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Doubling
Dublin (Page 2)
Globalisation
*City Economies *Future Employment *Integrated Development
*Decentralisation
Dublin
in the Global Economy:A
new vision
Conference
Thursday,
8th November 2001, City West Conference Centre
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Speakers
& Timetable
Registration
Morning
Session
Cities
in a global economy: International perspectives
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| 9.30am:
Opening: Mr
Eamonn O'Hare: Chairman of the Dublin Employment Pact
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9.45-
10.45am: Professor Saskia Sassen: Keynote Address
Cities
in the Global Economy-Opportunities and Challenges for Dublin.
Saskia
Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the
University of Chicago and Visiting Professor at the London
School of Economics. She is a world leading analyst, writer
and lecturer on Globalisation, Global Cities and Information
Society. Her books include The Global City, Cities in a
World Economy, Losing Control, Sovereignty in an Age of
Globalisation, Guests and Aliens, Global Networks/Linked
Cities. She has received multiple awards for her work.
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| 11.15-11.45am:
Professor Réne Prud'homme
Cities as Economies.
Dr Réne Prud'homme has been Professor of Economics at the
Universities of Phnom-Penh, Lille, and Paris XII where he
is now Professor Emeritus, and also Visiting Professor at
MIT. He has worked as deputy-director of the Environment Directorate
of the OECD, consultant to the World Bank, the European Union,
the OECD, and the Asian Development Bank. He has written a
number of books on urban and regional development.
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| 11.45-12.15am:Mr
Jonathan Potter
Globalisation
and Decentralisation.
Dr
Jonathan Potter works in the Local Economic and Employment
Development Programme (LEED) at the OECD, Paris. He is responsible
for LEED activities on inward investment, financing local
development, youth entrepeneurship and financing entrepeneurship
as well as the local reviews of entrepeneurship. He is also
manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Cities and Regions. He has
recently completed drafting an OECD publication called 'globalisation
and devolution - implications for local decision-makers' which
addresses how cities and regions need to respond to globalisation
to create competitive economies and inclusive societies.
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| 12.15-12.45am:
Dr. Wendelin Wanka
Integrative
Urban Development. Vienna example.
Dr
Wanka, Chief Executive Office of the City of Vienna City,
where he has been responsible for the organisation, modernisation
and decentralisation of the City Government, for urban planning,
regeneration and European Integration.
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Afternoon
Session
Implications
for Dublin
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Ms.
Gina Quinn
Developing
Business and Employment in a Global City
Ms. Gina Quinn is Chief Executive of Dublin Chamber of Commerce,
which represents businesses across all sectors in the Greater
Dublin City Area. It is concerned with developing policy for
governance, transport, overall development of Dublin and maximising
enterprise and investment opportunities. She is currently
a member of the Consumer Board, Bord Bia, the Enterprise Policy
Group, EU Commission on Enterprise and Information Society.
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| 3.00-3.30pm:Mr.
John Fitzgerald
Growing
the Population, Stopping the Sprawl
John
Fitzgerald was appointed Dublin City Manager in mid 1996.
He is Chair of The Steering Group which prepared and monitors
the Strategic Planning Guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area.
Under his management six regeneration areas have been designated
in order to achieve the social, physical and economic regeneration
of previous run down parts of the city.
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| 3.45-4.15pm:Dr.
Brendan Williams
Dublin
as an economy
Dr.
Brendan Williams is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the
School of the Built Environment in Dublin Institute of Technology.
He has worked as consultant on urban development with a range
of public and private agencies. He is presently involved in
a number of significant research projects on the economies
of cities with the European Commission.
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| 4.15-4.45pm:
Mr. David Connolly
Building
an Inclusive City
David
Connolly is the Director of the Dublin Inner City Partnership.
He is also chairperson of the Ballyfermot Drugs Task force.
He is former chair of the Dublin Employment Pact. He has been
involved in community activity, co-operative development and
local development in Dublin City for thirty years
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4.45-5.15pm:
Full Panel Discussion
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