Conference Draft Agenda
Budapest Marriott: March 26, 27, 28, 2002

Day One: Tuesday, March 26, 2002

Country Competitiveness

MODERATOR: Mr. Ken Lanza, Deputy Director,
Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition, USAID
Building the Competitiveness in Nations

8:30 Registration

9:00 Opening Remarks:
Mr. Bill Frej, Director,
Office of Market Transition, USAID

9:15 Dr. Garret FitzGerald,
Former Prime Minister of Ireland
"The Cetic Tiger: Why Ireland's Recent Growth Rate Has Been Three Times Higher than in the Rest of Europe"
Introduced by Mr. Kevin Murphy, President of J.E. Austin Associates, Inc.

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Mr. Kevin Murphy, President, J.E. Austin and Associates, Inc.
"Competitiveness, Strategic Development and Experiences in Southeast Europe"
Power Point Presentation

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 Mr. Howard Rosen
Former executive Director, Competitiveness Policy Council
"A Competitiveness Model: The Experience of the United States"

15:30 Coffee Break

15:45 Roundtable Discussion and Panel Session with all the Speakers:
Open-ended Q&A session on competitiveness issues with a regional focus

16:45 Day One Closing remarks
Mr. Ken Lanza, Deputy Director,
Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition, USAID

Day Two: Wednesday, March 27, 2002
_Morning

Country Competitiveness

MODERATOR: Mr. Kevin Murphy, President, J.E. Austin and Associates, Inc.

9:00 Dr. Andrei Tsyganov, Deputy Minister,
Ministry of Anti-Monopoly Policy and Business Development, Russian Federation
"Small Business Growth, Anti-Monopoly Policy, and Competitiveness in Russia"

9:45 Mr. Kasymbek Mambetov
Chief Secretary of the Special Representative of the President on Promoting Foreign Investment, Kyrgyz Republic
"Public Policy and Competitiveness: Kyrgyz Republic"

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Dr. Stanislav Sokolenko
President and CEO, UKRIMPEX Joint Stock Company
and
Mr. Wolfgang Price,
Honorary President, Podilya Pershyi NGO, and former consultant,
Ukrainian State and Regional Depertment of Economy
"Ukrainian Road to Competitiveness: Cluster Development in Western Ukraine"
Price Presentation
Sokolenko Presentation

11:30 Wrap Up and Panel Discussion:
All Speakers from Russia, Ukraine and Kyrgyz Republic
Open discussion focused on country competitiveness strategy formulations and implementation issues.

Day Two:
_Afternoon

Anti-Corruption and Corporate Governance

MODERATOR: Mr. Jerry Hyman, Director,
Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID

12:15 Lunch Speaker: Mr. Mats Isaksson,Economist and Head of the Corporate Affairs Division, OECD
"OECD Principles, and the Global Challenges of Corporate Governance"

13:30 Background Briefing:
Mr. Ian Byrne, Director, Business Development, Governance and Advisory Services, Standard & Poors
"Form and Substance: Corporate Governance Assessment of Companies"

14:15 Issue-Specific Briefing:
MODERATOR: Dr. John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, Center for International Private Enterprise
"Corporate Governance: An Antidote to Corruption"

Mr. Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Manager, Governance Finance and Regulation, World Bank Institute
Prevention as the First Step in Combating Corruption: Reforming economic policies, institutions and incentives

Mr. Miklos Marschall, Executive Director, Transparency International
The Private Sector and Fighting Corruption

15:30 Coffee Break

15:45 Mr. John Brandolino,
Director, Anticorruption and Governance Initiatives, United States Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)
"The View from the State Department: Developments in U.S. Government Policy on Anti-Corruption and Corporate Governance"

16:00 Breakout Session:
MODERATOR: Mr. Goeffrey Mazullo
Director, Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program -- A cooperative agreement between East-West Management Institute, Inc. (EWMI) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Country/region-based discussion groups to develop local action strategies. Groups will be challenged to identify how standards for increasing transparency, corporate governance and anti-corruption can be operationalized.

