Panel 1: Progress and challenges with respect to public policies on population and development
Raúl Prebisch Conference Room
Moderator: Fernando Filgueira, Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Uruguay
• Pennelope Beckles, Minister of Planning and Development of Trinidad and Tobago
• Silvia Giorguli Saucedo, President of El Colegio de México
• Rider Abimael Cálix Santos, Director of Strategy and Foreign Cooperation, Secretariat of Social Development (SEDESOL) of Honduras
• María Soledad Cisternas Reyes, Lawyer, Professor of Law and Researcher, former member of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations
• Enrique Peláez, Researcher with the Centre for Research and Studies on Culture and Society (CIECS-CONICET) and Deputy Director of the PhD programme in Demography at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina
• John Antón Sánchez, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Higher National Studies of Ecuador (IAEN) and Deputy Chancellor of the Amawtay Wasi Intercultural University of Indigenous Nationalities and Peoples, Ecuador