9:00 - 9:30 Opening Session
Welcoming Remarks:
Dr.
Salim Nasr General Director, The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
LCPS
Mr. Olaf Köndgen
Resident Representative for Jordan and Lebanon, The Konrad Adenauer
Foundation (KAF)
Keynote Speech:
H.E. Dr. Issam Naaman Minister of Post and Telecommunications
9:30 - 11:00 Panel One - How to Privatize:
Selecting an Appropriate Process
Presentation:
The
Government's Privatization Strategy
Dr. Kamal Shehadi Economic Consultant
Discussant:
Dr. Samir Makdisi Director of the Institute
of Money and Banking, American University of Beirut
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Panel Two - Designing Viable Regulatory Frameworks
Presentation:
Institutional
Constraints of a Regulatory Body
Mr. Sami Atallah Researcher, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies,
and Mr. Marwan Sakr, Lawyer
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Panel Three – The Case of the Mobile Phone Sector
Presentations:
Economic
Lessons from the Lebanese Cellular Experience
Dr. Charbel Nahas Economic Consultant
Institutional
Lessons from the Lebanese Cellular Experience
Mr. Bechara Hatem Lawyer
15:30- 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45- 17:15 Panel Four - The Economic and Social Impacts
of Privatizing the Telecommunication Sector
Presentations:
Fiscal
and Macro Impact of Privatization
Mr. Marwan Barakat Head of Economic Unit Analysis, Bank
Audi
Labor Impact
of Privatization
Dr. Joey Ghaleb Principal Researcher, Economic Studies Program,
The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
17: 15 - 17:30 Closing Remarks