Discussion leaders: USAID Mission Officers

16:45 Breakout Session Reports:
Discussion groups present country-specific action strategies.

Day Three: Thursday, March 28

Integrating Policies on Competitiveness, Anti-Corruption and Corporate Governance

MODERATOR:
Mr. Scott Kleinberg
Private Enterprise Officer, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition, USAID

9:00 Keynote Speaker: Mr. Ivan Miklos, Deputy Prime Minister for Economy of the Slovak Republic
"Competitiveness, Transparency, and Public/Private Partnerships

Introduced by Ms. Paula Goddard, former USAID Mission Director, Slovakia.

9:15 Enhancing Corporate Governance and Anti-Corruption Initiatives Through Public Private Partnerships: A Panel Discussion with Reports from the Region
Moderator Mr. Andrew Wilson, Senior Program Officer, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Center for International Private Enterprise

Presenters:
Dr. Boris Begovic, Vice President, Center for Liberal Democratic Studies, and former Chief Economic Advisor to Miroljub Labu, Deputy Prime Minister, Yugoslavia
"Anti-Corruption Efforts and Serbia's Private Sector"

Dr. Igor Belikov, Director, Institute for Stock Market and Management and President, Russian Institute of Directors.
"Coalition Building to Improve Corporate Governance"

Ms. Despina Pascal, Romanian National Corporate Governance Task Force
"Corporate Governance Codes of Conduct"

Mr. Stanislav Vartanian, Investors Protection Association, Russia.
"Addressing the Supply Side of Corruption Through Corporate-Governance"

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Operational Strategies for Improved Corporate Governance
Ms. Natalie Jaresko, President and CEO Western NIS Enterprise Fund, Kiev, Ukraine Experiences, Lessons Learned at Enterprise Funds in Ukraine and Moldova
Operational Strategies for Improved Corporate Governance

11:30 Breakout Session:
MODERATOR:
Mr. Scott Kleinberg
Private Enterprise Officer, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition, USAID

Discussion groups to develop action strategies and identify next steps in developing public-private partnerships to enhance competitiveness through corporate governance and anti-corruption initiatives.
Discussion leaders: USAID Mission Officers

12:30 Lunch Speaker/Report from the Field:
Mr. Boyko Todorov, Coordinator, Southeast European Legal Development Initiative (SELDI) and Program Director, Center for the Study of Democracy
"Coalition 2000: A Case Study in Monitoring and Prevention of Corruption"

13:45 Breakout Session Reports:
Discussion groups present country-specific action strategies

14:30 Closing Remarks:
Mr. Jose Maria Figueres, Managing Director, World Economic Forum and former President of Costa Rica

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30-17:30 USAID In-house Implementation Session:

Breakout session for USAID Mission staff to strategize and operationalize best corporate governance and anti-corruption standards at the country-specific level. As cross-cutting reform initiatives, emphasis will be placed on utilizing existing institutions and local approaches.

Session Leaders:

Mr. Bill Frej, Director, Office of Market Transition, USAID
Mr. Jerry Hyman, Director, Eastern Europe Bureau/Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID

Facilitators:

Ms. Claudia J. Dumas, Senior Rule of Law Advisor, Europe and Eurasia Bureau//Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID

Ms. Beth Jones, Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor, Europe and Eurasia Bureau//Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID

Dr. Demir Yener, Senior Financial Markets Advisor, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition/Institutional and Legal Environmental Division, USAID
"Disclosure, Corporate Governance, Competitiveness and SME Access to Finance"

Mr. David Meyer, J.D., M.B.A., Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor, Office of Market Transition, USAID Bureau for Europe & Eurasia

Ms. Madalene O'Donnell, Anti-Corruption Specialist, Democracy and Governance Office, DCHA Bureau, USAID