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PROVISIONAL LIST OF SPEAKERS IN THE WORKING SESSIONS OF THE THIRD UN WORLD CONFERENCE ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

SATURDAY 14 MARCH

13:00-14:30 Technological Hazards: From Risk Reduction to Recovery

Main Hall, Sendai International Conference Centre

Keynote Address

Ms. Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP

Moderator

Mr. Elhadj As Sy, Secretary-General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Speakers

Mr. Sergei Rakhmanov , Ambassador of Belrus to Japan

Mr. Boronov Kubatbek Ayilchievich, Minister for Emergency Situations, Kyrgyztan

Mr. Mahafaly Solonandrasana Olivier, Minister of the Interior and Decentralization, Madagascar

Mr. Tetsuya Yamamoto, Deputy Director General, Nuclear Disaster Management Bureau, Japan

Mr. Amedeo Cicala, Mayor of Viggiano, Italy

13:00-14:30 Disaster Risk Transfer and Insurance

Hagi Hall, Sendai International Conference Centre

Moderator

Mr. Arup Chatterjee, Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Asian Development Bank

Speakers

Mr. Gerry Brownlee, Minister of Defence, Minister of Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, New Zealand

Mr. Roberto Tan, National Treasurer and Under-Secretary of Finance, Department of Finance, Philippines

Mr. Nelson Chege Kuria, Group Chief Executive Officer, CIC Insurance Group, Kenya

Mr. Erdal Altuncu, Head of Department, General Directorate of Insurance, Undersecretariat of Treasury, Turkey

Mr. Kengo Sakurada, Chairman, General Insurance Association of Japan

Mr. Michael J. Morrissey, President and Chief Executive Officer, International Insurance Society

Ms. Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, The World Bank

15:00-16:30Risk Identification and Assessment (Priority 2)


Chair

Dr. Florika Fink-Hooijer, Director of policy, strategy and international, EC ECHO

Moderator

Mr. Francis Ghesquiere, Manager, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), The World Bank

Panelists:

Ms. Lianne Dalziel, the Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand

Dr. Juma AlMaskari, Director General of Meteorology, Public Authority for Civil Aviation, Oman

Mr. Muwembe Khalid, Principal Meteorologist, Uganda Meteorology Department under Ministry of Water, Lands, and Environment, Uganda

Mr. Hisaya Sawano , Chief Researcher of International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), PWRI, Japan

Dr. Louis Gritzo, VP of research at FM Global, USA

17:00-18:30Early Warning (Priority 2)

Hagi Hall , Sendai International Conference Centre

Moderator

Mr. Jeremiah Lengoasa, Deputy Secretary-General, WMO

Keynote

Mr. Phil Evans, UK Met Office Executive Member, Director of Government Services

Speakers

Mr. Hilary Onek, Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Relief and Refugees, Uganda

Dr. P.K. Mohapatra, Special Relief Commissioner and Ex-officio Special Secretary to Government Odisha, India

Mr. Masahi Nagata, Director- General, Meteorological Institute

Ms. Gwendolyn Pang, Secretary-General, Philippine Red Cross

Mr. Rick Bailey, Head of Tsunami Warning & Ocean Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

17:00-18:30 Commitments to Safe Schools


Welcoming remarks

Ms. Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland

Keynote Speaker

H.R. H. Princess Margriet, Netherlands

Mr. Numan Kurtulmus, Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey

Moderator

Ms Sung-Joo Kim, President of Korean Red Cross Speakers

Speakers

H.E. Mr. Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, Minister of Education, Nigeria

Mr. Reynaldo Laguda, Assistant Secretary, Department of Education, Philippines

Dr. Fuat Oktay, Head of AFAD, Prime Ministry, Disaster and Emergency Management Authority.

Mr. Ali Shahri, General Director, Office of Planning for Reconstruction and Equipping Schools, Ministry of Education, Islamic Republic of Iran

Mr. Jamie Isbister, First Assistant-Secretary, Humanitarian Division, DFAT, Australia

Mrs. Puan Maharani, Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture

Ms. Flavia Schlegel, Assistant Director-General for Sciences, UNESCO

Ms. Alicia Dela Rosa Bala, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN SocioCultural Community.

