To PEN-L List: I think the following conference notice might be of interest to many of you. I apologize if you receive cross-postings of this note. Kai Mander Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *****BRETTON WOODS REVISITED***** An Intergenerational Conference Featuring Many of the Founders and Early Leaders of the Bretton Woods System October 15-17, 1994 Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire Sponsored by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - **AN INVITATION** The goal of the Bretton Woods Revisited conference is to create a dialogue between the generations concerning the ability of the Bretton Woods institutions (the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to respond to contemporary and future challenges. Join a diverse group of globally oriented policy makers and public interest leaders as they gather with nearly forty founders and early leaders of the postwar multilateral world economy. Not only do these founders have a wealth of firsthand knowledge about the creation of the Bretton Woods institutions and the GATT, but they also are in a unique position to analyze their development and comment on their capacity to meet today's challenges. This opportunity is unlikely to come again. Underlying our interest in multilateral economic institutions is our concern about the mounting economic, social, and environmental challenges of the post-Cold War world. Because we believe that the best way to address global problems is through multilateral bodies, we want to understand the history surrounding the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT, and to explore their capacity to respond to current and future planetary challenges. We are convening the Bretton Woods Revisited conference to facilitate critical discussion and to encourage networking between and within the generations. This is a conference where you can expect to share your ideas, learn from other perspectives, and engage in a substantive discussion about the future of the global economy and multilateral institutions. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - **KEYNOTE SPEAKERS** Edward M. Bernstein was the Chief Technical Advisor and Executive Secretary for the U.S. Delegation to the Bretton Woods Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 and the first Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1946-1958). Since then Mr. Bernstein has participated in a variety of government projects, including the Treasury Department's Advisory Committee on International Monetary Arrangements (the Dillon Committee) (1965- 68) and OMB's Advisory Committee on Presentation of the Balance of Payments (1975-76). From 1974 until 1989 he was the Director of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Bernstein is a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Harlan Cleveland worked with the Board of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration during World War II. In the immediate postwar years he was an official with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency UNRRA), serving as the Director of UNRRA's China office from 1947 to 1948. Since then he has held numerous government positions, including Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1961-65) and U.S. Ambassador to NATO (1965-69). Mr. Cleveland is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Planning at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, where he was Dean from 1980 to 1987. Paul H. Nitze worked with the Board of Economic Warfare, the Foreign Economic Administration, and the United States Strategic Bombing Survey during World War II. Since then he has held numerous government positions, including Director of Policy Planning, Department of State (1950-53); Assistant Secretary of Defense (1961-63); Secretary of the Navy (1963-67); Deputy Secretary of Defense (1967-69); Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters (1985-88); and Ambassador-at-Large (1986-1989). A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Nitze is diplomat-in-residence at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. Tran Van-Thinh was an official with the Commission of the European Communities from 1961 until his retirement in February 1994. During these years he held a wide variety of positions, including Principal Administrator responsible for textile negotiations, and Head of the Permanent Delegation of the European Communities to the International Organizations in Geneva. Most recently, Mr. Van- Thinh served as the European Union's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the GATT in charge of trade negotiations during the Uruguay Round. He also served as a Special Advisor to Sir Leon Brittan, the European Union's chief trade negotiator. