Overview
The third meeting of the Webinar Series on the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses will provide a platform for business registration stakeholders and the national statistical offices to consider a concrete set of actions to strengthen the management of national unique identifiers for businesses in countries, the mapping to globally unique identifiers, and the access for statistical purposes to this information by National Statistical Offices for developing and maintaining Statistical Business Registers.
The Webinar Series on the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation More information is available online at: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/business-stat/Webinar-Unique-BusinessID.cshtml.
Programme
7:00 am - 7:15 am (New York time)
Opening remarks
- ▪ Stefan Schweinfest, Director, United Nations Statistics Division
- ▪ Stefano Menghinello, Chair of UNCEBTS
7:10 am - 8:00 am
Plenary presentations
Chair: Monica Canafoglia, UNCITRAL
- 1. Recap of the first two webinars - Hank Hermans, Chair task Team on Statistical Business Register, Director Economic Statistics at Statistics Netherlands
- 2. Fostering the LEI as unique identifier of financial and non-financial companies for statistical purposes: Work of the CMFB - Robert Kirchner, Deputy Director General, Data and Statistics at the Deutsche Bundesbank, the central bank of Germany
- 3. IMF Perspective on Global Initiative for Unique Business Identifiers - James Tebrake, Deputy Director of the Statistics Department, IMF
Question & Answer session
8:00 am - 8:50 am
Panel discussions
Chair: Ivo Havinga (UNNES)
Roundtable discussions The panel will address some of the biggest challenges faced by organization for the management of national unique identifiers for businesses in countries, and the access to this information by National Statistical Offices for developing and maintaining Statistical Business Registers. The panel will also discuss how to the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses could help to address these challenges and improving the linkage of business records for statistical purpose, also from the perspective of data used in the international supply chains relevant for the trade statistics.
Panelists:
- ▪ Gerard Hartsink, Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Digital Standards Initiative (ICC DSI) - Speaking notes
- ▪ Vibeke Oestreich Nielsen, Inter-Regional Adviser on Statistical Training and Capacity Building, UNSD
- ▪ Dobromir Christow, Senior Economist, World Bank
- ▪ Numa Freire De Magalhaes, Sr. E-Government specialist, World Bank
8:50 am - 9:15 am
Recommendations on the way forward
▪ Julian Chow, Chief of Business Statistics Section, UNDESA
- Recommendations on the way forward - Julian Chow
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:30 am
Closing remarks
- ▪ Ricco Dun, GLEIF
- ▪ Monica Canafoglia, UNCITRAL
- ▪ Hank Hermans, CBS
- ▪ Ivo Havinga, UNNES
- ▪ Julian Chow, UNSD