On Monday, 28. June 2021 the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University London and the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University hosted an expert webinar discussion and presentation of its new report.
Five of the authors of our proposal “Securing Private Sector Participation and Policy Space for Sustainable Development” – Shamshad Akhtar, Kevin P. Gallagher, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Moritz Kraemer and Ulrich Volz – presented its key elements and calls for action.
They were joined by the following keynote speakers:
- Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- José Antonio Ocampo, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
- Louis Kasekende, Executive Director, Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa