Washington Events and Exhibits 2006:

20 November 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
Presentation by Charles Oman, Senior Economist, Institutions & Governance, OECD Development Center. Discussants are Nancy Zucker Boswell, Director, Transparency International USA and John Sullivan, Executive Director, Center for International Private Enterprise. More...

15 November 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Information Technology Outlook 2006: US Release - Videoconference
Presentations by Graham Vickery, Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, and Desirée van Welsum from the OECD Information, Computer and Communications Policy Division. More...

14 November 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Long-Term Budgeting: Can it Help Governments Address the Aging Problem?
Presentation by Barry Anderson, Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division at the Public Governance and Territorial Development Service of the OECD; Discussants are Donald Marron, Director (Acting) of the Congressional Budget Office and Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, New America Foundation. More...

02 November 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Young Drivers: The Road to Safety - Videoconference
Presentation by Colin Stacey from the Joint OECD/ECMT Transport Research Center. Discussant is Brian McLaughlin, Senior Associate Administrator, Traffic Injury Control, US Department of Transportation. More...

26 October 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Promoting Economic Growth and Development: The Policy Framework for Investment
Presentation by Rainer Geiger, OECD Deputy Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs; moderated by Wes Scholz, Office of Investment Affairs, US Department of State; and R. Michael Gadbaw, General Electric Co. as discussant. More...

19 October 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: New OECD Statistical Tools for Economic Analysis
Presentation by Enrico Giovannini OECD Chief Statistician and Director of the Statistics Directorate. More...

05 October 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Policies for Innovation and Growth Entrepreneurship
Moderated by Rohit K. Shukla, Founder and CEO, Larta Institute; presentation by Marie-Florence Estimé, Deputy Director for OECD Center for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development and discussant is Tony Stanco, Director of the Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization. More...

29 September 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Promoting Pro-Poor Growth
Presentation by Richard Manning, Chair of OECD Development Assistance Committee with an introduction by James T. Smith, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID. More...

12 September 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Education at a Glance 2006
Presentation by Barbara Ischinger, OECD Director for Education; Discussant is Betsy Brand, Director of the American Youth Policy Forum. More...

10-12 September 2006 -
National Association for Business Economics - NABE Annual Meeting in Boston MA
OECD exhibits in booth #14 key publications on the information economy, global investment and business. More...

11 July 2006 - Washington Event
OECD Breakfast Series: Economic Survey of Germany, 2006 - Videoconference
Presentations by Eckhard Wurzel, Senior Economist, OECD Economics Department; Discussant is Jackson Janes, Executive Director, AICGS. More...

27 June 2006 - Washington Event
OECD Breakfast Series: International Migration Outlook - Videoconference
Presentations by John Martin, OECD Director for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs, and Georges Lemaitre, International Migration Specialist, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs. More...

25-27 June 2006 -
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2006 in Seattle, Washington
OECD exhibits in booth #415 OECD key publications on health and demonstrates the newest edition of OECD Health Data. More...

16 June 2006 - Washington Event
OECD Breakfast Series: International Steel Talks
Moderator is Terrence Straub, Senior Vice President, US Steel Corporation; Presentation by Wolfgang Hubner, Head of OECD Structural Policy Division/Steel Unit; Discussant is Joseph Spetrini, Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Department of Commerce. More...

14 June 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: OECD Investment Policy Review: China Open Policies Towards Mergers and Acquisitions
Presentation by Ken Davies, Senior Economist, Investment Division of OECD; Disccussant is Yee Wah Chin, Senior Counsel, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. More...

11-13 June 2006 -
Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD
OECD representatives exhibit Key Publications and demonstrate SourceOECD in booth #506. More...

06 June 2006
OECD Breakfast Series with Ambassador Constance Morella: High Agricultural Support and the Doha Round Moderator: Representative Jim Kolbe US House of Representatives (R-AZ); Presentations by Ambassador Constance A. Morella US Permanent Representative to the OECD; Stefan Tangermann OECD Director of Agriculture; James Murphy Jr., Assistant US Trade Representative for Agricultural Affairs, as well as Gregg Young, USDA Director Multi-Lateral Trade Negotiations. More...

