2015

European Year
for Development

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Brainstorming on challenges
for International Cooperation
and Development

13.03.2015
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Meeting to be conducted under Chatham House rules

Working language: English

AGENDA
8:30 - 9:00
Welcome coffee
9:00 - 9:03
Welcome by Commissioner Mimica
9:03 - 9:15 Introduction by the Moderator for the day on the functioning modalities
of the Brainstorming - Ms Shada Islam, Director of Policy at Friends of Europe
9:15 - 10:45

THEME: Gender

Keynote speakers
Prof. Gary Barker
Phd, leading voice on engaging men and boys in achieving gender equality and ending violence against women
and International Director and Founder of Promundo (international NGO that promotes gender justice).
Prof. Sylvia Walby
Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University and UNESCO Chair on Gender Research.
Questions to be addressed
Why has there been such a slow progress on gender equality?
Does mainstreaming work?
What could be done better?
Are there any sector specific proposals: e.g. gender in agriculture, in good governance,
in energy, in the right to have property or to start a business etc.?
Open discussion
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 13:00 THEME: Inequalities
Keynote speaker
Ms. Claire Kumar
Development Consultant and Author of the report Africa Rising: Inequalities and the essential role of fair taxation.
Questions to be addressed
Key findings of the recently published report Africa Rising: Inequalities and the essential role of fair taxation report.
Other forms of inequalities, apart from financial, e.g. access to education, right to vote etc, and how development
cooperation should address these issues.
Open discussion
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

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14:30 - 17:00 AFTERNOON SESSION - TWO THEMES: Security and Migration

Discussants

Keynote speakers on Security

Mr. Jose Manuel Briosa e Gala

Special Advisor to Commissioner Mimica, European Commission
Dr. Giovanni Grevi
Director, FRIDE, a European Think Tank for Global Action
Dr. Patrick Guillaumont
President of Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Dveloppement International (Ferdi)
and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auvergne
Mr. Geert Laporte
Deputy Director of the European Centre for Development Policy Management
Dr. Frank La Rue
ex UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression,
Nobel prize nominee
Mr. Simon Maxwell
Senior Research Associate of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Prof. Dr Dirk Messner
Director, DIE (German Development Institute)
Prof. Finn Tarp
Director of the UN University in Helsinki
Dr. Kevin Watkins
Director, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Dr. Nazila Ghanea

Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford
Prof. James Gow
Professor of International Peace and Security, Department of War Studies, Kings College, London
Questions to be addressed
How to address marginalisation/radicalisation?
How to make social inclusion more effective?
The role of cultural diplomacy and better understanding between cultures?
The role of the media to promote peaceful societies?
Keynote speakers on Migration
Dr. Melissa Siegel
Head Migration Studies Training & Research Projects, Associate Professor
Senior Researcher, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
UNU-MERIT
Prof. Ivan Martn
Professor, Migration Policy Centre, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies,
European University Institute - Florence
Questions to be addressed
How do developments in the South effect migration to the North (and vice versa)?
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 ow does the impact of South-South migration on development (positive and negative impacts,
ways to maximise the positive ones) manifest itself, trends and how development cooperation
should address these issues?
Open discussion
17:00 - 17:30 Conclusions

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Mr. Commissioner Neven MIMICA

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9:03 - 9:15

INTRODUCTION

Commissioner Mimica Cabinet

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Mme. Irena ANDRASSY
Mme. Maud ARNOULD
Mr. Paolo BERIZZI
Mme. Maria-Myrto KANELLOPOULOU
Mr. Denis AJO

Ms. Shada Islam

Shada Islam is responsible for policy oversight of Friends of Europes initiatives, activities and
publications. She has special responsibility for the Asia Programme and for the Development
Policy Forum which represents a coalition of leading international cooperation agencies which
engage in regular policy debates, conferences and briefings on relevant and topical related
to development. Shada is the former Europe correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic
Review and has also worked extensively for the BBC and DPA, the German wire service, on
development questions including relations between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific
(ACP) states as well as on world trade, including the Doha Round. Shada continues to write on
EU foreign and security policy, EU-Asia relations and trade and development issues for leading
Asian, European and international publications.

