11:00-12:00

(in ACCR)

Mike Foster MP - Department for International Development

UK Policy, Multilateral Aid, & The Politics of Development

 Will Bennett (Right to Play)

The impacts of War on Children and Youth

 Prof. Abhiney Muthoo (Warwick)

War, Conflict, and Development in an Economic Context

Thomas Winther-Smith (OECD), Gabi Hesselbein (LSE), Benny Dembitzer (Global Development Forum), Jorge Saba Abache [Via Video Message] (World Bank)

The long-term implications of the crisis on developing countries (including Q&A)

 Annie Watson (ETI), Jenny Hedman, Chair: Prof. Shirin M. Rai (Warwick)

Gender equality, aid, and development

 14:35-15:50

 Silvia Guizzardi (OECD), Dr. George Assaf (UNIDO), Prof. Chris Woodruff (Warwick)

Aid and beyond in the new global context (including Q&A)

 Suleyman Yilmaz (UN International Development Office)

Private sector Development

 Thomas Pietschmann (UN Office against Drugs & Crime)

Drugs & Development: The Afghanistan Case Study (including Q&A)

 John Hammock

A Richer Economic Development Framework: Operationalizing Human Development

Royston Maldoom (Dance United)

Working with children and Using Dance to Save Lives

 Hugh Bredenkamp (IMF), Kunibert Raffer (Vienna)

A presentation on the IMF's recently revised lending and policy framework

 Paul Kadetz (Oxford)

Resolving the Post-development Riddle: Community Agency and Positive Deviance in Guatemala, the Philippines and post-Katrina New Orleans

 Hugh Bredenkamp (IMF), Jorg Mayer (UN Division of Globalisation and Development Strategies)

Protecting the developing world against future financial crises

 Andrew Mold (OECD, Senior Economist)

Keynote Speaker forum: Embracing Emerging Economies in development