Fiscal Adjustment to the Euro-Med Challenge
Commodore Hotel - Beirut
December 11, 1998
Conference Program
9:00 - 9:30 Opening Remarks
Dr. Paul Salem; President; The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
Mr. Olaf Köndgen; Resident Representative for Jordan and Lebanon, The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF)
Mr. Peter Wittig; Ambassador, Embassy of Germany, Lebanon
Dr. Samira Atallah; Executive Director, The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS).
9:30 - 11:00 Session One - Status of the Euro-Med Agreement
- H.E. Dr. Nasser Saidi; Minister of Economy and Trade, and Minister of Industry
- Mr. Dimitris Kourkoulas; Head of the European Union Delegation
Moderator: Dr. Samira Atallah, Executive Director, LCPS
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 1:00 Session Two - Fiscal Context of the Euro-Med
- Mr. Ghaleb Abou-Mosleh; Head of the Training and Development Department, Central Bank of Lebanon
- Dr. Ghassan Dibeh; Chairperson, Department of Economics, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon
Moderator: Dr. Youssef Al-Khalil; Senior Director, Head of the Financial Operations Department, Central Bank of Lebanon
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Session Three – Impact of the Euro-Med
on social distribution (Entry Points)
- Dr. Nagib Issa; Professor of Economics, Department of Social Sciences, Lebanese University
- Dr. Antoine Haddad; Partner in Charge, Dar At-Tanmiya, Lebanon
on the economic sectors
- Mr. Iskandar Moukarbel; Economic Consultant, the Lebanese Association of Banks
- Mr. Marco Ayoub, Member of the Association of Industrialists, Lebanon
Moderator: Dr. Kamal Shehadi; Vice President and Director, Middle East and North Africa, Thompson BankWatch, Lebanon
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