9:00am – 10:45am    
► Panel 6 - Our changing world: building resilience and sustainability in LDCs

10:45am - 12:00pm
► Panel 7 – Trading Places: Increasing LDCs’ share in global trade

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch 

1:00pm – 2:30pm  
► Panel 8 - Mobilizing resources for sustainable development in LDCs

2:30pm - 3:00pm
Keynote speech: Professor Ha-Joon Chang, Professor in the Political Economy of Development, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University (virtual)
 

Introduced by Mr. E. Courtenay Rattray, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Conversation with Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University: ‘Mobilizing resources for sustainable development in LDCs’.  (virtual)

Moderated by Mr. E. Courtenay Rattray, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS.

Followed by interactive Q&A 
 

4:15pm - 4:30pm    
Coffee break 
 

4:30pm – 5:45pm    
Closing plenary

Moderator: Ms. Heidi Schroderus-Fox, Director, UN-OHRLLS.

• Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, President, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (virtual)

• H.E. Mr. Ville Skinnari, Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, Finland (video message)

• H.E. Ms. Suzi Carla Barbosa, Senior Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Communities, Guinea Bissau

• H.E. Mr. Perks Ligoya, Permanent Representative of Malawi to the United Nations, Chair of the Global Coordination Bureau of the Least Developed Countries

• H.E. Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations and Co-Chair of the LDC5 Preparatory Committee (virtual)

• Depuyt Permanent Representative of Canada to the UN (tbc)  

• Mr. E. Courtenay Rattray, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS