Wed, Mar 17 2021

• Official activities
  Panel 1: Health and the economy —a false dichotomy?
  10:00 am to 01:00 pm

  Moderator: Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Chief of the Social Development Division of ECLAC

  Opening remarks: Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

  • Joy St. John, Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
  • Alejandro Werner, Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • Blanca Margarita Ovelar de Duarte, National Senator of Paraguay and President of ParlAmericas
  • Mónica Jasis, focal point of the group on migrants and persons displaced by disasters or conflicts of the mechanism for civil society participation in the Sustainable Development Agenda and in the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development
  • Román Macaya, Chair of the Board of the Costa Rican Social Security Institute
  • Daniel Innerarity, Director of the Institute of Democratic Governance of Spain
  • Martha Delgado Peralta, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

  Alberto Arenas de Mesa
  Carissa F. Etienne - Opening Remarks for the Panel on - Health and the Economy: A false dichotomy?
  Joy St John
  Alejandro Werner
  Blanca Ovelar
  Román Macaya Hayes
  Daniel Innerarity
  Martha Delgado Peralta
• Official activities
  Statements by the delegations
  12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
• Recess
  01:00 pm to 02:00 pm
• Official activities
  Panel 2: Crisis, recovery and transformation in the decade of action for the Sustainable Development Goals
  02:00 pm to 05:00 pm

  Moderator: Mario Cimoli, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC

  • Cristina Gallach Figueras, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and for Ibero-America and the Caribbean of Spain
  •  Camillo Gonsalves, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning, Sustainable Development and Information Technology of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Chair of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)
  • André Lara Resende, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University
  • José Francisco Pacheco, Member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Costa Rica
  • Maurizio Bezzeccheri, Director for Latin America of Enel
  • Laura Becerra Pozos, deputy focal point of the NGO networks, groupings, organizations and platforms group of the mechanism for civil society participation in the Sustainable Development Agenda and in the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

  Mario Cimoli
  Cristina Gallach
  José Francisco Pacheco
  André Lara Resende
  Maurizio Bezzeccheri
  Laura Becerra
• Official activities
  Statements by the delegations
  04:00 pm to 05:00 pm