Updated:  25 June 2004

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Upcoming Meetings and Events
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Please note that this list provides only partial information about the many meetings that take place at the OECD. Most meetings listed are closed to the public and mentioned only as a guide to current OECD activities. For a comprehensive current listing of the month's events, please click here.  For further information, please contact the Media Relations Division. The latest articles of the OECD Observer are available by clicking here.

June
26-28 Annual General Meeting of the Bank for International Settlements.  Basel, Switzerland.
28-29 High-level meeting on Steel, organised by the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
28-30 Short-term Economic Statistics, expert group meeting, organised by the OECD Statistics Directorate.
29 International Risk Governance Council, inaugural conference, held at the World Meteorological Organisation, with participation of the OECD Secretary-General.  Geneva, Switzerland.
30 OECD Environmental Strategy: 2004 Review of Progress, videoconference presentation of OECD work on environment, by Lorents Lorentsen, Director of the OECD Environment Directorate, 9-10 a.m., at the OECD Washington Centre.  Washington, D.C. USA.
30-1/7 OECD-MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Investment Steering Group, inaugural meeting organised by the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs.  Amman, Jordan.
30-1/7 Russian Corporate Governance Roundtable, organised by the corporate affairs division of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs.  Moscow, Russia.
30-2/7 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary meeting.  The FATF Annual Report will be presented at a news briefing on 2 July at 1.15 p.m.  (see below).
July
1-2 Annual Meeting of the Organizational and Institutional Gender Information Network, ORIGIN, jointly hosted by the European Space Agency, OECD and UNESCO. Paris, France.
2 1.15 p.m. -  news briefing to present Annual FATF Report.  Mr. Claes Norgren, FATF President, Mr. Jean-Louis Fort, future FATF President, and Mr. Patrick Moulette, FATF Executive Secretary, will discuss the highlights of the report. 
2-3 The Partnership Principle: New Forms of Governance in the 21st Century, 12th annual colloquium of the Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue. Participation of OECD.  Berlin, Germany.
5 Press briefing on the world economy, presented by OECD Chief Economist Jean-Philippe Cotis, at the OECD Tokyo Centre.  Tokyo, Japan.
5-6 DAC Network on Gender Equality, second meeting, organised by the Development Co-operation Directorate.
5-7 ADB/OECD anti-corruption conference for Asia and the Pacific, 5th steering group meeting organised by the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs.  Manila, the Philippines.
5-9 Environmental Culture Week, with OECD patronage. Genoa, Italy. 
7 Publication of the OECD Employment Outlook. 
7 African Economic Outlook publication presented, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., at the Salle des Nations, Tour Europe, La Défense, Paris. 
7-8 OECD Insurance Committee meets to discuss OECD work on insurance issues, including management of large-scale disasters, actuarial challenges, trends in reinsurance markets, private health insurance and terrorism insurance.  Organised by the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs.
7-9 UN Arab Regional Conference: Ten Years After Beijing: Call for peace.  Beirut, Lebanon.
8-9 Asia Pacific Bond Congress.  Hong Kong, China.
8-9 Tackling Regulatory Reform and Corruption: Concrete Steps to a New Environment for Private Investment in South East Europe, ministerial meeting organised by the Investment Compact for SEE and the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs.  Vienna, Austria.
8-9 The UN Millennium Project, high-level seminar organised by the Development Assistance Committee.
8-9 Aid Effectiveness and Donor Practices, working party meeting organised by the Development Assistance Committee.
9 Presentation of OECD work on agriculture. Moscow, Russia.
12-13 Financing Quality Higher Education in the People's Republic of China, meeting organised by the Education Directorate.  Beijing, China. 
12-13 Annual conference of the International Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors (INPRS), organised by the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs.
14-15 Fourth OECD Symposium on E-Government, meeting organised by the Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development.  Seoul, Korea.
15-16 Global Science Forum, meeting organised by the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
19-24 Official visit of the OECD Secretary-General to Japan.
25 Internationalisation of Higher Education in Latin-America, conference organised by the OECD Institute of Management for Higher Education.  Sao Paolo, Brazil.
August
16-20

World Water Week, annual symposium organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute. Stockholm, Sweden.

22-27 Libraries: Tools for Education and Development, World Library and Information Congress, organised by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.  Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
26-27 Communicating in Higher Education: Image and Reality, conference organised by the OECD Institute of Management for Higher Education. 
26-28 Global Demographic Change:  Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges, 28th Economic Policy Symposium of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, with participation of the OECD Secretary-General.  Jackson Hole, Wyoming, U.S.A.
27-31 Strategic management seminar (in Spanish and Portuguese) for university leaders in Latin America, organised by the OECD Institute of Management for Higher Education in collaboration with the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, Brazil. 
September
2-5 Human Movements and Immigration World Congress.  Barcelona, Spain.
5-8 School Bullying and Violence, international policy and research conference, jointly organised by the OECD Education Directorate, the Norwegian Ministry of Education, the Norwegian Board of Education and Stavanger University College.   Stavanger, Norway.
8-9 APEC High Level Conference on Structural Reform. Tokyo, Japan.
13-15 Choices and Responsibilities: Higher Education in the Knowledge Society, conference organised by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE), Education Directorate.
14-16 Data Protection and Privacy, annual conference organised by the Polish government, with participation of the OECD.  Wroclaw, Poland.
22-24 Entrepreneurship: contexts, locales, and values, 4th international conference of the International Entrepreneurship Forum, organised by the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED), the University of Essex and the University of Paris Dauphine.  Paris, France. 
27-28 E-Commerce to e-Economy : Strategies for the 21st Century, conference organised by Industry Canada.  Ottawa, Canada.
27-30 The non-observed economy for Western Balkan countries, workshop organised by the Statistics Directorate.  Participants will include national accountants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia.
28 Development Assistance Committee aid peer review of Italy.  News release.
28-30 BioJapan 2004.  Tokyo, Japan.
October
1-2 Promoting Policy Coherence for Development, a high-level workshop sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Participation of the OECD Secretary-General.  Washington, DC, USA.
4-5 Annual meetings of G10 Ministers, the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.  Washington, DC, USA.
4-7 Youth Employment Summit (YES): Mexico YES Campaign: evaluating global progress on youth employment. Hosted by the Government of Mexico.  Participation of OECD. Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico.
4-8 Annual debate of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. OECD participation.  Strasbourg, France.
6-9 European Health Forum: global health challenges, European approaches and responsibilities. Organised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and Women, with the support of ORF, and MSD.  Gastein, Austria.
7-8

Network of Senior Officials from Centres of Government:  using new tools for decision-making; impacts on information, communication and organisation.  Annual meeting organised by the Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development with the Turkish authorities.  Istanbul, Turkey.

11-13 World Knowledge Forum, annual forum exploring the challenges of a knowledge-based society, organised by Maeil Business Newspaper, with participation of the OECD Secretary-General.  Seoul, Korea.
25-26 Challenges and opportunities of developing broadband in rural and remote areas, international workshop held in the light of the OECD report “The Development of Broadband Access in Rural and Remote Areas”. Hosted by the Portuguese Government and organised by the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. Open to the media.  Porto, Portugal.
November
3-4

OECD Forum on Mexico to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Mexico’s adherence to the OECD. At the OECD Mexico Centre. Mexico City, Mexico.

11-12 Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Development and Climate Change, organised by the Environment Directorate.
17-25 3rd World Conservation Congress of the International Union for the Protection of Nature (IUCN). Bangkok, Thailand.

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UN Editors 40th Anniversary Meeting
Comparison of Household Savings Rates
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New OECD Studies on Agriculture Reforms, Policies and Outlook
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