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - **AGENDA** OCTOBER 15 Registration (12:00-4:00 p.m.) Reception (4:00-6:00 p.m.) Keynote Speech: Edward M. Bernstein (5:00 p.m.) Dinner (6:00 p.m.) Keynote Panel (7:00-8:00 p.m.) Toward Bretton Woods: International Economic Problems in the Interwar Period Moderator: Richard N. Gardner Presenters: Edward M. Bernstein Aron Broches Roberto de Oliveira Campos Felipe Pazos Louis Rasminsky OCTOBER 16 MORNING SESSION (9:00-12:00 p.m.) I. Building the Postwar World Economy: The Birth of the Bretton Woods System Moderator: Jack Warren Presenters: Raymond Mikesell: Contrasting Views of the Post-World War II Economy and the Roles of the Fund and Bank at Bretton Woods Simon Reisman:The Birth of a World Trading System: the ITO/GATT Raymond Vernon: The Role of American Leadership Sir Alexander Cairncross: A British Perspective on Bretton Woods Victor Urquidi: Reconstruction v. Development: the IMF and World Bank Discussants: Richard Demuth/John Leddy This panel will be followed by a discussion between the audience and the panelists. Luncheon (12:00-1:30 p.m.) Keynote Speech: Paul H. Nitze AFTERNOON SESSION (2:00-5:00 p.m.) II. Fifty Years of Bretton Woods: Adapting the System to a Changing World Moderator: Alfred Reifman Presenters: Jacob J. Kaplan: Bretton Woods and European Reconstruction Margaret Garritsen de Vries: Changes in the World Economy and Their Impact on the IMF William Diebold, Jr.: From ITO to GATT, and Back? Andrew Kamarck: World Bank: Challenges and Creative Responses Julio Lacarte-Muro: Adaptations in the World Trading System Discussant: John W. Gunter This panel will be followed by a discussion between the audience and the panelists. Dinner (6:00 p.m.) Roundtable (7:00-8:00 p.m.) Political and Institutional Coordination in a Multilateral World Economy Moderator: Sir David Pitblado Presenters: Jacques Reinstein Charles Merwin Nathaniel Samuels Willis C. Armstrong OCTOBER 17 MORNING SESSION (9:00a.m.-12:00 p.m.) III. Challenges for the Bretton Woods System Moderator: Seymour J. Rubin Presenters: Robert Solomon: The Uncertain Future of the Exchange Rate Regime Isaiah Frank: Post-Uruguay Round Trade Policy for a Global Economy Barend de Vries: Challenges and Opportunities for the World Bank Joseph Greenwald: Regionalism, Multilateralism, and American Leadership Fred Sanderson: Agriculture and Multilateralism Discussant: Walter Salant This panel will be followed by breakout sessions looking at the future of the Bretton Woods system in light of key contemporary issues, including: the environment, development, human and labor rights, multilateralism and democracy, multilateralism and regionalism, the globalization of financial markets, institutional reform, integrating the former Communist countries, and the impact of the informatics revolution on the Bretton Woods system. Luncheon (12:00-1:30 p.m.) Keynote Speech: Tran Van-Thinh AFTERNOON SESSION (2:00-4:00 p.m.) IV. Beyond Bretton Woods: New Ideas for New Problems Moderator: John White, Director of the Center for Business and Government, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Presenters: Susan Aaronson, George Washington University, Departments of History and Economics Charles Abugre (invited), The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC)/Third World Network, Ghana Steve Charnovitz, Competitiveness Policy Council Kim Elliot, Institute for International Economics C. Randall Henning, Institute for International Economics Diana Ponce-Nava, United Nations Environmental Program Jan Pronk (invited), Minister of Foreign Development Aid, The Netherlands Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy This panel will be followed by a discussion between the audience and the panelists. Closing Remarks: Harlan Cleveland (4:00 p.m.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - **PANELISTS** Willis C. Armstrong. Official in Lend-Lease and Foreign Economic Administration (1941-45); advisor on state trading, Department of State (1946-48); various senior economic positions, Department of State (1948-63); Minister for Economic Affairs, American Embassy, London (1964-67); President, U.S. Council, International Chamber of Commerce (199-72); Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1972-76). Aron Broches. Netherlands Economic Mission, Washington (1942-46); Secretary, Netherlands Delegation to Bretton Woods Monetary and Financial Conference, 1944; with World Bank (1946-79), as General Counsel (1959-79), vice president (1972-79), and president's council member (1965-79); secretary general, International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (1967-80), member, panel of arbitrators (since 1980). Sir Alexander Cairncross. Economic advisor, U.K. Board of Trade (1946-49); Director, Economics Division, Organization of European Economic Cooperation (1950); Professor of Applied Economics, University of Glasgow (1951-61); Head of British Government Economic Service (1964-69); President, Royal Economic Society (1968-70); Chancellor, University of Glasgow (since 1972). Richard Demuth. With World Bank (1946-73), as Assistant to the President (1946-47), Assistant to Vice President (1947-51), Director, Technical Assistance (1951-61), and Director, Development Services Department (1961-73); led World Bank missions to Brazil, Suriname, Burma, Spain, and Turkey; with law firm