Panelists: Dr. Hafiz A. Pasha, Kamal Malhotra, Murray Gibbs, David Luke (all from UNDP)

14:30	Introduction
14:45	Making Global Trade Work for People: The Relationship between Trade and Human Development
	Dr. Hafiz A. Pasha   Kamal Malhotra: Making Global Trade Work For People   Murray Gibbs: UNDP Asia Trade Initiative Part 1, Part 2   David Luke: Trade and Human Development: UNDP Support in Southern Africa
16:15	Panel questions and discussion

Dr. Hafiz A. Pasha is a UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Pasha has a M.A. from Cambridge University, England, and a Ph.D from Stanford University, USA. He has 27 years of experience of research, teaching and public service. Dr. Pasha has held a number of important public appointments, which has involved high level inputs into the policy making process in Pakistan. He has served as the Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, with the status of a federal minister, Education Minister and Commerce Minister in three governments. Earlier, he was the Vice Chancellor/President of the University of Karachi, Dean and Director of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, and Research Professor and Director of the Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi. He has been the chairman or member of a large number of task forces, commissions or committees. He has published extensively in the fields of public finance, social development, and poverty.

Kamal Malhotra joined UNDP in 1999 and in his current capacity as UNDP's Senior Adviser on Inclusive Globalisation, heads the Bureau of Development Policy's trade policy work and team. He is currently leading a UNDP Trade and Sustainable Human Development project. Mr. Malhotra's approximately twenty years of development work experience include positions as Co-Founder and Co-Director (1995-1999) of Focus on the Global South, a leading policy research and advocacy organisation based at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. From 1988-1995, he was Director of the Overseas and Aboriginal Program of Community Aid Abroad (OXFAM Australia). He has degrees from the University of Delhi in development economics, from the Indian Institute of Management in business management and from Columbia University, New York in international and public affairs. Mr. Malhotra has published over 70 papers and articles on development policy issues and the multilateral system. In addition to being the lead author of the recent UNDP co-sponsored publication "Making Global Trade Work for People" (Earthscan, London and USA, 2003) he is also the co-author, co-editor or a major contributor to a number of recent books, including "Democratizing Global Governance" (Palgrave-Macmillan, UK and USA, 2002), "Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets"( Zed Press, London, 2000) and "Reimagining the Future: Towards Democratic Governance" (La Trobe University, Australia, 2000).

Murray Gibbs joined UNDP as Project Co-ordinator of the Asia Trade Initiative in 2002, following 27 years with UNCTAD, where his career had focussed on the analysis of trade issues, and on providing support to developing countries in trade negotiations. Among his activities in UNCTAD were pioneering analytical work in the area of trade in services, and on the international trading system, and co-ordinating a UNDP/UNCTAD project to support developing countries in the Uruguay Round. More recently, as head of the Trade Negotiations and Commercial Diplomacy Branch he managed UNCTAD's work since 1996 on the "positive agenda", reflected in the UNCTAD publication "Positive Agenda and Future Trade Negotiations "(2000). He has also been responsible for publications and various studies on such themes as trade in services, the evolution of the international trading system, negotiations on textiles and clothing, accession to WTO, trade agreements and petroleum and energy policies and energy and environmental services. Mr. Gibbs is a graduate of the University of Calgary, Canada

David Luke, Trade, Debt and Globalisation Advisor in the Southern Africa Sub-Regional Resource facility, joined UNDP in 2001. Prior to assuming this post, he was a trade policy analyst in the Organisation for African Unity, and adviser to African delegations to the WTO in Geneva. In these capacities he co-ordinated preparation of African countries for the Singapore, Geneva, Seattle and Doha ministerial Conferences. Earlier in his career, he taught political economy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Dr. Luke was educated at the London School of Economics (BSc.1977, MSc. 1978) and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (Phd, 1982). He has published widely on African trade policy issues.