Agenda

 

8:30 Welcome

Steve Radelet

Chief Economist, USAID

 

8:35 Introduction

Rajiv Shah

Administrator, USAID

 

8:40 Opening Remarks

Judith Rodin

President of the Rockefeller Foundation

 

8:50 DevTalk

Aydogan Ozcan, Associate Professor at University California of Los Angeles; Inventor of LUCAS

Nathan Wolfe, Founder and Director of Global Viral Forecasting Initiative

 

9:00 Equitable Delivery of Health Services

Moderator: Lincoln Chen, President of China Medical Board, USA

The Honorable John Kufuor, Former President of the Republic of Ghana; Former Chairperson of the African Union

Walter Gwenigale, Minister of Health of Liberia

Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health

Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID

 

Major themes of this session will discuss the dynamics of health financing in context of rapid developing country economic growth, increased domestic affordability of health services, high out-of-pocket spending, and the crowding out of ODA and shifts in levels and sources. The session aims to support systems for increasing health coverage as an achievable post-MDG agenda item to achieve OECD levels of child deaths and an AIDS-free generation.  Some questions include: Does ODA “crowd-out” domestic health financing? What policy reforms are required to reduce high out-of-pocket health expenditures? Where do we have good examples of countries moving to more sustainable health financing systems in low income settings, and what are the lessons learned (including how to garner political will/support for policy reform)? What role do donors play in reforming financing systems?

 

10:00 Conversation: Mobile Financial Services

Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup

Rajiv Shah, Administrator, USAID

 

10:20 Mobile Technology Solutions

Moderator: Cecilia Kang, Technology Reporter for the Washington Post

Matthew Kirk, Director of External Affairs of Vodafone; Former British Diplomatic Service Member

Jay Collins, Vice Chairman of Global Banking for Citigroup

Bruce McNamer, CEO of Technoserve

Samuel Agutu, CEO and Founder of Changamka Microhealth

 

This session will focus discussion on ways technology is a catalyst for development. In what ways can the development community find and support breakthrough solutions to the world's most important development challenges—interventions with the power to change millions of lives at a fraction of the usual cost? What might some of those interventions look like? What is the role of evaluation in identifying new technology, and what methods and platforms are useful to scales those activities? What are the biggest barriers to expanding the use of mobile technology solutions to the very poor?

 

11:00 Break

 

11:30 DevTalk: Mobile Gaming

Asi Burak, Games for Change

Anne Shongwe, Founder and CEO of Afroes Transformational Multi-Media and Consulting

 

11:45 Conversation: Collaborating on Innovative Solutions for Accessible Healthcare

Sir Andrew Witty, CEO at GlaxoSmithKline

Rajiv Shah, Administrator, USAID

 

12:15 Keynote Address

The Honorable Joyce Banda

President of Malawi

 

12:40 Luncheon Commences

Healy Lawn

 

1:35 DevTalk

David Auerbach, Co-founder of Sanergy

Raj Kundra, Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Acumen Fund

Timothy Prewitt, Chemonics

 

1:50 Pressures on the Planet: Major Trends in Climate Change, Food Security, and Population

Moderator: Juliet Eilperin, Environmental Reporter for the Washington Post

The Honorable Mary Robinson, Founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative;

Former President of Ireland

Eleni Gabre-Madhin, CEO of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange

Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University

Paul Weisenfeld, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Food Security, USAID

 

By 2050, the global population is expected to increase to more than nine billion, requiring up to a 70 percent increase in agricultural production and a doubling of water needs for agriculture.  These trends and others will be highlighted in this session that will examine opportunities and tensions related to the intersection of climate change, food security, and population.  What do recent increases in urban populations mean for resource demand and our current global approach to resource management? Specifically, pertaining to sustainable development and long-term economic growth?  Given the importance of the global economy to resource decisions, how might the natural resources (water, clean air, biodiversity, etc.) already tied to essential human services be better valued by our economic system?  How might we better calculate an appropriate cost for their degradation?  What are methods for greening production chains – particularly in developing countries where markets can be more opaque? Can we tackle questions of resource demand without discussing rapidly increasing populations?

 

2:50 Break

 

3:20 Pressures on the Planet: Food Security in an Increasingly Complex Ecosystem

Moderator: Frank Sesno, Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University; Creator and Host, Planet Forward

Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation

Chris Policinski, President and CEO of Land O’Lakes

Calestous Juma, Professor at Harvard University

James Boomgard, President and CEO of DAI

 

After examining the major trends on the horizon, this panel will delve more deeply into the specific challenge of increasing food production while sustaining ecosystem function, addressing linkages between markets, food access and food availability from a developing country perspective.  The role of innovation and markets in addressing challenges of climate change, population, and energy in meeting the food gap will be highlighted, as well as the impacts on small-holder African farmers. What role does analysis of ecosystem function currently play in efforts to increase agricultural productivity?  What role does water and natural resource management play?  Have policies or practices to this end shifted as a result of climate change?  What is the role for sustainable Intensification?

