Globalisation and the Future of the Welfare State: Towards a New Social Model

Santiago, Chile

15 March

18.00 – 18.30Opening Remarks

  • Ricardo Núñez, Senator of the Republic of Chile
  • John Hutton,UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Inaugural Speech, President Michelle Bachelet

Followed by a Reception

16 March

09.00-09.15Opening Remarks

  • Alejandro Jara Weitzmann, Analysis and Planning Director, Codelco
  • Olaf Cramme, Deputy Director, Policy Network, UK

Session IIntroductory Presentations: Globalisation and the Welfare State

09.15-11.15Speakers will present an analytical and empirical overview of the shifting dimensions of socio-economic models. Specifically, the speakers will address North and South welfare state models, focusing on the new challenges to each case model in light of globalisation.

Moderator: Andrew Puddephatt, Director, Global Partners, UK

  • South American Model : Carlos Tomada, Labour Minister of the Argentinean Government
  • European Model : Tobias Dürr, Editor of Berliner Republik, Germany
  • South American Experience: Osvaldo Andrade, Minister of Labour and Social Security, Chile

11.15-11.30Coffee Break

Session IIEmerging Trends and Drivers of Change in a Global Era: New Challenges for the Welfare State

11.30-13.30The panel discussion consisting of four interventionswilladdress the new challenges and trends in light of an increasingly internationally interdependent context.

Moderator: Conrado Ramos, Advisor to the President, Republic of Uruguay

  • Simon Commander, Director, Centre for New & Emerging Markets, LondonBusinessSchool and Senior Advisor, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • Mario Marcel, Academic and former Budget Director, Ministry of Finance, Chile
  • Roger Liddle, Principle Advisorto President of European Commission, Bureau of Economic Policy Advisors
  • Andrés Velasco, Treasury Minister of the Chilean Government

The panel presentations will be followed by an open discussion

13.30-14.45Lunch

Session IIIProgressive Responses: Adapting Institutional Frameworks I

14.45-16.45Following the opening session speakers will address and debate practical challenges facing our current institutional frameworks. This session will focus on the effect external drivers of change (as addressed in Session II) have on our welfare states.

Moderator:René Cuperus, Senior Research Fellow and Director for International Relations at theWiardi Beckman Foundation, the Netherlands

  • Clarissa Hardy, Minister of Planning (Mideplan), Chile
  • Dalmer Hoskins, Senior Managing Director of Policy, AARP, US
  • Joakim Palme, Director, Institute of Futures Studies, Sweden
  • Manuel Antonio Garretón, Expert, Academic, Chile

Open Discussion

Respondent: Vusi Gumede, Chief Policy Analyst, Office of the President, South Africa

16.45-17.00Coffee Break

Session IV Progressive Responses: Adapting Institutional Frameworks II

17.00-19.00This session will follow on from Session IV, further assessing practical challenges facing our welfare states.

Moderator:Rafael Roncagliolo, Sociologist and Journalist, Chief for Andean Countries – Idea Internacional, Peru

  • Magdalena Andersson, Senior Advisor and FormerState Secretary, Ministry of Finance
  • David Coats, Associate Director - Policy, The Work Foundation, UK
  • Marco Aurelio García, Advisor to the President of Brazil
  • Paulina Veloso, Minister of the Presidency of the Chilean Government

Open discussion

20.00Dinner hosted by the Alfred Herrhausen Society

Speakers:

  • Camilo Escalona, Senator and President of the Chilean Socialist Party
  • John Hutton,UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
  • Wolfgang Nowak, Managing Director,Alfred Herrhausen Society

17 March

Session VTransformation of the Citizen/State Relationship: Analysis and Implications

09.00-10.45The speakers will discuss the changing relationship between the citizen, the market, and the state, reflecting on accountability, rights and responsibility, assets and ownership.

Moderator:Rolando Cordera, Professor at the Autonomous University of Mexico

  • Alberto van Klaveren, Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Chile
  • Tom Bentley, Executive Director, Victorian Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Australia
  • Patrick Diamond, Director, Policy Network, UK
  • Reinaldo Gargagno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Uruguay

Open discussion

10.45-11.00Coffee Break

11.00-13.00International Integration and Cooperation: How Progressives Can Learn

Session VIfrom Each Other

This session will debate and highlight the importance of international integration and cooperation among progressive governments and policy-makers.

Moderator:John Hutton, UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

  • Key Address: Ricardo Lagos, Former President of the Republic of Chile
  • Marco Aurelio García, Advisor to the President of Brazil
  • Wolfgang Merkel, Director – Democracy, SocialScienceResearchCenter(WZB), Berlin
  • Mike Moore, Former Prime Minister, New Zealand, and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Open discussion

13.00-13.30Concluding Session: Towards a New Socio-Economic Agenda

Speakers:

  • Ricardo Núñez, Senator of the Republic of Chile
  • Michiel van Hulten, Chairman of PvDA, the Netherlandsand Vice-Chair of Policy Network