Financial Services Committee, and Russell L. Smith, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, will provide comments.
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05 March 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Going for Growth 2008
Presentation by Jørgen Elmeskov, OECD Acting Chief Economist. Discussant Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office Director, will provide comments.
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28 February 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Pension Reform and Longer Life Expectancy
Presentation by Edward Whitehouse, OECD Social Policy Division. Discussant Sandy Mackenzie, AARP, will provide comments.
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21 February 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Going Dutch - A way to build sustainable support for disabled workers
Presentation by OECD Deputy Secretary-General Aart de Geus. Discussant Richard V. Burkhauser will provide comments.
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15 February 2008
OECD Lunch Briefing: IEA Review of US Energy Policies
Presentation by Andreas Biermann, IEA Country Studies Division. Jeff Skeer, US Department of Energy, will provide comments.
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08 February 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Lessons from PISA
Presentation by Andreas Schleicher, OECD Directorate for Education. Discussant Grover J. Whitehurst, Institute of Education Sciences, will provide comments.
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07 February 2008
OECD Breakfast Series with Migration Policy Institute: Policies to Manage Migration
Presentation by Georges Lemaitre, OECD International Migration Specialist. Discussant Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute, will provide comments.
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31 January 2008
OECD Breakfast Series: Broadband: What works around the world?
Presentation by Taylor Reynolds, OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy. Discussants Eric T. Werner, NTIA, and Dennis Weller, Verizon, will provide comments.
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