17:30 - 20:30
AD Fund Hall
14:00 - 17:00
AD Fund Hall
09:00 - 17:00
ICT Fund Hall
19:30 - 21:30
AD Fund Hall
15:15 - 17:20
DP World Hall
13:30 - 15:00
Developing Debt Management & Strategies in Arab Countries: Experiences and Lessons Learned
Main Session
Main Session
DP World Hall
13:00 - 17:00
AD Fund Hall
11:00 - 12:00
High Level Discussion : Next Generation of Government Services The Future of Government Services in a Citizen-Centric Digital World
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
TRA Hall
10:45 - 11:30
Dubai Municipality Hall
10:00 - 10:50
High Level Discussion : Shifting Service Models Exploring the Challenges with Delivering Citizen-Centric Services
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
TRA Hall
09:05 - 10:00
High Level Discussion : Future Citizen Now Understanding the Consumer-Grade Expectations of Future Citizens
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
TRA Hall
09:00 - 10:00
Macroeconomic Development and the repercussions on Public Finance in the Arab Region
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
DP World Hall
09:00 - 12:00
Intensive Program to Build Capacity for Public Servants in Developing Countries in Partnership with World Bank
Side Session
Side Session
DEWA HALL
09:00 - 12:00
RTA Lounge
19:00 - 21:30
Emirates Airlines Hall
18:40 - 19:20
Madinat Theatre
Shefali Tsabary
Clinical Psychologist and Expert in Eastern philosophy
17:40 - 18:00
Plenary Hall
17:00 - 18:00
High Level Ministerial Roundtable on the Future of Work in Partnership with the ILO
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
ICT Fund Hall
17:00 - 17:20
DEWA HALL
16:15 - 16:45
AD Fund Hall
H.E. Ali Al Rumaihi
Minister of Information Affairs
H.E. Hussain Zein
President - The National Media Authority in Egypt
H.E. Jumana Ghenemat
Minister and Government Spokesperson - Ministry of State for Media Affairs in Jordan
16:00 - 17:00
ICT Fund Hall
15:20 - 15:40
DP World Hall
15:20 - 15:40
Dubai Municipality Hall
15:15 - 15:45
TRA Hall
H.E. Achim Steiner
Administrator
H.E. Ohood AlRoumi
Minister of State for Happiness and Wellbeing & Vice Chairman of the World Government Summit
Angel Gurria
Secretary General
15:00 - 16:00
Main Conference Area
15:00 - 16:00
AD Fund Hall
Promoth Manghat
Executive Director & Chief Executive - Finablr
H.E.Dr. Aisha Bin Bishr
Director General
Therese Couture
Director - Treasury Operations Department
Nelson Chow
Chief Fintech Officer
Siim Sikkut
Government CIO
15:00 - 16:00
Press Conferences Room. Global Gender Circle: Impact and Results of Implementing Gender Friendly Police
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
Main Conference Area
14:15 - 15:15
ICT Fund Hall
14:15 - 15:00
TRA Hall
Henrietta Fore
Executive Director - UNICEF
Kamran Elahian
Chairman - Global Innovation Catalyst
Angel Gurria
Secretary General
H.E. Tariq Al Gurg
Chief Executive Officer
14:00 - 14:45
AD Fund Hall
Bernard P. Olalia
Administrator - The Department of Labor and Employment - Philippines
Ferid Belhaj
Regional Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region
Raghida Dergham
Executive Chairman
Ryan Roslansky
Senior Vice President - Product, LinkedIn
H.E. Nasser Al Hamli
Minister of Human Resources & Emiratisation
13:30 - 13:50
DP World Hall
13:00 - 14:00
ICT Fund Hall
12:00 - 12:45
ICT Fund Hall
11:50 - 12:20
Dubai Municipality Hall
11:00 - 12:00
AD Fund Hall
H.E. Amr Talaat
Minister of Communication and Information Technology
Margaret Peterlin
Senior Vice President For Global External and Public Affairs
Karan Bhatia
VP, Global Public Policy & Gov Relations - Google
11:00 - 11:45
TRA Hall
Henry Puna
Prime Minister
Ban Ki Moon
President - Global Green Growth Institute
H.E. Achim Steiner
Administrator
Mahmoud Mohieldin
Senior Vice President
Maria Fernanda Espinoza Garcés
President of the General Assembly
10:20 - 10:30
Plenary Hall
10:00 - 10:45
AD Fund Hall
Jeffrey Sachs
Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
H.E. Ohood AlRoumi
Minister of State for Happiness and Wellbeing & Vice Chairman of the World Government Summit
John Helliwell
Professor Emeritus
H.E. Maria Manuel Leitao Marques
Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation
10:00 - 11:30
SME Development and Financial Inclusion in the Arab Region in Partnership with IMF
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
ICT Fund Hall
08:00 - 09:30
Main Conference Area
Gina McCarthy
Professor - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ban Ki Moon
President - Global Green Growth Institute
H.E. Dr. Adnan Amin
Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency - IRENA
H.E. Laurent Fabius
President
18:30 - 21:00
Emirates Airlines Clusters
18:00 - 18:20
Dubai Municipality Hall
H.E. Bintou Chabi Adam Taro
Minister of Social Affairs and Microfinance
H.E. Mitcy Larue
Minister of Family Affairs, Republic of Seychelles
H.E. Hessa Bint Essa Buhumaid
Minister of Community Development
18:00 - 19:30
DEWA HALL
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Martine Durand
Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Directorate, OECD
Martin Seligman
Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and Director of Positi
H.E.Dr. Aisha Bin Bishr
Director General
Jeffrey Sachs
Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
John Helliwell
Professor Emeritus
Tessa Peasgood
Research Fellow - University of Sheffield
Robert Biswas-Diene
Managing Director, Positive Acorn
17:40 - 18:00
Dubai Municipality Hall
Gleam Davis
Mayor
Suzana Pribilovic
Minister of Public Administration, Montenegro
H.E. Ohood AlRoumi
Minister of State for Happiness and Wellbeing & Vice Chairman of the World Government Summit
H.E. Maria Manuel Leitao Marques
Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation
Hadley Gamble
Presenter
17:20 - 17:40
Dubai Municipality Hall
Chiara Corazza
Managing Director of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society
H.E. Maria del Pilar Garrido
Minister of Planning and Economic Policy, Republic of Costa Rica
H.E. Arancha González
Executive Director
Tamara Perko
President, Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development
17:00 - 17:20
DEWA HALL
17:00 - 17:20
Dubai Municipality Hall
H.E. Epsy Campbell Barr
Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica
H.E. Helen Clark
Politician
H.E. Sarah Al Amiri
Minister of State for Advanced Sciences, UAE
15:30 - 16:30
Planning for the Next Generation of Careers (in Partnership with International Labour Organization)
Side Session
Side Session
TRA Hall
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
H.E. Sayed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and HRD - Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Haifa Al Kaylani
Founder and Chairman
Khalid Koser
Executive Director
H.E. Nasser Al Hamli
Minister of Human Resources & Emiratisation
15:20 - 15:40
DP World Hall
15:00 - 15:20
DP World Hall
15:00 - 16:00
AD Fund Hall
Fadi Chehade
Partner
Markus Reinisch
VP Public Policy of EMEA
Francis Gurry
Director General - World Intellectual Property Organization
Patrick O’Donovan
Minister of State for Public Procurement
Amandeep S. Gill
Executive Director
Samuel Burke
CNN Business & Technology Correspondent - CNN International
15:00 - 16:30
ICT Fund Hall
14:40 - 15:00
DEWA HALL
14:40 - 15:00
Dubai Municipality Hall
14:40 - 15:00
DP World Hall
Roman Macaya Hayes
President of The National Social Security Authority, Republic of Costa Rica
14:30 - 15:15
TRA Hall
Sergio Pimenta
Vice President, Middle East & Africa
Joe Kaeser
President
H.E. Eng. Suhail Al Mazrouei
Minister of Energy & Industry
H.E. Saeed Al Tayer
Managing Director and CEO - Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA)
Mounir Bouaziz
Country Chairman Dubai and N. Emirates | Vice President Commercial, S. America & Africa
14:20 - 14:40
Dubai Municipality Hall
14:15 - 15:00
ICT Fund Hall
13:30 - 14:30
AD Fund Hall
H.E. Dr. Ahmad Bin Belhoul
Cabinet Member and Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills
Fred Swaniker
Founder
H.E. Haifa Najjar
Senator - Education
Hector Escamilla
President
H.E. Mary O Connor
Minister of State for Higher Education
John Herlihy
President of MENA & LATAM
13:30 - 14:15
TRA Hall
Jose Antonio Gonzalez
Former Minister of Finance
Marcelo Guigale
Director, Financial Advisory and Banking Treasury
H.E. Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzon
Minister of Finance
Niels Thygesen
Chairman
13:00 - 14:00
Ministerial Roundtable on Open and Innovative Government In Partnership with OECD
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
ICT Fund Hall
12:30 - 12:50
DP World Hall
H.H. Sultan Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar
Sultan of Sokoto, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Josef Boehle
Director, Charter for Forgiveness and Reconciliation
H.E. María Elena Agüero
Secretary General- Club de Madrid
