SM15 Preview: Changing the Conversation on Development Finance

Date: Friday, April 17, 2015
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | 19:00 – 20:30 GMT or convert time)
Location: World Bank Group Headquarters, Preston Auditorium & Online

Follow the event on Twitter with #Fin4Dev

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 players. Development organizations, governments, the private sector and civil society, will discuss what it will take to finance development in a post-2015 world. The discussion will showcase the latest thinking on domestic resource mobilization, private sector leverage, and development financing mechanisms, solutions and initiatives that go beyond filling financing gaps.

The discussion will also explore how the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund and regional multilateral development banks can use their unique platforms and diversity of finance and knowledge instruments to attract the financing needed to end extreme poverty and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

More information & livestream at http://live.worldbank.org/changing-the-conversation-development-finance.

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Featuring

President, World Bank Group
Secretary-General, United Nations
Michelle Fleury, BBC News
President and CEO, The Rock Creek Group
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer
President, EBRD
Prime Minister, Cote d’Ivoire
Chief Executive, Save the Children
President, European Investment Bank
President, African Development Bank
Executive Director, Sovereign Investor Institute
President, Inter-American Development Bank
Minister of International Development, Canada
Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, The Netherlands
Vice Chairman, General Electric Company
Director, Bretton Woods II
Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund