11:00 - 12:00
Opening Session and Keynote Speech
Opening remarks: Ahmet Tıktık, Undersecretary, State Planning Organization, Turkey
Opening remarks: Abdüllatif Şener, Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey
Opening remarks: Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD
Keynote speech: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister, Turkey

12:15 - 13:30
Measuring Progress: Does it Make a Difference for Policy Making and Democracy?
Chairperson: Ekrem Pakdemirli, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Speaker: Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD
Speaker: David M. Walker, Comptroller-General, USA
Discussion

14:30 - 16:00
Power to the People: Indicators for Accountability
The session explored the ways in which indicators and information can empower the public to hold their policy makers to account.
Chairperson: Cathryn Ashley-Jones, Deputy Government Statistican, Social and Population Statistics, Statistics New Zealand
Speaker: Shailaja Chandra, Executive Director, National Population Stabilisation Fund, India
Speaker: Dong Dasheng, Deputy Auditor General, National Audit Office of China
Speaker: Bronwen Mamby, Senior Programme Adviser, AfriMAP, Open Society Institute, UK
Discussant: Alexander Piskunov, Member of the Board of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation

16:30 - 18:30
Roundtable: What is Progress?
The session debated what progress means in different countries of the world and among different communities of interest. Which aspects of progress are universal and which vary between different groups? This is a crucial part of the conference: we need to try to understand what progress is if we are to talk about how to measure it.
Chairperson: Jonathan Charles, former foreign correspondent for the BBC
Panelist: Kemal Derviş, Administrator, UNDP
Panelist: Richard Layard, Director, Well-being Programme, Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, UK
Panelist: Steve Killelea, Founder Global Peace Index, global businessman and philanthropist
Panelist: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Distinguished Fellow, the Brookings Institution, USA
Panelist: Jimgi Y. Thinley, Minister of Home and Cultural Affairs, Bhutan
Panelist: Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director, UNICEF
Discussion