Institut Veolia Environnement

Conference

"Public services and management: designs, issues and implications for local governance"

University of Toulouse, January 12-13-14th 2006

An indicative list of topics (not limitative) that were addressed by the conference is:

  • Public versus Private Ownership of Infrastructure,
  • Local Governments and their Relationships with the Private Sector: "Governance or
  • Government,''
  • Public-Private-Partnerships in Developing Countries,
  • Design of Concession Contracts,
  • Private Finance Initiative: Issues and Perspectives,
  • Bidding for Concession Contracts and its Impact on Competition,
  • Empirical Analysis,
  • Studies by Sectors,
  • For Profit and Non-Profit Firms in Public-Private-Partnerships.

On the theme: "Public-Private Partnership: main perspectives" on top of normal sessions, there was also a special Round Table involving major panelists:

  • Henri Proglio (CEO, Veolia Environnement)
  • Claude Martinand ( President, Institut de la Gestion Déléguée)
  • Jean Tirole (Scientific Director, IDEI)
  • Hartmut Mehdorn (President, Deutsche Bahn) Antonio Estache (World Bank and ECARES, Bruxelles)
  • Germaine Gibara ( Co-Chair of the board of the Institute for Research on Public Health) - to be confirmed

Scientific Committee:

  • Marcel Boyer (CIRANO, Université de Montréal),
  • Antonio Estache (The World Bank and ECARES Bruxelles),
  • Eduardo Engel (Yale University),
  • Oliver Hart (Harvard University),
  • Marc Ivaldi (IDEI, EHESS),
  • Jonathan Levin (Stanford University),
  • David Martimort (IDEI, Université de Toulouse),
  • David Sappington (University of Florida),
  • Amartya Sen (Harvard University),
  • Steve Tadelis (Stanford University),
  • Jean Tirole (IDEI, Scientific Director),
  • Porter K. Wheeler (Infrastructure Management Group, Inc.).