SPRING SEMINAR 1999 PROGRAMME

Economic Implications of Population Ageing in the ECE Region

Morning Session
10.00 hrs.
Session I:	The economic consequences of population ageing and the macroeconomics of pension reform
	Keynote speaker:
	- John EATWELL, *(Member of the House of Lords, Professor of Economics and President of Queen's College, Cambridge)*
	Discussants:
	- Colin GILLION, (Director, Social Security Dept., ILO) - Domenico Mario NUTI, (Professor, University of Rome "La Sapienza" and London Business School) - Tomas WEISS, (Deputy Head of Economics Division, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Bonn)

11.30 hrs.
Session II:	Pension reform in market economies
	Keynote speaker:
	- Lawrence THOMPSON, *(Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)*
	Discussants:
	- Johann K. BRUNNER, (Professor, University of Linz) - Joakim PALME, (Swedish Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm) - Andras UTHOFF, (Regional Adviser, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)

13.00 hrs.	Lunch break

Afternoon Session
15.30 hrs.
Session III:	Reforming pension systems in the transition economies: problems and policies within a broader programme of transformation
	Keynote speaker:
	- Maria AUGUSZTINOVICS, *(Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)*
	Discussants:
	- Jerzy HAUSNER, (Professor, Academy of Economic Science, Cracow) - Romas LAZUTKA, (Director, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Vilnius) - Paul WACHTEL, (Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University)

16.30 hrs.
Session IV:	Panel discussion: What are the implications for pension reforms of the global financial and economic crisis?
	Chairman:
	- Jean-Michel CHARPIN, (Commissaire, Commissariat Général du Plan, Paris)
	Panelists:
	- Jiri RUSNOK, (Deputy Minister of Labour, responsible for Social Insurance and Income Policy, Czech Republic) - Brigitte GRANVILLE, (Head, International Economics Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, and Centre for Advanced International Studies, Moscow) - Tatyana MALEVA, (Bureau of Economic Analysis, Moscow) - Daniel WYDLER, (Director, Banque Pictet et Cie., Geneva)