05-06 June 2006
Joint OECD/US Business Conference on OECD Initiatives in International Taxation: Looking Ahead - Washington, DC
The event provided an opportunity for US business representatives and tax professionals to obtain the most up-to-date information on significant international tax projects currently underway at the OECD. More...
See also: BNA Daily Tax Report, 07 June 2006 - Excerpt on Tax Policy (PDF 64kb)

23-26 May 2006 -
IASSIST - International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology - Annual Conference in Ann Arbor, MI
The OECD will demonstrate SourceOECD during a session on Thursday, 25th of May 2006. More...

24 May 2006
Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible - Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers
Discussion with Javier Santiso, Deputy Director and Chief Development Economist, OECD Development Centre. This even is organized by the Center for International Private Enterprise. Read the Announcement.

22 May 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: OECD: The Outlook for Africa
Presentation by Javier Santiso, Deputy Director of the OECD Development Center and Céline Kauffman, Economist at the OECD Development Center, African Economic Outlook. Discussant will be Antoine van Agtmael, President, Emerging Markets Management, L.L.C. More...

15 May 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: OECD: Where Immigrant Students Succeed A Comparative Review of Performance and Engagement from PISA 2003
Presentation by Gayle Christensen, Lead Author and Research Associate, Urban Institute. More...

04-06 May 2006
American Bar Association - Section on Taxation 2006 May Meeting in Washington DC
Jeffrey Owens, Director of the Centre of Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD will present OECD's Current Tax Agenda (Presentation - PDF 495kb). More...

20 April 2006
Panel Discussion: Investment Policy Reforms in the Middle East North Africa Region
Moderated by Donald J. Johnston, Secretary General of the OECD. Panelists will be H.E. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment - Arab Republic of Egypt, H.E. Karim Kawar - Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Lisa Schroeter - Dow Chemical, and Michael Gadbaw - Vice President of International Law and Policy, General Electric Co. More...

31 March 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: OECD Factbook 2006: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics – Videoconference
Presentation by Enrico Giovannini, OECD Chief Statistician and Head of the OECD Statistics Directorate.
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02 March 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Current Process Topics in International Budgeting
Presentation by Barry Anderson, Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division at the Public Governance and Territorial Development Service of the OECD. Moderator was Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL); discussant was Donald Marron, Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office. More...

28 February 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Decoupling and Beyond: The Way Forward for Agricultural Policies?
Presentation by Stefan Tangermann, Head of the OECD Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries. Discussant was Jean-Marc Trarieux, Agricultural Attaché (First Secretary), Delegation of the European Commission to the US. More...

15 February 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Illegal Migration: Movements and Policies
Presentation by George Lemaitre, International Migration Specialist, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs. More...

10 February 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: OECD Assessment of the Hong Kong Talks
Presentation by Jean-Marie Metzger, OECD Director for Trade. Discussant was Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics. More...

09 February 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Going for Growth 2006
Presentation by Jean-Philippe Cotis, Chief Economist and Head of the Economics Department. Moderator was Chris Frenze, Executive Director, US Congress Joint Economic Committee and Discussant Kevin Hassett, Director of the Economic Policy Studies Group, American Enterprise Institute. More...

26 January 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Eco-Friendly Agriculture: Promoting Responsible Agricultural Policies in the OECD
Presentation by Wilfrid Legg, OECD Agriculture Directorate. Discussant was Marca Weinberg, US Department of Agriculture. More...

22-26 January 2006 -
85th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The OECD/ECMT displayed recent publications on transport issues in booth 1513. More information...

19 January 2006
OECD Breakfast Series: Live Longer, Work Longer: Older Workers Synthesis Report
Presentation by Raymond Torres, OECD Employment Analysis and Policy Division; Discussant was Sara Rix, Senior Policy Advisor, AARP. More...

10 January 2006
OECD Breakfast Series with US Ambassador to the OECD Constance A. Morella: The OECD in the 21st Century: A Catalyst for Global Economic Growth
Discussant will be Ambassador Alan Larson, Senior Advisor, Covington & Burling. More...

06-08 January 2006 -
Allied Social Science Association - ASSA/AEA Annual Meeting 2006 in Boston, MA. The OECD will display recent titles and demonstrate SourceOECD in Booth 213. More information...

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