Draft Agenda

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Day 1

5th June 2014

7:00am – 8:30am

Registration

8:30am – 10:00am

Opening Ceremony

 

Safety Briefing

 

National Anthem

 

Chair Introduction – Mr. Martin Franklin, Head of Department of Economics, UWI St Augustine

 

Greetings – Mr. Errol Simms, Dean  Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI St Augustine

 

Greetings  –Prof. Clement Sankat, Principal UWI St Augustine

 

Greetings –  Mr. Norman Christie,  President, bpTT

 

Greetings -  Ms. Heidi Wong – Deputy Permanent Secretary , Ministry of Energy   

 

Feature Speaker – Ms. Marinke van Riet, Publish What You Pay

 

Presentation of Prizes – Rebecca Gookool , Trade and Economic Development Unit  

10:00am – 10:30am

 

BREAK

10:30am – 12:03am

Session 1: THE ECONOMICS OF RESOURCE ECONOMIES – lead UWI

 

Chair – Professor Wayne Bertrand, UWI

 

Modeling Resource Economies  - Dr. Roger Hosein, Trade and Economic Development Unit

 

The Economics of Resource Economies: A Government’s Response  - Senator Dr. the Honourable Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Ministry of Planning   

 

The Economic of Resource Economies  - Mr. Conrad Enill, Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business  

 

Discussion

12:03pm – 12:48pm

LUNCH

12:48pm – 1:25pm

 

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: PUBLISH WHAT YOU PAY: HOW DOES IT WORK? – Ms. Jana Morgan, PWYP USA 

1:25pm – 2:55pm

Session 2: STATUS OF TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – lead Trinidad and Tobago Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative  (TEITI)

 

Chair – Mr Victor Hart, TTEITI

 

The EITI in the Context of Participatory Democracy and Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Trinidad and Tobago - Dr Jens Ulrich Poppens - TTEITI

 

Challenges to expanding EITI coverage in Trinidad and Tobago - Mr. Gregory Mc Guire , TTEITI

 

Overview of the TTEITI and the current status of the implementation of EITI in Trinidad and Tobago – Mrs.  Melanie Richards, TTEITI

 

Discussion

2:55pm – 3:52pm

 

Feature Presenter: TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN PROCUREMENT PRACTICES:  Mr. Ian Superville, Ministry of Energy  

 

Close of DAY 1

Day 2

6st June 2014

8:30am – 8:35am

 

Session 3: REVENUE MANAGEMENT AND TRANSPARENCY IN EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES – lead Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago

8:35am – 10:05am

 

Chair – Mr Roger Packer, Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago.

 

 

How should we measure the success of our oil and gas tax regime? -  Mr Joel Monty Pemberton,  Trinity Exploration and Production

 

Subsidies in the refining and petroleum marketing sector -  Mr Mado Bachan, Petrotrin

 

The economic contribution of the mid and downstream sector in Trinidad & Tobago, representative of the Point Lisas Energy Association.

 

Discussion

10:05am – 10:25am

BREAK

10:25am – 11:50am

Session 4:  CIVIL SOCIETY, TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY- lead Veni Apwann and the Rose Foundation

 

Chair – Mr. Ozzi Warwick – Joint Trade Union Movement

 

Civil Society and Localized Planning  - Ms. Karen Bart-Alexander, Karen Bart-Alexander & Associates

 

Civil Society and Revenue Allocation  - Mr. Deryck Murray, Transparency International Trinidad and Tobago Chapter

 

Social Monitoring  - Mr. Sterling Belgrove, Rose Foundation

 

Discussion

11:50pm – 12:35pm

LUNCH

12:35pm – 4:35pm

 

WORKSHOP: “Informing dialogue and enhancing accountability: accessing and using public information on extractives companies.” – Ms. Claire Woodside & Ms. Kady Seguin -PWYP Canada

4:35pm – 4:45pm

VOTE OF THANKS – Ms. Ashley McFarlane, Trade and Economic Development Unit  

 

CLOSE OF DAY 2

5:00pm – 7:30pm

Closing Cocktail Reception – POS Ballroom Prefunction room