SUNDAY 15 MARCH

10:00 - 11:30 Governance and Development Planning at National/Local Levels (Priority 1)

Main Hall , Sendai International Conference Centre

Moderator

Mr. Rolf Alter , Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD

Speakers

Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra, Additional Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, India

Dr. Ibrahim Chahrour, Head of the Department of Planning and Programming, Council for Development and Reconstruction, Lebanon

Mr. Fuat Oktay, Director-General, AFAD, Turkey

Ms. Christelle Pratt, Deputy Secretary-General, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

Mr. Ryosei Akazawa, State Minister of the Cabinet Office of Japan.

10:00-11:30 Building Resilient Futures for Rural Areas


Chair

Ms. Mayling Chan, Global Program Director, OXFAM Hong Kong

Speakers

Mr. Mitiku Kassa Gutile, State Minister, Disaster Risk Management and Food Security, Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia

Mr. Joseph Ole Simel, Executive Director, Mainyoito Pastoralis Integrated Development Organization, Kenya

Ms. Haydee Rodriguez, President, Las Brumas Cooperatives, Nicaragua

Ms. Godavari Dange, Maharashtran Agricultural Producer, India

Ms. Grace Balawag, Deputy Coordinator, Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education), Philippines

Ms. Maria Patek, Department Head, Ministry of Land and Forests, Austria

10.00 11.30 Lessons from Mega-Disasters

Exhibition Hall 1, Sendai International Conference Centre

Moderator

Mr. Syamsul Maarif, Minister of Disaster Management, Chief of the National Agency for Disaster Management, Indonesia

Welcome Remarks

Mr. Akihiro Nishimura, State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan

Speakers

Mr. Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary, UNESCO/IOC

Mr. Noritake Nishide, Director-General of the Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan

Mr. Eduardo Mesina, Deputy Director, Port Works Division Ministry of Public Works, Chile

Mr. Shi Peijun, Deputy Director, Expert Board of the China National Commission on Disaster Reduction, China

Mr. Ismail Gunduz, District Governor of Adapazari-Sakarya, Turkey

12:00-13:30Integrated Water Resource Management


Welcome

Mr. Michel Jarraud, Chair, UN Water

Mr. Ted Chaiban, Director, Emergency Programs, UNICEF

Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO

Moderator

Ms. Ursula Schaefer-Preuss, President, Global Water Partnership

Keynote

Mr. Jos Van Alphen, Delta Committee, Netherlands Speakers

Mr. Leonard Hango, Senior Hydrologist and Basin Control Officer, Namibia

Mr. Michael Glantz, Director, Consortium for Capacity Building, INSTAAR/ University of Colorado

Mr. Pervaiz Amir, Global Water Partnership, Pakistan

Mr. Joseph Hess, Vice-Director, Federal Office for the Environment

12:00-13:30 Earth Observation and High Technology to Reduce Risks

Exhibition Hall 1, Sendai International Conference Centre

Chair

Mr. Mohammad Abdul Wazed, Director General, Department of Disaster Management, Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh

Moderator

Prof. Ryosuke Shibasaki Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo

Speakers

Ms. Barbara Ryan, Secretariat Director, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

Prof. Paul Cheung, Chair, International Steering Committee for Global Mapping

Dr. Cosmas Zavazava, International Telecommunication Union, Chief of Department, Project Support and Knowledge Management Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)

Prof. Satoshi Tadokoro, President-Elect , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Robotics and Automation Society Panelists

Ms. Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Ms. Sandra Wu, Chair, Private Sector Advisory Group of UNISDR

Mr. Said Faisal Executive Director, ASEAN Coordinating Centre For Humanitarian Assistance Dr. Renato U Solidum, JR, Director of the Philippine Institute of Vulcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS)

Prof. Gerald Steinbauer, Professor, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

12:00-13:30Global Risk Trends


Chair

Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, UN Resident Coordinator in Malaysia and UNDP Resident Representative for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam

Panelists

Mr Andrew Maskrey, Chief Risk Knowledge Section, UNISDR

Mr Omar Dario Cardona, Representative INGENIAR and CIMNE and Professor, National University of Colombia

Mr Allan Lavell, Coordinator, Social Study of Disaster Risk Programme, Secr

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