Regulatory Policy Conference

Who's Who: Speakers Profile

Who's Who by Session

Plenary Session: Regulatory Policy, Better Rules for a New Game

Mr. Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, OECD
Mr. Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister for Enterprise and Streamlining Policy, Belgium
Mr. Kenneth Bengtsson, Chairman of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
Ms. Marianne Klingbeil, Director, Better Regulation, Evaluation and Impact Assessment, Secretariat-General, European Commission
Dr. Gunter Thielen, Chairman of the Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung
Mr. Adam Jasser, Undersecretary of State, Secretary of the Economic Council, Prime Minister’s plenipotentiary for the Reduction of Bureaucracy, Poland
Gary Banks, Chairman, Productivity Commission, Australia

Plenary Session: Regulatory Policy, Guiding the Road to Recovery and Growth

Mr. Rolf Alter, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
Ms Caroline Varley, Project Manager, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
Mr. Martin Tlapa, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech Republic
Ms. Viola Groebner, Director, Industry Policy and Economic Reforms, Directorate General Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick, Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, United States
Mr. Tadahiro Asami, Secretary General, Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC)

Session A1. Ex post Evaluation: Closing the Policy Cycle

Mr. Jean Maïa, Chef du service de la législation et de la qualité du droit, Secrétariat général du Gouvernement, France
Ms. Susan Page, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Deregulation, Australia
Mr. Chris Shapcott, Director, Regulatory Reform, National Audit Office, United Kingdom
Ms. Sarah Hector, Acting Head of the Evaluation Unit, Secretariat General, European Commission

Session A2. Building a Competitive and Business-friendly Environment

Mr. Jens Hedström, President, Board of Swedish Industry and Commerce for Better Regulation (NNR)
Mr. Stephan Naundorf, Advisor to the Minister of State, German Federal Chancellery, Germany
Mr. Felipe Duarte, Vice-Minister for Competitiveness, Mexico
Ms. Geneviève Pons-Deladrière, Head of Unit, European Commission, Secretariat-General
Mr. Alexander Ehmann, Head of Regulation and Enterprise Policy, Institute of Directors (IoD), United Kingdom

Session A3. Better Regulation for Green Growth

Catharina Håkansson Boman, State Secretary, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, Sweden
Prof. Jason Johnston, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, United States
Mr. Chan Ho Park, Director-General, Global Legislation Research Centre, Korea Legislation Research Institute
Dr. Klaus Jacob, Research Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Prof. Hitoshi Ushijima, Chuo University School of Law, Japan

Session A4. Simplification Strategies through E-government

Mr. Erwin de Pue, Commissioner General, Agency for Administrative Simplification, Belgium
Prof. Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Secretary of State, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Portugal
Mr. Alaa Kotb, Vice President of the State Council, Egypt
Mrs. Eva Meiling, Deputy Director General, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, Denmark
Mr. Pierre Schilling, Deputy Director, Centre des Technologies de l’information de l’État, Luxembourg

Session B1. Governance in Regulatory Oversight

Mr. George Redling, Former Assistant Secretary, Treasury Board of Canada
Ms. Catherine Atkins, Manager, Treasury, New Zealand
Dr. Johannes Ludewig, Chair, National Regulatory Control Council (Nationaler Normenkontrollrat), Germany
Mr. Stig Von Bahr, Chairman, Regelrådet, Swedish Better Regulation Council, Sweden
Mr. Stephane Jacobzone, Senior Economist, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD

Session B2. Social Impacts of Regulations

Ms. Elizabeth Hvas, Deputy permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Denmark
Mr. Matthew Adler, UPenn Law School, Leon Meltzer Professor of Law, United States
Mr. Etienne Marie, General Inspector, General Inspectorate for Social Affairs, Ministry of Health and Sports, France
Mr. Ron Blackwell, Chief Economist, American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations, (AFL-CIO), United States

Session B3. Regulators and the Regulatees: Being Friendly without being Cozy?

Mr. Michael Fruhmann, Head of Unit, Federal Chancellery, Austria
Mr. Francisco Gaetani, Deputy Executive Secretary, Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, Brazil
Mr. Clive Grace, Chair, Local Better Regulation Office, United Kingdom
Mr. Collin Dimakatso Mashile, Policy Development and Research: Markets and Competition Division, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)
Mr. Thomas Held, Director, Avenir Suisse, Switzerland

Session B4. Open Government towards user-centered Regulation

Mr. Edward Donelan, Senior Adviser - Regulatory Governance, SIGMA, OECD
Mr. Alexander Hunt, Branch Chief, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, United States
Ms. Katju Holkeri, Head of Governance Policy Unit, Public Management Department, Ministry of Finance, Finland Chair of the OECD Public Governance Committee
Mr. Luzius Mader, Deputy Director, Federal Office for Justice, Switzerland

Session C1. International Regulaty Co-operation

Mr. Felipe Duarte, Vice-Minister for Competitiveness, Mexico
Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick, Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, United States
Mr. Simon Holland, Policy officer, Directorate General Enterprise & Industry, International Affairs Unit, European Commission
Mr. Benoit Turcotte, Director, Regulatory Affairs Division, Treasury Board of Canada
Josef Konvitz, Head of division, regulatory policy, public governance and territorial development, OECD

Session C2. Mapping Sustainability in Policy Making

Ms. Barbara Kunz, Project Manager, Modern Regulation, Bertelsmann Stiftung
Ms. Michelle Moore, Federal Environmental Executive, White House Council on Environmental Quality, United States
Mr. Marc Hostert, Head of the Private Office, Member of the European Court of Auditors
Mr. Andrea Renda, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium

Session C3. Addressing Risk in Regulatory Policy Making

Mr. Nikolaï Malyshev, Deputy Head, Regulatory Policy, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
Mr. Simon Webb, Executive Director, The Nichols Group, Former Director General, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
Prof. Jonathan Wiener, Professor of Law, Duke University Law School, United States
Mr. Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, Professor, Hellenic School of Public Administration, Greece
Mr. Jan van Tol, Manager Risk and Responsibility Programme, Central Government Reform Programme,Netherlands

Final Plenary Session: Regulation: The Challenge to Govern Better Learning from Failures to Prepare for the Future

Mr. Rolf Alter, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
Mr. Gary Banks, Chairman, Productivity Commission, Australia
Mr. Luigi Carbone, Deputy General-Secretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Executive Chair of the Better Regulation Unit, and Counsellor of State, Italy
Mr. Luiz Alberto dos Santos, Deputy Minister for Analysis and Follow-Up of Governmental Policies, Presidency of Republic - Civil House, Brazil
Dr. Marianne Klingbeil, Director for Better Regulation; Acting Chair of the Impact Assessment Board, Secretariat-General of the European Commission
Mr. Jeroen Nijland, Director, Regulatory Reform Group, Ministry of Finance/Economic Affairs, the Netherlands