Policy Dialogue: Democratic Governance Against Corruption
13 September 2017 • 3:00PM EDT
On September 13, 2017, the Summits of the Americas Secretariat will host an expert discussion on democratic governance and corruption to initiate preparations for the VIII Summit of the Americas to be held in Lima, Peru, in April 2018. Watch the webcast.
Wednesday, September 133 pm
Hall of the Americas - Organization of American States
17th Street & Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, D.C.
20006
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On September 13, 2017, the Summits of the Americas Secretariat will host an expert discussion on democratic governance and corruption to initiate preparations for the VIII Summit of the Americas to be held in Lima, Peru, in April 2018.
The Summit of Peru, which has a central theme of "Democratic Governance against Corruption,” will bring together the heads of state and government of the Americas, representatives of civil society organizations, indigenous peoples, youth, the private sector, labor unions and other social actors.
The session will feature world-renowned experts including Natural Resource Governance Institute president and CEO Daniel Kaufmann and will be broadcast live through the OAS website. Panelists will be answering questions from the audience and to the queries that are made on Twitter @SummitAmericas, using the hashtags #AskSummitAmericas and #MoreDemocracyLessCorruption, and through the Summit's Facebook account @SummitAmericas.
Opening Remarks
3 pm
Nestor Mendez (@NestorMendezOAS), Organization of American States (OAS) assistant secretary-general
3:10 pm
Antonio Garcia Revilla, national coordinator of Peru and chair of the Summits Process
Dialogue
3:20 pm
- Jean Michel Arrighi, secretary of legal affairs of the OAS
- Daniel Kaufmann (@kaufpost), president and CEO of the Natural Resource Governance Insititute (NRGI)
- Deborah Wetzel, senior director of the governance global practice of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
- Kevin Casas Zamora (@KevinCasasZ), former vice president of Costa Rica; senior fellow, Inter-American Dialogue; co-author of Beyond the Scandals, The Changing Context of Corruption in Latin America (IAD, February 2017)