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Feb
8
2023
11:00—12:00 PM GMT | 6:00 - 7:00am ET
January 12, 2023
Preet Gill, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and Sir Mark Lowcock, former UN “Relief Chief”; the Department For International Development (DFID)’s longest serving Permanent Secretary; and current Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development will discuss what the future h...
Jun
9
2022
10:00—11:00 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada), 3:00—4:00pm BST, 2:00—3:00pm GMT
May 31, 2022
As the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir Mark Lowcock was known colloquially as the "Relief Chief" – tasked with coordinating the global response to save lives and protect the most vulnerable. Yet when he took the job in 2017, no one could have predicted how the n...
Apr
22
2021
8:30—10:00 AM ET
April 16, 2021
Join CGD’s Masood Ahmed for a discussion with Mark Lowcock, outgoing UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, to discuss his new and practical proposal to hold the humanitarian system independently accountable for delivering what people in crisis actually want. Human...
Apr
28
2020
12:00—12:00 PM ET
April 25, 2020
Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sir Mark Lowcock, joins CGD President Masood Ahmed to discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in fragile states and refugee communities.
Mr. Lowcock is responsible for the oversight of all emergencies req...
Oct
13
2017
1:00—2:30 PM
September 21, 2017
With more than 145 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, more than 65 million people forcibly displaced, growing risks of climate-driven natural hazards, food insecurity on the rise and four countries struggling to stave off famine, the global humanitarian system faces exceptional chall...
Apr
4
2017
10:30—12:00 PM
March 17, 2017
A protectionist stance from the US looms large as a policy concern for Latin America, where many countries have chosen a growth model based on increased integration with the rest of the world. It may force a major policy revision involving trade and financial sectors. Moreover, the region may be imp...
Apr
5
2016
10:30—12:00 PM
March 23, 2016
The new government in Buenos Aires has taken quick steps that send a strong message to the world: Argentina wants to open its markets. President Mauricio Macri’s moves to ease market distortions caused by currency controls, trade taxes, and a lack of international financing, have greatly impro...
Nov
17
2015
10:30—12:00 PM
November 04, 2015
Multiple crises in the Latin American past, including severe banking crises, have been accompanied by sharp and persistent devaluations. This time around, the impressively large currency depreciations (over 50 percent in some countries) resulting from the ongoing commodity price shock and volatile i...
Jun
3
2014
10:30—12:00 PM
May 22, 2014
A slowdown in China’s growth is a serious concern for Latin America, especially for those countries that have benefited from a record-setting boom in commodity prices since 2003. Much of the slowdown is due to structural reforms in China, partly prompted by the tepid and uncertain recovery of ...
May
21
2013
10:30—12:00 PM
May 09, 2013
For almost half a decade, the aggressive expansion of liquidity by advanced economies’ central banks aimed at reigniting growth has fueled a surge of capital inflows into Latin America. Under the influence of dizzying terms of trade and extremely low world interest rates, the region’s central banks ...