of Surrey & Morse, Washington (since 1973). William Diebold, Jr. Research Secretary of the Economic and Financial Group of the Council on Foreign Relations' War and Peace Studies Project (1939-45); consultant to Department of State (1941-43); with Department of State's Division of Commercial Policy (1945-47); in succession, staff economist, Director of Economic Studies, Senior Fellow, and Senior Fellow Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations (since 1947). Baron Cecil de Strycker. Former Governor, National Bank of Belgium. Roberto de Oliveira Campos. Member, Brazilian delegation to the Bretton Woods Monetary and Financial Conference, 1944; Director, General Manager, and President of National Economic Development Bank of Brazil (1952-59); Secretary-General, National Development Council (1956-59); Ambassador for Financial Negotiations in Western Europe (1961); Ambassador to U.S. (1961-63); Minister of State for Planning and Coordination (1964-67); member, Inter-American Committee for the Alliance for Progress (1964-67); Ambassador to U.K. (1975-82); member of the Brazilian Senate. Barend de Vries. Research Associate, Cowles Commission, University of Chicago (1946-48); economist, Research Department and Exchange Restrictions Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1949- 55); World Bank (1950-84), successively as economist and division chief in Latin America Department, Chief Economist for Latin America and West Africa, Deputy Director of the Economics Department, Director, Creditworthiness Studies, Senior Advisor for Industrial Policy; Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution (1984-86); lecturer Georgetown University (1985-89). Margaret Garritsen de Vries. With International Monetary Fund (IMF), as Senior Economist (1946-53), Assistant Chief, Exchange Restrictions Department (1953-57), Chief, Far Eastern Division (1957- 58), as consultant (1963-73), and as official historian (1973-87); with Georgetown University (1958-63). Isaiah Frank. With Department of State (1945-63), as Director, Office of International Trade (1957-59), Director, Office of International Financial and Development Affairs (1961-62), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1962-63); Executive Director, President's Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy (Williams' Commission) (1970-71); William L. Clayton Professor of International Economics, the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University (since 1963). Richard N. Gardner. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations (1961-65); member President's Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy (Williams' Commission) (1970-71); U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1977-81); Consultant to Secretary of the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (1992); U.S. Ambassador to Spain (current). Joseph Greenwald. With Department of State (1947-69), as international economist (1947), Chief, Commercial Policy Branch Office of International Trade (1955-58), Director, Office of International Trade (1963-65), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Trade (1965-69); U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (1969-72); Ambassador to the European Communities (1972-76); private legal consultant on trade and finance issues (since 1976). John W. Gunter. Office of International Finance, Treasury Department (1940-48); U.S. member of Greek Currency Committee (1949-51); alternate U.S. representative to the Tri-Partite Committee on German Debts (1951-53); Middle East Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1953-77); private consultant (since 1977). Andrew Kamarck. Senior economist, Office of International Finance, Treasury Department (1945-48); Treasury representative to the Marshall Plan (1948-50); with World Bank, as Chief of Africa Section (1950-64), Director, Economics Department (1965-70), Director, Economic Development Institute (1972-77); Associate Fellow, Harvard Institute of International Development (1979-86). Jacob J. Kaplan. With Department of State working on foreign aid problems (1943-48); Assistant Chief and Chief European Regional Organizations staff of ECA and successor organizations (1951-55); advisor on European economic reconstruction, including U.S. Representative to the EPU managing board (1955-59); Assistant Coordinator, Mutual Security/Foreign Assistance Program, Department of State (1959-61); Director, International Development Organizations Staff, AID (1962-64); private consultant on international finance and economics (since 1987). Charles P. Kindleberger. Researcher in international trade and finance for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1936-39), the Bank for International Settlements (1939-40), and the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1940-42); Chief, division of German and Austrian Economic Affairs, Department of State (1945-48); professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1951-76), professor emeritus (since 1976). Julio Lacarte-Muro. Uruguayan Delegate to World