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Deputy Director General, Policy and Thematic Coordination
Assistant to Deputy Director General, Policy and Thematic Coordination
Deputy Director General, Geographic Coordination
Assistant to Deputy Director General, Geographic Coordination
Principal Advisor, Outreach in development
Director, DEVCO A, EU Development Policy
Director, DEVCO B, Human and Society Development
Director DEVCO.C Sustainable Growth and Development
Director DEVCO.D East and Southern Africa and ACP Coordination
Director DEVCO.E West and Central Africa
Director DEVCO.G Latin America and Caribbean
Director DEVCO.H Asia, Central Asia, Middle East/Gulf and Pacific
Director DEVCO.R Resources in Headquarters and in Delegations

M. Fernando FRUTUOSO DE MELO

Mme. Agnieszka SKURATOWICZ
Mr. Klaus RUDISCHHAUSER
Mme. Aurelie GODEFROY
M. Marcus CORNARO
Mme. Sarah RINALDI
Mme. Androulla KAMINARA
M. Gustavo MARTIN PRADA
Mme. Lotte KNUDSEN
M. Roberto RIDOLFI
M. Koen DOENS
Mme. Carla MONTESI
Mme. Jolita BUTKEVICIENE
M. Pierre AMILHAT
M. Luc BAGUR

HRVP Mogherini Cabinet European External Action Service

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Mr. Stefano MANSERVISI

Mr. Felix FERNANDEZ-SHAW

Commissioner Hahn Cabinet

Directorate General European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations (NEAR)
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Commissioner Stylianides Cabinet
European Commissions Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO)
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Mrs. ZAMBARTA Myrto

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European Political Strategy Centre

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Mrs. Sonia NETO

9:15 - 10:45

THEME: Gender

Prof. Gary Barker

Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading voice on engaging men and boys in gender equality and
ending violence against women. He is International Director and founder of Promundo, an
international NGO with offices in Brazil, Rwanda, Portugal and the US that works nationally
and globally in engaging men and boys for gender equality. He has led research and program
development with men and boys in the Balkans, Brazil, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central
America, the Caribbean and the US, including in post-conflict settings. He is co-chair and cofounder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 400 NGOs and UN agencies working
to engage men and boys in gender equality, and a member of the UN Secretary Generals
Mens Leaders Network to end violence against women. He holds a research appointment at
the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He coordinates the International
Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), the largest study of its kind on men and gender equality.
Prof. Sylvia Walby
S ylvia Walby is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research,
Lancaster University, UK. She researches on a wide range of issues concerning gender
equality, including the economic crisis, gender mainstreaming, and gender-based violence.
She is currently working on a project on the gender dimension of trafficking for the European
Commission, and has recently researched the cost of gender based violence for the European
Institute for Gender Equality. Recent books include: Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity
and Contested Modernities (Sage 2009) and The Future of Feminism (Polity 2011). Her next
book is the jointly authored Stopping Rape: Towards a Comprehensive Policy (forthcoming
Policy Press 2015), which draws on work for the European Parliament. This will be followed
by Crisis for Polity Press (forthcoming 2015). Her web-site is: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/
sociology/profiles/Sylvia-Walby

