Meeting in Washington DC on 24-25 March, members of the SI Committee on the Economy, Social Cohesion and the Environment furthered their discussions on the Committee's 'Governance in a Global Society - A Social Democratic Approach' report.
Presentations on policies of the World Bank were given by Ad Melkert, Executive Director of the World Bank, at the headquarters of which the meeting was held, and on the International Monetary Fund by Masood Ahmed, Deputy Director of the Policy Development and Review Department, with special responsibility for highly-indebted countries. A presentation was also given by Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Advisor from the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network at the World Bank. Delegates participated from Albania, Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United States (Full list of participants). The meeting agreed on substantial proposals, advancing the report of the Committee to be contributed to the forthcoming SI Congress.
The meeting was chaired by Christoph Zöpel, Chair of the Committee, of the Social Democratic Party, SPD, Germany, and it was decided that the Committee will next meet on 27-28 June in Berlin.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Chair of the Committee
Christoph Zöpel
(SDP Germany)
Secretary General of the SI
Luis Ayala
ALBANIA
Socialist Party of Albania
Anastas Angjeli
ARGENTINA
Radical Civic Union, UCR
Brian Thomson
FRANCE
Socialist Party, PS
Bernard Soulage
GERMANY
Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD
Ulla Burchardt
Katrin Werblow
HUNGARY
Hungarian Socialist Party, MSzP
Andras Balogh
ITALY
Democrats of the Left, DS
Fabio Nicolucci
MEXICO
Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI
Javier Sánchez Campuzano
Gustavo Carvajal Moreno
NORWAY
Norwegian Labour Party, DNA
Espen Villanger
PORTUGAL
Socialist Party, PS
Maria João Rodrigues
ROMANIA
Social Democratic Party, PSD
Adrian Severin
SPAIN
Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party, PSOE
Germá Bel
SWEDEN
Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP
Urban Ahlin
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Democratic Socialists of America, DSA
Frank Llewellyn
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Social Democrats USA, SDUSA
Joel Freedman
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
National Democratic Institute, NDI
Ivan Doherty
International League of Religious Socialists, ILRS
Andrew Hammer
PES Rapporteur
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Marcel Mersch
Socialist International Women, SIW
Pia Locatelli
SI Secretariat
Latifa Perry
Sophie Thérouanne
Ad Melkert, Executive Director, World Bank
Masood Ahmed, Deputy Director, Policy Department, IMF
Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank on Globalisation
If you are looking for an earlier meeting, please consult the LIBRARY section.