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Jun
12
2023
11:30—1:30 PM EDT | 4.30 - 6.30 PM BST
June 05, 2023
Sir Masood Ahmed, CGD’s President, will be joined by Laura Frigenti, Global Partnership for Education (GPE) CEO, for a conversation on “Schooling for All: Feasible Strategies to Achieve Universal Education”. After 30 years in multilateral organizations, government and non-profits, covering senior po...
Sep
8
2020
9:00—10:30 AM EDT
September 01, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating debt vulnerabilities across Sub-Saharan Africa at a time when the continent needs a massive surge in financing to fight the pandemic and its economic effects. In response, the G20 announced the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) in April to grant bilatera...
Jul
17
2020
9:00—10:30 AM EDT
June 29, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on almost every school system in the world. As schools start to reopen, education policy makers are faced with the dual challenge of getting children back into school and planning for the long-term consequences of the pandemic on the sector.
During th...
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...
Apr
20
2018
3:30—4:30 PM
April 11, 2018
The United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) bold four-year Strategic Plan sets out to deliver solutions to end extreme poverty, reduce inequality, and build resilience to crises in order to help countries achieve the 2030 Agenda. But as the UN system grapples with funding challenges, as pr...
Blog Post
February 07, 2018
Like the mythical Roman god Janus, there are two faces to most of the economies of the MENA region. We can call them the young and the old. And that the choice for MENA governments to make is not which face of Janus to support, but rather how to ensure that both can co-exist and prosper. ...
Blog Post
December 05, 2017
I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion, titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Labor” at the 10th edition of World Policy Conference. Preparing for this panel provided me with an opportunity to think more deeply about the ways in which artificial intelligence (A...
Blog Post
March 20, 2017
On the day the Trump Administration proposed considerable cuts to the US international affairs budget, including US funding for the UN, CGD hosted the outgoing head of the UN’s largest agency, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark. As she prepares to step down after eight years in the post, she will ...
Multimedia
March 16, 2017
As she prepares to step down after eight years as UNDP Administrator and head of the UN Development Group, Helen Clark joins CGD President Masood Ahmed to reflect on recent gains and consider both new and longstanding challenges facing development agencies and the United Nations in particular in the...