8h30 — Opening

• Dra. Elena Martínez
  Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNDP (RBLAC)
• Dr. Fernando Cardesa
  Director of Technical Cooperation for Latin America of the European Union
• Minister Luiz Dulci
  Chief Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Brazil
• Minister Aldo Rebelo
  Chief Minister of the Secretariat for Political Coordination and Institutional Affairs, Brazil
• Ambassador Samuel Guimarães
  Secretary General of the Ministry of External Relations, Brazil
  

9h30 — Opening Conference

• Dr. Dante Caputo
  Coordinator of the Project on Democracy in América , Argentina.
  

10h30 – National Development, Regional Integration and Democracy

• Dr. Luis Eduardo Garzón
  Mayor of Bogota, Colombia
• Prof. Mario Telo
  University of the Brussels , Belgium
• Prof. Marco Aurélio Garcia
  Special Adviser to the Presidency, Brazil
• Minister Aldo Rebelo
  Chief Minister of the Secretariat for Political Coordination and Institutional Affairs, Brazil
  

14h00 – Democracy and Social Participation

• Profa. Margaret Keck
  Universidad John Hopkins, Estados Unidos.
• Dr. Chacho Álvarez
  Ex Vice-Presidente de Argentina
• Profa. Maria Vitória Benevides
  Universidad de San Pablo, Brasil
• Minister Luiz Dulci
  Ministro-Jefe de la Secretaria General de la Presidencia, Brasil
  

9h00 – Democracy and Federalism

• Governor Lázaro Cárdenas
  Governor of the State of Michoacán, México
• Prof. Fernando Abrucio
  Pontifícal Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC –SP and Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, FGV – SP, Brazil
• Ambassador Marcelo Fuentes
  Subsecretary of Institutional Relations, Argentina.
• Governor Ronaldo Augusto Lessa Santos
  Governor of States of Alagoas, Brazil.
• Minister Tarso Genro
  Minister of Education, Brazil
  

14h00 – An Agenda for Democracy and Social Inequality Reduction

• Dr. Antônio Guterres
  Former Prime-Minister, Portugal
• Prof. Alain Touraine
  School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France.
• Prof. Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos
  Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute – IUPERJ-, Brazil.
• Minister Patrus Ananias
  Minister of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation, Brazil.

18h00– Closing Ceremony

• President of the Repúblic of Brasil Exmo. Sr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
• Exmo. Sr. Zéphirin Diabré, Under-Secretary General of the UN and Associate Administrator of UNDP
  

19h00 – Cocktail

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