Agricultural Policies and Regional Integration in Central America

Description

Keynote Speaker:

Oscar Quesada, Regional Technical Coordinator, SECAC/FES

Panelists:

Gustavo Alejandro Idigoras, International Consultant, Ex negotiator of the Government of Argentina to the WTO and MERCOSUR

Santiago Perry, Executive director PBA, Coordinator Andean Dialogue of Rural Development, Colombia

Pedro Caldentey del Pozo, Researcher, ETEA Foundation for Development and Cooperation, Professor of Applied Economics at Loyola University Andalusia, Spain

Patrick Antoine, Chief Policy Advisor to the Government of Grenada, Grenada's Ambassador to CARICOM and to World Trade Organisation (WTO), Commissioner to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and Trade and Economic Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.

Moderator:

Joaquín Arias Segura, Specialist on Agricultural Policy, CAESPA, IICA Office in the USA, Washington, D.C.

On Twitter please follow @IICA_USA and hashtags #AgPolicy and #Post2015 for coverage of the event.

Program


Fecha - Hora	Actividad	Expositores
11:00am – 11:05am	Welcoming Remarks	Miguel García Winder, IICA Representative in the USA, Washington D.C.
11:05am – 11:10am	Introduction	Joaquín Arias Segura, Specialist on Agricultural Policy, CAESPA, IICA Office in the USA, Washington, D.C.
11:10am – 11:50am	Agricultural Policy and Regional Integration in Central America	Oscar Quesada, Regional Technical Coordinator, SECAC/FES, San José, Costa Rica
11:50am – 12:00pm	Comments regarding the process of integration in the Southern Cone	Gustavo Alejandro Idigoras, International Consultant, Ex negotiator of the Government of Argentina to the WTO and MERCOSUR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
12:00pm – 12:10pm	Comments regarding the process of Andean integration	Santiago Perry, Executive director PBA, Coordinator Andean Dialogue of Rural Development, Colombia
12:10pm – 12:20pm	Comments regarding the process of Central America	Pedro Caldentey del Pozo, Researcher, ETEA Foundation for Development and Cooperation, Professor of applied economics at Loyola University Andalusia, Spain
12:20pm – 12:30pm	Comments regarding the process of Caribbean integration	Patrick Antoine, Chief Policy Advisor to the Government of Grenada, Grenada's Ambassador to CARICOM and to World Trade Organisation (WTO), Commissioner to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and Trade and Economic Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.
12:30pm – 1:00pm	Questions & Answers