Solving the Global Pensions Crisis II: The Privatization Revolution


March 9, 2000


8:00–9:00 a.m.

 


Registration
—Ballroom Foyer Continental Breakfast
 

9:00–9:15 a.m.  

Opening Remarks—Grand Ballroom

Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute

9:15–10:00 a.m.

 

    

Keynote Address

“The Worldwide Revolution in Pension Reform” José Piñera, Former Secretary of Labor and Social Security, Chile; Co-Chairman, Project on Social Security Privatization, Cato Institute
 

10:00–10:15 a.m.

 

Break
 

10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

 

 

Success Stories: Evaluating Privatization in Practice

Panel Chair: Henry Hsiang, American International Companies

Hugo Santa María, Head of Research & Chief Economist, Apoyo Consultoria S.A., Peru

Felipe Ortiz de Zevallos, President, APOYO Institute, Peru

Jacobo Rodríguez, Assistant Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute

Fernando Solís Soberón, President, CONSAR, Mexico

Tomasz Frontczak, President, AIG-PTE, Poland
 

12:00–1:30 p.m.

 

 

Luncheon—Terrace Room

Doug Atkin, President and CEO, Instinet Corporation
 

1:30–2:30 p.m.

 

 

Variations on Privatization

Panel Chair: Daniel Mitchell, Heritage Foundation

Nick Sherry, Senator for Tasmania, Australia

David Willetts, MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Social Security, Great Britain

Göran Normann, President, Normann Economics International, Sweden
 

2:30–2:45 p.m.   Break

2:45–5:00 p.m.

 

Technical Issues: Making Privatization Work

William Shipman, Principal, State Street Global Advisors

Shane A. Chalke, President & CEO, AnnuityNet.com

Derek Winegard, American Skandia Marketing

Drake Mosier, CEO, Emergent Advisors

Ermanno Pascutto, Former Executive Director, Ontario Securities Commission
 

 
March 10, 2000


8:00–9:00 a.m.

 


Registration—Ballroom Foyer Continental Breakfast
 

9:00–10:15 a.m.

 

 

Why Social Security Should Be Privatized—Grand Ballroom

Panel ChairL Leanne Abdnor, Alliance for Worker Retirement Security

Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute

Tim Penny, Former Congressman (D–Minn.)

Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute
 

10:15–10:30 a.m.

 

Break
 

10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

 

Special Cases: A Look Ahead

Panel Chair: Stewart Ritchie, Scottish Equitable plc

Klaus Friedrich, Chief Economist, Dresdner Bank AG, Germany

Milton Ezrati, Chief Investment Officer, Nomura Capital Management

Boris Nemtsov, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Russia

Sun Jianyong, Deputy Director-General, Department of Social Insurance Funds Supervision

O-Seong Kweon, Director of Public Policy Division, Center for Free Enterprise, Korea
 

12:00–1:30 p.m.

 

 

Luncheon—Terrace Room

Jack Kemp, Co-Director, Empower America; 1996 Republican Vice Presidential Candidate
 

1:30–2:00 p.m.

 

 

Closing Remarks

Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute
 


* invited

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