Development Day 2015 `Finance for Sustainable Development` May

Development Day 2015
‘Finance for Sustainable Development’
May 11
SITE, Stockholm School of Economics
Stora Salen (entry through Holländargatan 32)
8.30-9.00
Conference registration.
9.00-9.05
Welcome
Anders Olofsgård, SITE.
9.05-9.20
Opening Speech
Isabella Lövin, Minister for International Development Cooperation (invited)
9.20-10.30
Presentations
John McArthur, Brookings Institution, “Nine Priorities for the Addis Ababa
conference on Financing for development?”
Raj Desai, Georgetown University, “Private Aid and the Financing of Development”
10.30-10.50 Coffee break
10.50-12.40 Presentations
Amadou Sy, Brookings Institution, “Financing Africa's Sustainable Development”
Theo Talbot, Centre for Global Development, ”Making Cents: Choosing the Right
Instruments to Catalyze Private Investment in Developing Countries”
Dean Yang, University of Michigan, “Migration, Remittances and Economic
Development”
12.40-13.40
Lunch
13.40-15.10
Panel 1: A changing financial landscape: ODA, private aid
and private investments
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Sida
Kerstin Hessius, Tredje AP Fonden
Aaron Atteridge, Stockholm Environment Institute
Anneli Rogeman, We Effect
Staffan Tillander, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Amadou Sy, Brookings Institution
15.10-15.30
Coffee break
15.30-16.00
Presentation: States of Fragility 2015,
Jolanda Profos, OECD
16.00-17.30
Panel 2: Fragile States and Remittances
Gary Milante, SIPRI
Annika Sundén, Sida
Sadia Hassanen, Mångkulturellt Centrum
Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, IDPS-OECD
Julian Egan, International Alert
Dean Yang, University of Michigan
17.30-17.35
Closing Remarks
Torbjörn Becker, SITE
19.00-
Conference Dinner (by invitation)
Date: Monday May 11, 2015, Starting with registration at 08.30 – 09.00
Place: Stockholm School of Economics, Stora Salen. Entry Holländargatan 32!
RSVP: Monday, May 4, gun.malmquist@hhs.se, Phone: 08-736 96 72
or on SITE’s website here www.tiny.cc/devday2015