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Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
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Appendix A Workshop Agenda HIGH-SKILLED IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE GLOBAL COMPETITION FOR TALENT National Academies Keck Center 500 5th Street NW, Room 100 Washington, DC 20001 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 1:00PM WELCOME Stephen Merrill, Director Emeritus, STEP Board INTRODUCTION Jennifer Hunt, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University 1:15PM SKILLED MIGRATION IN A WORLD OF GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES Keynote speaker: Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; and Director, Science and Engineering Workforce Project, National Bureau of Economic Research 1:45PM AUDIENCE Q&A 2:15PM PANEL 1: SKILLED MIGRATION TRENDS AND POLICY EVOLUTION: A MULTILATERAL OVERVIEW Chair Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University Presentations: • Jean-Christophe Dumont, Head of International Migration Division, Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 117
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118 Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers: A Workshop Summary Discussants: Mark Giralt, Minister-Counsellor for Immigration, Embassy of Canada; Miranda Lauman, Acting Director, Americas, Embassy of Australia 3:15PM AUDIENCE Q&A 3:25PM BREAK 3:40PM PANEL 2A: COMPARATIVE SYSTEM DESIGN AND EFFECTS: Canada and Europe Chair: Subhash Singhal, Battelle Fellow Emeritus, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Presentations: • Charles Beach, Emeritus Professor, Queen's University • Madeline Zavodny, Professor of Economics, Agnes Scott College • Jonathan Wadsworth, Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London Discussant: Francis Cissna, Director of Immigration Policy, Department of Homeland Security 4:50PM AUDIENCE Q&A 5:30PM RECEPTION, Keck Center, 2nd floor prefunction area TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 8:30AM PANEL 2B: COMPARATIVE SYSTEM DESIGN AND EFFECTS: Australia, Middle East & Asia Chair: Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University Presentations: • Graeme Hugo, ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of Geography; Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre, University of Adelaide • Lesleyanne Hawthorne, Professor, International Workforce, University of Melbourne, Victoria Discussant: Ana Maria Mayda, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University 9:30AM AUDIENCE Q&A
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• William Kerr, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Discussant: William Lincoln, Assistant Professor of International Economics, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies 2:30PM AUDIENCE Q&A 3:00PM BREAK 3:15PM PANEL 5: POLICY IMPLICATIONS: A PANEL DISCUSSION Chair: Edward Alden, Bernard L Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
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120 Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers: A Workshop Summary Discussants: • Felicia Escobar, Special Assistant to the President on Immigration, White House • William Kamela, Senior Federal Policy Lead, Workforce Readiness and Immigration, Microsoft Corporation • Pia Orrenius, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas • Madeleine Sumption, Director of International Research, Migration Policy Institute • Michael Teitelbaum, Senior Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard University 4:30PM AUDIENCE Q &A 5:00PM ADJOURN
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