Oxford Forum for International Development

 

Sunday, 20 February

Said Business School, Oxford    
09.15

10.00



10.10
Registration    

Welcome & Opening of the Day    

Keynote: “A question of growth? The Bribery Act”
Chandu Krishnan, Executive Director of Transparency International UK    

11.00

Workshop Slot 4: Business & Media in Development 
   
Charity with a business mind
Clare Woodcraft, Deputy Director of the Shell Foundation    
Business for Development
Alexis Waltz, Cards from Africa, and Tom Minney, CEO of Afrigrow    
Globalisation – for whom?

 Maggie Black, former editor of New Internationalist and Gilbert Achcar, SOAS
Media in
Development
Donald MacIntyre, Jerusalem Correspondent for the Independent and Ayo Johnson, director of Viewpoint Africa    

12.00







13.00



Panel: “Fair Trade – or can the markets do it?”
Philip Sigley, Chief Executive of the Federation of Cocoa Commerce
Barbara Crowther, Director of the Fairtrade Foundation
Mark Hayes, Fellow in Economics, University of Cambridge

The panel will be chaired by Jenna Nicholas, the Oxford Hub Social Entrepreneurship Coordinator   

Lunch & Networking 
   

14.30

Workshop Slot 5: Future Issues in Development  

Illicit Financial Flows: Kleptocrats & Tax Evaders
Dorcas Erskine, Head of Public Affairs, Action Aid and Alex Cobham, Policy Manager, Christian Aid    
Effective Campaigning on Climate Change
Clare Groves, Campaign Officer, Christian Aid    
Social Security in dev. countries
Stefan Dercon, Economist, Oxford University and Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, Lecturer at Latin America Centre, Oxford    
Ending Female Genital Mutilation
 
John Simister,
Researcher at SOAS    

15.30









17.00
“Wind of Change in the Middle East – 
moving the region towards a better future?”

Introductory remarks by HE Mr Hatem Atallah, Ambassador of Tunisia to the UK

followed by a panel including him and
Sharmine Narwani, commentary writer and political analyst covering the Middle East
Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, SOAS
Adam Berry, D. Phil. Student, Department for Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Vivian Ibrahim, Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS and member of United Egyptians

Closure of the OxFID 2011