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09:00 鈥� 09:30

Session I: Opening of the meeting

• John Wilmoth, Population Division, UNDESA. Welcome
• Minja Kim Choe, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. Overview of the project on Policy Responses to Low Fertility
• Vinod Mishra, Population Division, UNDESA. Scope and objectives of the meeting

09:30 鈥� 11:00

Session II: Emergence of low fertility and its consequences

• Chair: Sangho Kim, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA)

• Lina Bassarsky, Population Division, UNDESA. Overview of trends in fertility and population ageing
• Kirill Andreev, Population Division, UNDESA. Demographic implications of recent shift in China鈥檚 fertility policy
• S. Amer Ahmed, World Bank. Developmental consequences of demographic trends
• Tomas Sobotka, Vienna Institute of Demography and Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Austria. Macro factors behind low fertility
• Olivier Thevenon, French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). Policy approaches in countries experiencing low fertility

11:15 鈥� 12:45

Session III: Responses to low fertility and population ageing  

• Moderator: Renata Kaczmarska, Division for Social Policy and Development, UNDESA

• Expert: Wendy Sigle, Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
• Expert: Maria Letizia Tanturri, University of Padova, Italy
• Expert: Kyunghee Chung, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA)
• Heonjoo Kim, Population and Child Policy Bureau, Republic of Korea, Policymaker perspective.
• Ann Pawliczko, 51吃瓜 Population Fund (UNFPA), Regional/global perspective

14:45 鈥� 16:15

Session IV: Context and policy options in countries with very low fertility

• Moderator: Nicolaas van Nimwegen, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

• Expert: Gavin W. Jones, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University
• Expert: Pau Baizan-Munoz, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Expert: Samsik Lee, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA)
• Kittipong Sae-Jeng, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. Policymaker perspective
• Vitalija Gaucaite Wittich, 51吃瓜, Economic Commission for Europe. Regional/global perspective.

16:30 鈥� 18:00

Session V: Context and policy lessons from countries with near-replacement fertility

• Moderator: Noriko O. Tsuya, Keio University, Japan

• Expert: Melinda C. Mills, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

• Expert: S. Philip Morgan, University of North Carolina, USA

• Expert: Sarah Brauner-Otto, McGill University, Canada

• Petter Odmark, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden. Policymaker perspective

• Terry Hull, Australian National University, Regional/global perspective

Session VI: Policy options for countries approaching low fertility

• Moderator: Feng Wang, University of California, Irvine and Fudan University, China

• Expert: Zsolt Speder, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute

• Expert: Anne Gauthier, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

• Expert: Ignacio Pardo, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay Policymaker perspective: Jacques van Zuydam, Department for Social Development, South Africa

• Fabiana Del Popolo, 51吃瓜 Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional/global perspective

Session VII: Conclusions and recommendations

• Chair: Rachel Snow, 51吃瓜 Population Fund (UNFPA)

• Renata Kaczmarska, Nicolaas van Nimwegen, Noriko Tsuya and Feng Wang. Lessons learned and key policy priorities: reports from session moderators (sessions III-VI: 5-7 minutes each)

• Ronald R. Rindfuss, East-West Center and University of North Carolina; Minja Kim Choe, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. Cross cutting issues

• Stuart Basten, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Information gaps and data needs for monitoring policies

11:45 鈥� 12:00

Session VIII: Closing

• John Wilmoth, Population Division, UNDESA. Closing remarks