8:30 – 9:00 am       Participants Registration/Coffee

9:00 - 9:30 am        Opening

• Welcoming remarks by Jim Kim, President of the World Bank
• Opening remarks by the Chair, Franciscus Godts, Executive Director for Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, Kosovo, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey
• Opening remarks by Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President (Development Economics) and Chief Economist, World Bank

9:30 – 11:00 am     Session 1: Migration and Development Nexus

• David O'Sullivan, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States of America
• Gibril Faal, Director of GK Partners/Trustee of AFFORD
• Shahidul Haque, Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, incoming Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) 2016 Chair
• Jörg Frieden, Executive Director for Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
• 11:00–

11:00–11:15 am     Coffee

11:15–12:30 pm     Session 2: Contributions of migrants to origin and destination countries

• Trade, investment, entrepreneurship
  Ricardo Hausmann, Director of the Center for International Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Skills, innovation and brain circulation
  Sam Pitroda, Innovator
• Fiscal contributions
  Stefano Scarpetta, Director for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Global gains from migration
  Robert E. Lucas, Professor of Economics, Boston University

12:30–2:00 pm   Break

2:00–3:15 pm     Session 3: Maximizing the benefits of labor migration

• Reducing labor migration costs and recruitment costs
  Sandra Polaski, ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy
• Facilitating intra-EU labor mobility of low skilled workers: lessons to share
  Georg Fischer, Director for "Analysis, Evaluation, External Relations", Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
• Migration, demographic trends and aging
  • Presentation of the Migration and Remittances Factbook
        Sonia Plaza, Senior Economist, World Bank
  • Demographic trends and aging
        Rainer Münz, Advisor, European Commission

3:15–3:30 pm     Coffee

3:30–5:00 pm     Session 4: Solutions on migration - Roundtable on Experiences on integrating economic migrants and refugees

• High-level representative from Germany
• Ninette Kelley, Director, Liaison Office in New York, UNHCR
• Ramon Sanahuja, Director of ‘Attention and Welcoming to Migrants to City of Barcelona’
• Susan Martin, Herzberg Professor of International Migration Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
• High-level representative from Canada (TBC)

5:00–6:15 pm     Session 5: Solutions on migration - Leveraging remittances and diaspora resources for financing development

• Diaspora bonds
  Jwala Rambarran, Governor, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
• Financial inclusion and the use of new technologies
  Max Chion, Head of Product Platforms for Emerging Payments, Group Executive Emerging Payment Products, MasterCard
• Reducing remittance costs
  Y. Sudhir Kumar Shetty, President, UAE Exchange
• Using future remittances as collateral for international bond financing
  Dilip Ratha, Head of KNOMAD and Lead Economist, Migration and Remittances (DECMR), Development Indicators Group, World Bank

6:15–6:30 pm     Way Forward and Closing

• Franciscus Godts, Executive Director for Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, Kosovo, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey
• Dilip Ratha, Head of KNOMAD and Lead Economist, Migration and Remittances (DECMR), Development Indicators Group, World Bank

6:30–8:00 pm     Cocktail (MC Atrium)