Agenda for the briefing on “preventing abuse of the non-profit sector
for the purposes of terrorist financing”
7 March 2013
United Nations Headquarters, North Lawn Building, ECOSOC Chamber
10:00-10:15 Opening session
Opening statements by:
H.E. Mr. Guillermo E. Rishchynski, Permanent Representative of
Canada to the United Nations [Chair]
Mr. Jehangir Khan, Director, United Nations Counter-Terrorism
Implementation Task Force
10:15-10:35 Session I: “Risk and proportionality”
Presentation by: Mr. Alastair Bland, Director, Review and Analysis
Division, Charities Directorate, Legislative Policy & Regulatory Affairs
Branch, Canada Revenue Agency
10:35-10:55 Session II: “Communication and outreach”
Presentation by: Mr. Andrew Ogombe, Deputy Executive Director,
Kenya NGOs Coordination Board
Presentation by: Ms. Celia E. Sandejas, Chief of Staff on AML Matters,
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Presentation by: Mr. Sixto Donato C. Macasaet, Executive Director,
Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO)
10:55-11:15 Session III: “Oversight and investigation”
Presentation by: Ms. Michelle Russell, Head of Investigations and
Enforcement, Charity Commission for England and Wales
11:15-11:35 Session IV: “The way ahead”
Presentation by: Mr. Peter Romaniuk, Senior Non-Resident Fellow,
Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation
Presentation by: Ms. Elizabeth Joyce, Section Chief, United Nations
Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)
11: 35-12:00 Statements
Distinguished Representative of Australia to the United Nations
Distinguished Representative of Sweden to the United Nations
Distinguished Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations
Distinguished Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations
Distinguished Representative of the United Kingdom to the United
Nations
12:00-12:45 Interventions from the floor
12:45-13:00 Closing session
Closing statement by Mr. Mike Smith, Executive Director, CTED.