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Ms. Claire Kumar
Claire has worked for almost 20 years in development. Most of her experience has been in
Latin America and the Caribbean before moving to Rwanda several years ago. She has worked
for a range of international NGOs including Traidcraft where she worked as a Market Access
Advisor supporting small businesses and Christian Aid where she was economic policy advisor
for the Latin America team for 7 years. More recently Claire has been working as a freelance
consultant. Her work spans both social and economic policy issues with clients ranging from
international NGOs, to UNICEF and various Rwandan ministries. She has published on a broad
range of subjects including private sector development, inequality and taxation issues. Recent
projects have included working with Tax Justice Network-Africa on their tax and inequality
agenda as well as working with Transparency and Accountability Initiative - a collaborative of
donors on a global scoping study of funding opportunities related to tax and development. She is currently working
on a research project with Save the Children looking at fiscal policy in Rwanda and particularly at how domestic
resource mobilisation is supporting investment in social sectors in the country.
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Dr. Nazila Ghanea
 r Nazila Ghanea is an Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University
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of Oxford and serves as a member of the OSCE Panel of Experts on freedom of religion or belief.
She serves on the Board of Governors of the Universal Rights Group and is an Associate Director
of Oxford Human Rights Hub. She has authored, co-authored and edited a number of academic
and UN publications including: Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality: Britain in Global
Contexts and Human Rights, the UN and the Bahs in Iran. She is co-author, along with Heiner
Bielefeldt and Michael Wiener, of a forthcoming Oxford University Press monograph and
recently completed a research grant looking at the domestic effects of UN treaty ratification on
the member states of the GCC.
Prof. James Gow
James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security and Co-Director of the War Crimes
Research Group at Kings College London, where he has been since 1990. He is a non-resident
scholar with the Liechtenstein Institute, Princeton University and previously lectured in
European Studies at the University of Hatfield. In the 1990s, he led several EC-funded projects on
security and democracy. Between 1994 and 1998, he served as an expert advisor and an expert
witness for the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, where he was the first ever witness at an international criminal tribunal, and has
since returned as a witness. He has also served as an Expert Advisor to the UK Secretary of State
for Defence and contributed to three strategic and security reviews. Professor Gow has held
visiting positions at, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.,
Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Sheffield. His numerous publications include War and
War Crimes; Militancy and Violence in West Africa; Prosecuting War Crimes: Lessons and Legacies of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; and Security, Democracy and War Crimes (as co-author) all in 2013.

His current research focuses on war crimes; on the challenges scientific and technological innovation to international
law, co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory; on
reconciliation; and on political community. In 2012, Professor Gow won a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship
for the period 2013-2016.
Dr. Melissa Siegel
Dr. Melissa Siegel currently works as an Associate Professor and Head of Migration Studies at
the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT where she heads the Migration
and Development research group of UNU-MERIT and the Migration and Development research
theme of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE).
She currently holds positions as a Research Associate at the Center on Migration, Policy and
Society (COMPAS) and an Associated Researchers at the International Migration Institute (IMI)
at the University of Oxford. She manages several migration research projects, coordinates the
Migration Studies Specialization and Migration Management Diploma Program while lecturing
and supervising Bachelors, Masters and PhD students. She has worked on or headed projects
for Governments, International Organizations and NGOs such as the Dutch Ministry of Social
Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Finance, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dutch Ministry of Interior, the IOM, UNHCR,
ILO, GIZ, Oxfam Novib and others. She is also regularly involved in migration-related trainings for Governments and
International Organizations (i.e. UNICEF, UNRWA, EIPA, Dutch Government, Iranian Government) as well as teaching
in the United States, Malaysia, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Suriname. She previously worked for Utrecht School of
Economics and has held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
and at the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford. She has several publications in the area of
migration studies mainly focused on the causes and consequences of migration with a strong focus on migration and
development issues.
Prof. Ivn Martn
Ivn Martn is economist. He is Professor at the Migration Policy Centre of the European
University Institute, where he is Key Expert on Labour Migration in the framework of the ETEM
V Project (External Technical Expertise on Migration to DG DEVCO). Formerly, he has been
Senior Research Fellow at CIDOB in Barcelona (2014), Associate Research Fellow at the Instituto
Complutense de Estudios Internacionales in Madrid (2008-2013), Research Administrator at
the College of Europe (Natolin, Poland) (2010-2011), Director of the Socio-Economic Forum
of Casa rabe (Arab House) in Spain (2006-2008) and Associate Professor at the Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid (2002-2006). He has coordinated several international research projects
and since 2010 he has worked as consultant on labour migration and youth employment
for the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization, the
European Training Foundation, the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures and the Union for the
Mediterranean Secretariat, mainly in Southern Mediterranean Countries and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Mr. Jos Manuel Briosa e Gala

Dr. Patrick Guillaumont

Mr. Jos Manuel Briosa e Gala is a Portuguese lawyer who holds post-graduate Masters
Degrees in Philosophy and in Management at University of Lisbon. Mr. Briosa e Gala was
Secretary of State for Cooperation responsible for the development cooperation policy and
humanitarian assistance of Portugal from 1992 to 1995. At national level he was also in charge
of the Portuguese foreign policy regarding the African continent. In this context he was also
intensively involved in the peace processes in Angola and Mozambique, given Portugals
engagement as a diplomatic observer under the auspices of the United Nations. Mr. Briosa e
Gala also represented his country in key international development conferences such as the
Cairo UN Conference on Population and Development and the World Conference on Women
in Beijing. In April 2007, Mr. Briosa e Gala was appointed by the President of the European
Commission, Mr. Jos Manuel Barroso, as his Special Advisor and Personal Representative for Africa in the Africa
Partnership Forum. From 2011 to 2014 he was board member of African Legal Support Facility (hosted at African
Development Bank)

Patrick Guillaumont, President of the Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le
Dveloppement International (Ferdi), is Emeritus Professor at the University of Auvergne,
member of Cerdi (Centre dEtudes et de Recherches sur le Dveloppement International), he
founded in 1976, and director-founder of the Revue dEconomie du Dveloppement. He is also
a member of the European Development Network (EUDN) and Fellow of the Oxford Center for
Studies on African Economies (CSAE). Patrick Guillaumont was a member of the Committee of
Development Policy at the United Nations (CDP) from 1987 to 2009, where he chaired from
1997 to 2009 various expert groups on the identification criteria of the LDCs (Least Developed
Countries). He has been a member of many advisory international committees and has worked
for various foreign governments and international institutions, including as a special advisor
of the European Development Commissioner. Patrick Guillaumont has published many books on development and
around two hundred papers, in a wide set of economic journals. Present research is focused on development finance,
official development assistance (aid allocation criteria), vulnerability and the Least Developed Countries. A revised
edition of his book Caught in a Trap, Identifying the least developed countries will be published with its forthcoming
companion volume Out of the trap. Supporting the least developed countries. Also forthcoming the book edited with
Matthieu Boussichas Financing Sustainable Development: Addressing Vulnerabilities.

Dr. GIovanni Grevi

Giovanni Grevi is director of FRIDE, where he worked as senior researcher and head of the
Brussels office from 2010 to 2012. Before joining FRIDE, Giovanni served as senior research
fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris between 2005 and 2010. Prior
to that, he worked at the European Policy Centre in Brussels as policy analyst (1998 to 2002)
and as associate director of studies (2002-2005). He holds an MSc from the London School of
Economics and a PhD from the Universit Libre de Bruxelles. At FRIDE, his research focuses on
EU foreign and security policy, EU partnerships with the US and emerging countries, the reform
of global governance and foresight projects.
Publications and major research projects include The new global puzzle: what world for the
EU in 2025? (2006, co-directed with N. Gnesotto); The interpolar world: a new scenario (2009);
European Security and Defence Policy: the first ten years 1999-2009 (co-edited with D. Keohane and D. Helly, 2009);
Global governance 2025: at a critical juncture (EUISS US National Intelligence Council, 2010); the European Strategic
Partnerships Observatory (www.strategicpartnerships.eu) and Empowering Europes future: governance, power and
options for the EU in a changing world (co-directed with D. Keohane, B. Lee and P. Lewis, 2013).

Mr. Geert Laporte

Geert Laporte, a Belgian national, is the Deputy Director of The European Centre for Development
Policy Management (ECDPM) a think and do tank based in Maastricht and Brussels that
specializes in EU development and external relations with a particular focus on Africa. He is
responsible for ECDPMs relations with the EU institutions, EU Presidencies and EU member
states, the African Union, the ACP institutions and a broad network of partners in different
parts of the world. His thematic areas of interest and specialization include EU external action
and development policy, the EU-ACP Cotonou Partnership Agreement and the Joint AfricaEU Strategy with a particular focus on the political dimensions of international cooperation,
support to democratization and governance, conflict and development, policy coherence for
development, regional integration and innovative financing for development. He has been
involved in extensive policy research, institutional audits, evaluations and publications on various aspects of EU-ACP
and EU-Africa relations. He has also built a longstanding experience in policy dialogue facilitation and institutional and
capacity development. Prior to joining ECDPM in 1990 he has worked for several years as a research fellow and later
as an assistant at the Centre for Third World Studies at the University of Ghent in Belgium, where he mainly worked
on the management of international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Geert Laporte holds a Master
in Contemporary History and a Master in Development Studies with specialization in Public Administration from the
University of Ghent where he is also a Guest Professor.

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Dr. Frank LaRue

Prof. Finn Tarp

Frank LaRue, Director for the RFK Center for Human Rights Europe, Former UN Special
Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection for the Right to Freedom of Opinion and
Expression, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2008. At present he is the member
of the Board of Directors of the DEMOS Institute, an NGO that works on the promotion of
democratic values and provides support to the participation of youth, women and indigenous
peoples in Guatemala. He has a wide experience in Human Rights, Democratic Development,
Social Communication, Education, Latin American Analysis and political issues. Human
Rights Lawyer in cases presented to the Interamerican Human Rights Commission and the
Interamerican Human Rights Court and lobbying before the United Nations System on Human
Rights. University professor, and Human Rights investigator. Member of the Google Advisory
Council, and Pioneer Award winner 2014, granted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Dr. Mr. Simon Maxwell

S imon Maxwell is a development economist, who has worked internationally since 1970. He
worked for ten years overseas, in Kenya, India and Bolivia, then for fifteen years at the Institute
of Development Studies, University of Sussex, latterly as Programme Manager for Poverty, Food
Security and the Environment. In 1997, Simon became Director of the Overseas Development
Institute, the UKs leading independent think-tank on international development and
humanitarian issues. In 2009, he became a Senior Research Associate of the ODI. From 2001-5,
Simon was President of the Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland. In 2007, he
was made a CBE, for services to international development.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner

Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, has been Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches
Institut fr Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) since 2003. He is also Co-Director of the Kte Hamburger
Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University Duisburg-Essen, which was
established in 2012. Dirk Messner completed numerous research stays in Asia, Latin America
and the U.S. in the past 20 years, directed many international research programs in the field of
Global Sustainability and Global Governance and thus created a dense international research
network. Based on his research, Dirk Messner is engaged in high-ranking policy advisory
councils. For example, he is Co-Chair (since 2013) of the German Advisory Council on Global
Change (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltvernderungen
(WBGU)) and member of the China Council on Global Cooperation on Development and
Environment. Also, he is a member of the Global Knowledge Advisory Commission of the World Bank and member
of the European Commissions Scientific Advisory Board for EU Development Policy. Dirk Messner studied political
science and economics at the Freien Universitt Berlin and the Sogang University of Seoul/ South Korea. Kevin Watkins


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Finn Tarp is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen; and since
2009 Director of the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER).
He has more than 35 years of experience in academic and applied development economics,
including 20 years of work in some 35 developing countries. Finn Tarp is a leading international
expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid; and he was appointed to the Council
of Eminent Persons (CEP) advising the Chief Economist of the World Bank in 2013. For further
information (including a detailed CV with publications) see: www.econ.ku.dk/ftarp.

Dr. Kevin Watkins

 evin Watkins is Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute. He is a non-resident
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senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior visiting research fellow at the Global
Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University. Previously, he was the director and
lead author of UNESCOs Education for All Global Monitoring Report (2007 to 2010) and the
UNDP Human Development Report, where he led the research on reports covering global
poverty and inequality, the global water crisis, and climate change. Prior to working with the
United Nations, he worked for thirteen years with Oxfam, where he authored major reports on
African debt, international trade and Oxfams Education Report. He holds a BA in Politics and
Social Science from Durham University and a doctorate from Oxford University. His research
interests include poverty and inequality, education, approaches to equity in public spending
and inclusive economic growth.

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