12:20 - 12:30
DP World Hall
H.E. Sheikh Nahyan Mabarak Al Nahayan
Cabinet Member and Minister of Tolerance
12:00 - 12:45
TRA Hall
David Lewis
Executive Secretary - Financial Action Task Force
Ross Leckow
Deputy General Council of Legal Department
Martin Bartlam
Partner, International Group Head of Finance & Projects and FinTech Global Co-chair - DLA Piper
Laurence White
Member of Secretariat
11:05 - 11:45
Session 3: Next Gen Government Services The future of government services in a citizen-centric digital world
Side Session
Side Session
Madinat Theatre
11:00 - 11:45
Transforming the future: Creating value through government innovation In Partnership with OECD
Side Session
Side Session
TRA Hall
Mariana Mazzucato
Founder & Director
H.E. Richard Raši
Deputy Prime Minister
Siim Sikkut
Government CIO
Angel Gurria
Secretary General
H.E. Huda Al Hashimi
Assistant Director General for Strategy & Innovation
11:00 - 12:00
AD Fund Hall
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Former Prime Minister, Kingdom of Spain
H.E. Arancha González
Executive Director
Mukhisa Kituyi
Secretary General
Manus Cranny
Presenter - Bloomberg
H.E Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori
Minister of Economy
Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas
Former Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of Portugal
11:00 - 12:00
Roundtable on Enhancing the Exchange of Government Innovations Among Regions and Countries in Partnership with CLAD and APPAM
Closed Round table
Closed Round table
ICT Fund Hall
10:00 - 10:30
Dubai Municipality Hall
M. Sanjayan
Chief Executive Officer
William McDonough
Founder
H.E. Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak
Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi
10:00 - 10:45
AD Fund Hall
H.E. Dr. Hala El Saeed
Minister of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform and a prominent Egyptian economist and a renowned academic author.
Adnan Olwan
Vice Chairman
Daniel Kaniewski
Deputy Administrator
Marcos Bonturi
Director, Public Governance
Angel Gurria
Secretary General
H.E. Mariam Al Mehairi
Minister of State for Food Security
09:40 - 10:10
Plenary Hall
09:40 - 10:10
Plenary Hall
09:30 - 10:00
Dubai Municipality Hall
09:30 - 10:00
DEWA HALL
09:05 - 10:00
Madinat Theatre
09:00 - 09:45
AD Fund Hall
H.E. Abdulrahman Al Hamidy
Director General, Chairman of the Board of the Arab Monetary Fund
Liqun Jin
President
Ferid Belhaj
Regional Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region
Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi
Director General, Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD)
13:25 - 14:05
Plenary Hall
Lieutenant General H.H. Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed AlNahyan
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, United Arab Emirates
12:30 - 13:00
DEWA HALL
H.H. Sheikha Mariam bint Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Abu Dhabi-based Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation (SHF) - United Arab Emirates
12:05 - 12:25
Dubai Municipality Hall
11:00 - 12:00
ICT Fund Hall
10:15 - 11:00
Tolerance as an Effective Way of Combatting Crimes Impacting The Safety of Our Communities
Side Session
Side Session
AD Fund Hall
Mr. Pastor Stephen Gualberto
Field Director - Church of The Nazarene
Bhai Sahib Bhai
Sikh leader; Chairman
Mrs. Rabbi Diana Gerson
Associate Executive Vice President - New York Board of Rabbis
Ernie Allen
Chair of the WeProtect Global Alliance; Former Preside
H.E. Reem AlFalasi
Secretary General - Supreme council for Women and Children - Dubai
10:00 - 11:00
ICT Fund Hall
H.E. Ahmad Julfar
Director General - Community Development Authority - Dubai
H.E. Dr. Mugheer Khamis Al Khaili
Chairman of the Department of Community Development
H.E. Hessa Bint Essa Buhumaid
Minister of Community Development
H.E Luca Jahier
President of the European Economic and Social Committee
09:40 - 10:00
Plenary Hall
Ernesto Ottoone Ramirez
Assistant Director-General - Culture
H.E. Noura Al Kaabi
Minister for Culture and Knowledge Development
09:30 - 10:00
AD Fund Hall
Johan Verbeke
Director General
Nancy Jamal
Official Coalition Representative
Bernardino León
Director General
09:20 - 09:40
Plenary Hall
Harrison Ford
Celebrity and Philanthropist
H.E. Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi
Minister of Climate Change and Environment, UAE
08:30 - 11:00
DP World Hall
08:00 - 10:00
Dubai Municipality Hall