 

4:20 Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development

Rajiv Shah, Administrator, USAID

Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Kathleen Rogers, President of the Earth Day Network

D avid Mohler, Chief Technology Officer of Duke Energy

Frank Sesno, Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University; Creator and Host, Planet Forward

 

Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development is a multi-year initiative focused on increasing food security and driving economic growth in the developing world through effective and affordable clean energy solutions for farmers. This effort aims to bring renewable energy technologies to all points in the agricultural value chain, including on-farm uses like water pumping, cold storage to decrease post-harvest loss, and value-added processing like grinding or drying.  USAID has been joined in these efforts by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Duke Energy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and the African Development Bank and through the Powering Agriculture Energy Grand Challenge, USAID and its partners invite innovators to help find the clean energy solutions that will empower farmers and help transform agriculture in the developing world.

9:00 DevTalk

William Jack, Georgetown University; Trade Credit Authority

Video Development Credit Authority

 

9:10 The Future of Development Assistance

Moderator: Nina Easton, Washington Bureau Chief of Fortune Magazine

The Honorable John Kufuor, Former President of the Republic of Ghana; Former Chairperson of the African Union

Chris Policinski, President and CEO of Land O’Lakes

Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University

Steve Radelet, Chief Economist, USAID

 

An interconnected global economy has increasingly provided new sources of development funding from a diverse range of actors, resulting in a proliferation of new donors, in addition to increased private investment, remittances, and philanthropy. Given this continually changing development landscape, how will the role of official assistance have to change as its relative contribution of resources shrinks? What will be the role of emerging donors, and how can traditional donors best engage them? On what basis should the effectiveness of partnerships be determined, and how can private trade and investment best be catalyzed towards mutually beneficial development goals? How can the significant financial and intellectual resources associated with remittances and migrant flows be harnessed for development? 

 

10:10 Break

 

10:40 Remarks

Thomas Nides

Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources

 

10:55 DevTalk

Joel Lamstein, Co-founder and President of John Snow, Inc.

 

11:00 Investing for Sustainable Development

Moderator: Donald Steinberg, Deputy Administrator, USAID

Emilia Pires, Minister of Finance of Timor-Leste

Amara Konneh, Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs of Liberia

Rakesh Rajani, Head and Founder of Twaweza

Paul O’Brien, Vice President for Policy and Campaigns for Oxfam America

 

One of the biggest challenges in development is sustaining progress and results over time. Sustainability involves a complex set of economic, cultural, technical, and environmental issues. What are the best strategies for sustaining results over time? How can beneficiaries be empowered to take ownership of development initiatives? How can programs be designed to build stronger capacity and strengthen local systems to achieve long-term goals?  How can policymakers address the tension between the need for achieving short-term progress with the imperative of reaching long-term goals? How can policymakers ensure results are broad-based and inclusive?

 

12:00 DevTalk: Development and Investment

Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership;

Former Minister of Health of the Republic of Senegal

Patrick Meier, Co-founder of Stand By Volunteer Task Force

 

12:45 Luncheon Commences

Georgetown University Conference Center

 

1:00 Keynote Address

The Honorable Benjamin Cardin

U.S. Senator, D-Md.

 

1:30 Transit to Gaston Hall

 

2:00 DevTalk

Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University

James Habyarimana, Georgetown University; Heckle and Chide

 

2:10 The Power of Story Telling

Moderator: Roger Thurow, Global Affairs Senior Fellow at The Chicago Council

Michael Elliott, President and CEO of ONE

Carolyn Miles, President and CEO of Save the Children

Christy Turlington Burns, Founder of Every Mother Counts

Sheryl WuDunn, Co-author of Half the Sky

 

The art of storytelling has been with us for centuries.  When done well, storytelling can invigorate an audience and teach powerful lessons. Communicating the incredible achievements that people in the developing world overcome every day is an important contribution to educating and engaging the American public in support of development.  Our panelists will share their insights on how to tell these stories in a compelling and effective way.  

 

3:05 DevTalk

Helene Gayle, CEO of CARE International

Bernard Amadei, Engineering for the Developing World

Alla Jezmir, Co-founder of EGG-energy

 

3:15 Beyond the Usual Suspects

Moderator: Liz Schrayer, Founding Executive Director of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition

Barbara Bush, CEO and Co-founder of Global Health Corps

Mandy Moore, Actress; Philanthropist

Kay Warren, Co-founder of Saddleback Church

The Honorable Jim Kolbe, Former Arizona Congressman

 

More than ever before, what happens in developing countries around the world affects America, either in terms of job creation and economic expansion, security and stability, strengthening democracy and building effective partners, fighting disease, or strengthening our role as a global leader.   As the implications of these global challenges have become more evident, new constituencies have emerged as partners that care about development.  This panel will explore how we reach new constituencies, what is driving their interest and how we can engage them as effective partners.   

 

4:15 Young Innovators

DevTalk: The Power of Youth for Social Change

Monique Coleman, United Nations Youth Champion

 

African Young Innovators

 

Roundtable

Moderator: Helen Coster, Contributing Writer at Forbes

David Auerbach, Co-founder of Sanergy

Bailey Klinger, Director of Entrepreneurial Finance Lab

James Long, Afghanistan Polling

Alla Jezmir, Co-founder of EGG-energy

 

Announcement

Rajiv Shah, Administrator, USAID