Changing the Conversation on Development Finance
April 17, 2015 - Washington DC., 2015 World Bank Group / IMF Spring Meetings.
2015 is a landmark year that will define the global development agenda for the next 15 years. By year’s end, the world’s leaders are likely to adopt a new set of global development goals and reach a critical agreement on tackling climate change. Achieving both will require a paradigm shift in how development is financed.
This event will bring together all the key groups who will play a part -development organizations, governments, the private sector and civil society.
Host: Michelle Fleury, BBC News;
Speakers:Jim Yong Kim President, World Bank Group;
Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General, United Nations;
Panel:
Bertrand Badré Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer;
Afsaneh Beschloss President and CEO, The Rock Creek Group;
Børge Brende Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway;
Suma Chakrabarti President, EBRD;
Daniel Kablan Duncan Prime Minister, Cote d’Ivoire;
Justin Forsyth Chief Executive, Save the Children;
Werner Hoyer President, European Investment Bank;
Donald Kaberuka President, African Development Bank;
Scott Kalb Executive Director, Sovereign Investor Institute
Marisa Lago Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Development, United States Treasury;
Luis Alberto Moreno President, Inter-American Development Bank;
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria;
Christian Paradis Minister of International Development, Canada;
Lilianne Ploumen Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, The Netherlands;
John G. Rice Vice Chairman, General Electric Company;
Tomicah Tillemann Director, Bretton Woods II;
Min Zhu Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Photo: SImone D. McCourtie / World Bank