February 28, 2025 | 14:30-16:00
UN City, Copenhagen & online
Bold solutions and coordinated international action are critical if we are to emerge from today’s polycrisis toward a fairer, safer, and more prosperous world.
The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. The Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global toward these interlinked goals, and explores potential pathways out of today’s polycrisis – an environment where multiple and interconnected challenges are impacting the world simultaneously.
Luis Felipe López-Calva, World Bank Global Director for Poverty and Equity, and Ketil Karlsen, Director for Africa, Development Policy, and Financing at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will discuss the report’s key findings, which will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with experts from the private sector, NGOs, and academia. We invite you to join this important discussion in person, as well as the post-event reception at UN City, which will provide an opportunity to continue the conversation with experts and peers.
Speakers
Aissatou Maisha Dicko
Moderator
Head, World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement
Marie Gad Hansen
Presenter
Director, Global Development and Sustainability at the Confederation of Danish Industry & Vice Chair at the BIAC Development Committee
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva
Presenter
Global Director for Poverty & Equity World Bank
Charlotte Slente
Presenter
Secretary General of the Danish Refugee Council
Ketil Karlsen
Presenter
Director for Africa, Development Policy, and Financing Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Maria Eugenia Genoni
Presenter
Senior Economist, Poverty & Equity, World Bank
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