Conference on Trade and Employment, Havana (1948); Deputy Executive Secretary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1947-48); Minister of Industry and Trade, Uruguay (1967); member of the Development Planning Committee of the UN (1968-77); Director for Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries of UNCTAD (1978- 1980); Chair, Institutional Issues Group of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1986-93); Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations and other international organizations (since 1989). John Leddy. With Department of State (1941-61), as Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1957- 58), Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1958-59), Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State (1959-61); Assistant Secretary, International Affairs Department, Department of Treasury (1961-62); U.S. Executive Director, World Bank (1962); Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1963-65); Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1965-69); Member of the Board, Atlantic Council of the United States (1970-88). Charles Merwin. Mission for Economic Affairs, American Embassy, London (1943-46); with International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1946- 70), as senior economist and Chief of Western European Division (1946-55), Assistant Director, European Department (1955-64), Deputy Director, African Department (1964-77); Chairman, IMF Retirees Association (since 1980). Raymond Mikesell. U.S. Delegation to Bretton Woods Monetary and Financial Conference, 1944; member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (1955-57); Senior Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (1970-74); consultant to the World Bank (1968-69 and 1990-91); Professor Emeritus, economics, University of Oregon. Felipe Pazos. Assistant to Ministry of Finance, Cuba (1941-42); Commercial Counselor, Cuban Embassy, Washington (1942-46); Cuban Delegation to Bretton Woods Monetary and Financial Conference, 1944; Director, Division of Latin American Affairs and Deputy Director, Department of Economic Studies, International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1946-49); President, Banco Nacional, Cuba (1949-52); member, Committee of Nine, Alliance for Progress (1964); former President, Banco Central de Venezuela. Sir David Pitblado. Under Secretary for Economic Planning, U.K. Treasury (1949-51); Financial Attach, British Embassy, Washington, D.C. (1956-58); Vice Chairman of the Board, European Payments Union (1958-60); Executive Director for World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in U.K. (1961-63); various economic posts in British Government (1965-76). Louis Rasminsky. League of Nations Official (1930-39); Canadian Delegation to Bretton Woods Monetary and Financial Conference, 1944; Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1946-62); Governor, Bank of Canada (1961-73); Chair, International Development Research Center, Ottawa (since 1973). Alfred Reifman. Various foreign aid and trade policy positions with Department of State in Washington and Paris (1946-72); Senior Fellow in International Economics, Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress (since 1972). Jacques Reinstein. With Department of State (1936-71), as Assistant Chief, Division of Financial and Monetary Affairs (1944-45) and Associate Chief (1945-46), Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1946-49), Director, Office of German Affairs (1956-58), Professor, International Economic Affairs Foreign Service Institute (1963-67), Coordinator, 2nd U.N. Development Decade (1969-71); Board of Directors, the Atlantic Council of the United States (since 1972). Simon Reisman. Canadian Delegation to World Conference on Trade and Employment, Havana (1948); delegate to all sessions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1948-54); Department of Finance, Canada (1954-1964); Deputy Minister of Finance(1970-75); Chief Negotiator for Canada of Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Seymour J. Rubin. Assistant legal advisor on economic affairs, Department of State (1946-48); legal advisor to U.S. delegations negotiating the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1946-47); U.S. representative to United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (1967-69); Professor Emeritus for International Law, American University. Walter Salant. Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisors (1946-52); consultant to Economics and Finance Division, NATO (1952-53); Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution (1954-76), emeritus (since 1977). Nathaniel Samuels. Economic advisor to Marshall Plan and European Coal and Steel Community (1948-54); with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1955- 1969); Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1969-72); U.S. alternate representative to the IMF, the World Bank, the Inter- American Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (1969-1972); Chairman, International Basic Economy Corporation (since 1972). Fred Sanderson. With Department of State (1946-59); Director, Finance Division, Organization of European Economic Cooperation (1959-62); planning and coordinating staff, Department of State (1971-73); Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (1974-83); Senior Fellow, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy (since 1992). J. Robert Schaetzel. With Department of State (1945-72), as Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945- 59), Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1961-62), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Atlantic Affairs (1962-66), U.S. Ambassador to the European Common Market (1966-72). Gunther Schleiminger. German Federal Ministry for the Marshall Plan (1950-52); Chair, Secretary to Group of Ten (1963-1964); Executive Director for International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Federal Republic of Germany (1968-74). Robert Solomon. With the Federal Reserve Board (1947-76); Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisors (1963-64); Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution (1976-80); Guest Scholar, the Brookings Institution (since 1980). Victor Urquidi. Mexican Delegation to the Bretton Woods Monetary and Financial Conference, 1944; economist, World Bank (1947-49); advisor, Ministry of Finance, Mexico (1949-51); UN Economic Commission for Latin America, Director of Mexico Office (1952-58); advisor, Ministry of Finance and Bank of Mexico (1958-64); President, El Colegio de Mexico (1966-85); research professor emeritus, El Colegio de Mexico (since 1989). Raymond Vernon. With Department of State (1942-54), as Assistant Director Trading and Exchange Division (1942-46), Acting Director of Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy (1954); member U.S. delegation to GATT Geneva (1950) and Torquay (1951) rounds; Vice Chairman U.S. delegation to GATT Geneva round (1952); special consultant to Under Secretary of State (1962); Director Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1973-78); special consultant to Department of Treasury (1978-79); Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (since 1983). Jack Warren. With World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)(1954-57); Canadian Delegation to Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and NATO (1957-58); Assistant Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce (1958-64); Chair, GATT Contracting Parties (1962-65); Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce (1964- 71); Ambassador to U.S. (1975-77); Canadian Coordinator for the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (1977-79); Chair, Bank of Montreal (1983-90); principal advisor on trade policy, Government of Quebec (since 1986). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - **CONFERENCE REGISTRATION** Bretton Woods Revisited Saturday, October 15 - Monday, October 17, 1994 PLAN A For those staying at the Mt. Washington Hotel and Resort conference site. Includes conference registration fees, all materials, and coffee breaks; lodging at the Mt. Washington Hotel and Resort on Saturday and Sunday nights; Saturday evening banquet; Sunday breakfast, luncheon, and evening banquet; and Monday breakfast and luncheon. (Contact the Mt. Washington Hotel at 1-800-258-0330 if you also wish to stay over on Monday night.) Your registration fee is refundable if notification of cancellation is received at least 21 days prior to the conference. (All fees in U.S. dollars.) Advanced Reservations (by August 15): Single occupancy $485.00 Double occupancy $427.50 (per person) Regular Reservations (after August 15): Single occupancy $535.00 Double occupancy $477.50 (per person) Includes all New Hampshire taxes and gratuities. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. Guests arriving before 3:00 p.m. will be accommodated as rooms become available. Check-out time is 11:00 a.m. The hotel requests that guests attending functions on their day of departure check out by 11:00 a.m. Arrangements can be made for luggage storage. PLAN B For those not staying at the Mt. Washington Hotel and Resort conference site. Includes conference registration fees, all materials, and coffee breaks; Saturday evening banquet; Sunday luncheon and evening banquet; and Monday luncheon. (All fees in U.S. dollars.) Advanced Registration (by August 15): $240.00 Regular Registration (after August 15): $290.00 Includes all New Hampshire taxes and gratuities. For off-site lodging and travel information, contact the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Scholarships available for students and nonprofit organizations. Please make checks payable to: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy 1313 Fifth St. SE, Suite 303 Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 phone: 612-379-5980 fax: 612-379-5982 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preconference mini-sessions will be held in Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston. 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