Towards Sustainable Development: Lessons from MDGs & Pathway for SDGs

The Institute for Policy, Advocacy and Governance (IPAG) will conduct a seminar titled ‘Towards Sustainable Development: Lessons from MDGs & Pathway for SDGs’, on 10th October, 2017 in New York, USA. The event will bring together key stakeholders which among others include leading development economists, development partners, academics, think tanks, researchers and policy makers to conduct thought provoking and animated discussions on the SDGs. It will provide a platform for having discussions & debates on the performance of developing economies like Bangladesh in achieving MDGs as well as the opportunities and challenges for achieving SDGs. Participation of the leading thinkers and strategists in development finance will result in having important insights into the process of effective policy formulation for achieving the SDGs.

The seminar will have thematic presentations and panel discussions on the following topics:

• MDGs & SDGs: Connecting the dotted lines
• MDGs & Bangladesh: Key Achievements and Lessons Learned
• SDGs: The Opportunities & Challenges for Developing Countries
• Role of Developed Economies in Facilitating SDGs

Key Speakers:

Finance Minister
Government of Bangladesh

Chief/Director
Sustainable Development
UNDP

Global Team Leader
SDG Philanthropy Platform
UNDP

Dr. Alaa Murabit, M.D

Sustainable Development
Goals Global Advocate
High Level Commissioner for Health
Employment and Economic Growth,
United Nations

Anthony F. Pipa

Senior Fellow
Global Economy & Development
Brookings Institute

Sarah Cliffe

Director
Center on International Cooperation
New York University

Subinay Nandy

Director
Asia & the Pacific Division
United Nations

Frank A. Wolak

Director,Program on Energy and
Sustainable Development,
Department of Economics
Stanford University

Simeon Djankov

Executive Director, Financial
Market Group (FMG),
London School of Economics (LSE)

Ronak D. Desai

India and South Asia Program
Belfer Center
Harvard Kennedy School

Ruth DeFries

Denning Family Professor
Sustainable Development
Colombia University

Jackson Ewing

Director
Asia Sustainability
Asia Society Policy Institute

Heather Grady

Vice President
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
New York University

Thangavel Palanivel

Deputy Director
Human Development
Report Office UNDP

James G. McGann

Director
Think Tanks & Civil Societies Program
University of Pennsylvania

Chantal Line Carpentier

UNCTAD Chief, New York

Lauren Bradford

Global Partnerships
Foundation Center

Swaminathan Aiyar

Research Fellow
Center for Global Liberty & Prosperity
(India & Asia), Cato Institute

Reid Hamel

Senior Fellow
Global Food Security Project
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

Anit Mukherjee

Center for Global Development

Ajit Zacharias

Senior Scholar
Levy Economics Institute
Bard College

Jenny Perlman Robinson

 Fellow
Center for Universal Education
The Brookings Institution

John Meyers

MD – North America
Swisscontact

Syed Munir Khasru

Chairman
Institute for Policy, Advocacy & Governance (IPAG)