Session 11: Financing for Development: What Comes next - Development Finance

October 13, 2023

Chair: Kalpana Kochhar, Director, Development Policy and Finance, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Speakers:

Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

Hanan Morsy, Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Papa Amadou Sarr, Executive Director, Mobilisation Partnerships and Communication, Agence Française de Développement

Daouda Sembene, CEO, Africa Catalyst

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Columbia University

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