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Thursday 10 April 2008 (day 1):

   
08:30 - 09:00 Registration, coffee and pastries
   
09:00 - 10:00 Opening and keynote address
  Welcoming remarks
Prof Mark Pieth
President, Basel Institute on Governance
  Dr Pascoal Mocumbi
Haut Représentant, European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), former Prime Minister of Mozambique
  Prof Helmut K Anheier
Professor of Sociology at Heidelberg University, Germany; Director of the Center for Civil Society, University of California
   
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 12:15 The changing paradigms of global health
  Prof Marcel Tanner (Chair)
Director, Swiss Tropical Institute
  "Avoiding pouring money down the rathole"
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Science Journalist, The New York Times
  "Changing Perspectives on Global Health Philanthropy: Governance Challenges"
Dr Guy Pfeffermann
CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Management Education & Research Consortium, and former Director of the Global Business School Network of the International Finance Corporation
  "Why and how does the private sector invest in global health ?"
Andreas Holzer
Sustainability Research, Bank Sarasin
   
12:15 - 13:15 Buffet Lunch/Networking
   
13:15 - 14:45 Effectiveness of philanthropy (case studies)
  Dr Kazem Behbehani (Chair)
Former WHO Assistant Director General
  "Business as a partner – engaging models of the Global Fund"
David Hayward Evans
Corporate Partnerships Manager, the Global Fund
  "Business comes on board"
Dr Robin Donnelly
Vice President Shell Health, Royal Dutch/Shell Group
  "Foundations as catalysts for health-related projects"
Dr Stephen Robinson
General Manager, Novo Nordisk Haemophilia Foundation
   
14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break
   
15:00 - 17:00 Governance and Effectiveness challenges (two parallel workshops)
   
  Workshop 1: Transparency, legitimacy and accountability of private initiatives
  Prof Anne Peters (Chair)
Vice-President, Basel Institute on Governance
  Dr Malebona Matsoso (keynote speaker)
Director Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property, Office of the Director General, WHO
  Silvio Gabriel
Executive Vice President, Head of Malaria Initiatives, Novartis Pharma AG
  Dr Kaspar Wyss
Project Leader, Swiss Tropical Institute
   
  Workshop 2: Governance of R & D for neglected diseases
  Prof Anton K. Schnyder (Chair)
Member of the Board, Basel Institute on Governance
  Dr Chris Hentschel (keynote speaker)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)
  Prof Marcel Tanner
Chairman of the Board of DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative)
  Dr Klaus Rose
Head Pediatrics, Hoffmann-La Roche
   
19:00 Conference dinner/Networking
   

Friday 11 April 2008

   
08:30 - 09:00 Coffee and pastries
   
09:00 - 09:30 Workshop reports to the plenary
  Gretta Fenner (Chair)
Director, Basel Institute on Governance
  Rapporteurs of workshops
   
09:30 - 11:00 The way forward – Examples of self-governance
  Dr Hans-Peter Bauer (Chair)
Member of the Board, Basel Institute on Governance
  "The Global Fund as an example of self-governance in the public health sector"
Enrico Mollica
Director Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva
  "Orientation in self-governing systems - a heuristic approach"
Vincent Paul Menken
Executive Assistant to the Management Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung
  "Assuring humanitarian accountability and quality "
Radha Dawn Ivory
Basel Institute on Governance, speaking on behalf of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership-International (HAP-I)
   
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee and pastries
   
11:15 - 12:15 The way forward (cont’d) – Panel discussion
  Prof Mark Pieth (Chair)
President, Basel Institute on Governance
  Dr Kazem Behbehani
Former WHO Assistant Director General
  Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Science Journalist, The New York Times
  Dr Pascoal Mocumbi
Haut Représentant, European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), former Prime Minister of Mozambique
  Prof Marcel Tanner
Director, Swiss Tropical Institute
   
12:15 - 12:30 Chairman’s summary and conclusions
  Prof Mark Pieth
President, Basel Institute on Governance