OPENING PLENARY AND KEYNOTE SPEECHES at conference room Willem van Croy

"Comparative administrative ethics: setting the stage"

Chair: Prof. Terrel L. Rhodes (Portland State University, US, chair of the ASPA ethics section)

• Welcome by the conference co-chairs
Prof. Carole L. Jurkiewicz (Louisiana State University, US) and Dr. Jeroen Maesschalck (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

• Ethics and integrity policy in the Flemish government
Mr. Geert Bourgeois (Flemish Minister of Public Administration, Foreign Policy, Media and Tourism, Belgium)

• Keynote Speech: Comparative observations concerning administrative ethics in Europe and the US: a constitutional perspective (pdf)
Prof. John A. Rohr (Virginia Polytechnic & State University, US)

• Keynote Speech: Comparative observations concerning administrative ethics in Europe and the US: the perspective of quantitative research (pdf)
Mr. Jeremy Pope (co-director of Tiri and founder and former director of Transparency International, UK)

• Professor Rohr's questions for discussion

MEETINGS OF THE WORKSHOPS: 1

• Workshop 1: Concepts and Theories
• Workshop 2: The Ethical Administrator
• Workshop 3: Integrity and Ethics Management
• Workshop 4: New Developments and the Ethics of Governance
• Workshop 5: The Dark Side of Ethics

Participants are invited to discover culinary Leuven
A few recommended restaurants by the city of Leuven (it might be useful to make a reservation)

"Administrative ethics research in Europe and the US: state of the art and questions for the future"

Chair: Prof. James S. Bowman (Florida State University, US)

• State of the art of administrative ethics research in the US (pdf)
Prof. Donald C. Menzel (President of ASPA, US)

• State of the art of administrative ethics research in Europe
Prof. Alan Doig and Prof. Alan Lawton (Teesside University, UK)

• Challenging questions for the future from an American perspective
Prof. Terry L. Cooper (University of Southern California, US)

• Challenging questions for the future from a European perspective
Prof. Leo Huberts (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

“Ethics management: beyond symbolic acts”

Chair: Prof. Carol W. Lewis (University of Connecticut, US)

• Janos Bertok (principal administrator, OECD Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development)

• Daryl Balia (chief director, ethics, Office of the Public Service Commission, South Africa)

• Bas van Delden (director, Amsterdam Bureau of Integrity, Netherlands)

• Mr. Antti Turkama (head of division and chairman of the working group on values, Finnish National Bureau of investigation)

CLOSING PLENARY at conference room Willem van Croy

"Comparative administrative ethics: concluding observations"

Chair: Prof. Donald C. Menzel (president of ASPA, US)
Against the background of the remarks made by the keynote speakers during the opening plenary, the workshop chairs briefly report on the comparative issues that came up during their discussions.