Developing the Development Model: Reengineering Aid for the 21st Century
Friday, April 12, 2013
Session Description
In an age of instant communication, strong economic growth in the south, and new geopolitical realities, why are we still using a 1960s model for aid? The global community is discussing next generation MDGs and measures for aid effectiveness. Now is the time for making practical suggestions to ensure we are not ‘rearranging deck chairs’, but engineering an aid model that both produces a high social return and is appropriate for the 21st century. What have we learned from radical innovations previously employed? What would a new model look like? How could it be implemented? Engage in a lively discussion of new approaches and potential models for success.
Time & Location
Time:
12:30 - 14:15, Friday, April 12, 2013
BST
Location:
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Speakers
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Speaker
Strategy and Editorial Director, Independent Publications Limited
Andrew M. Mwenda is currently Strategy and Editorial Director of Independent Publications Limited. Mwenda worked as Political Editor of Daily Monitor and General Manager of its affiliate FM radio, KFM before establishing The Independent in 2007. He is a winner of the International Press Freedom Award and the Outstanding Alumni Award from the British Council. He holds a MA in Development Studies from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and a BA degree in journalism from Makerere University in Uganda.
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Author, Economist
Dr. Dambisa Moyo is an international economist who analyses the macroeconomy and global affairs. She has travelled to over 50 countries and developed a unique knowledge base on the political, economic and financial workings of emerging economies. She is the author of The New York Times bestsellers 'Dead Aid'; 'How the West Was Lost'; and 'Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World.' In 2009, TIME Magazine named her one of the '100 Most Influential People in the World'.
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Speaker
Director, Akyem Law and Advisory Services Ltd
The Right Honourable Lord Paul Boateng (Baron Boateng of Akyem Wembley), a Barrister of Grays Inn, having completed a four year term as British High Commissioner to South Africa (2005 - 2009), was elevated to the Peerage in June 2010. He has 30 years’ experience in public life in law, politics and diplomacy. Until he stepped down to take the post of High Commissioner in 2005, he was a Member of Parliament (1987 – 2005), and he served as a Cabinet Minister and Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Tony Blair. He is a frequent writer, broadcaster and public speaker in Europe, Africa and the US.
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Moderator
Director, The Global Health Group
Richard Feachem, KBE, CBE, BSc, PhD, DSc(Med), FREng, HonFFPHM, HonDEng. Sir Richard is Director of the Global Health Group at UCSF and Professor of Global Health at UC, San Francisco and Berkeley. From 2002-2007, he was Founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. Dr. Feachem was formerly Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank, and Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Distinguished Teaching Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Maura O’Neill through her work in the public, private and academic sectors have created entrepreneurial and public policy solutions for some of the toughest domestic and global problems. Maura has started four companies in the fields of electricity efficiency, customer info systems and billing, e-commerce and digital education. In 1989, she was named Seattle Business Person of the Year.
President Obama appointed her the first Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Counselor to the Administrator at USAID where she had responsibility for inspiring and leading breakthrough innovations in $22 billion of foreign assistance worldwide. Maura co-led USAID Forward, the Agency's major reform initiative as well as oversaw over 600 global public-private partnerships. Groundbreaking ones included mobile money; supply chain elimination of ingredients/packaging from virgin forests; water and health interventions; gender equity and entrepreneurship. Maura is most well known for adapting venture capital and drug discovery methods to development by co-creating the Development Innovation Venture Fund. She served on the White House Innovation Cohort assisting with innovation across the federal government.
Maura was Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary at U.S. Department of Agriculture, and served as Chief of Staff in the U.S. Senate (Cantwell D-WA) addressing the 2008 financial crisis, oil price explosion, renewal of clean energy tax credits and range of domestic and international issues.
Currently at the Business School at UC Berkeley Maura received 2016 Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also has taught at Stanford and Columbia Universities and regularly advises early stage companies, global government institutions and foundations.
Maura is founding Vice Chair of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women (public charter school). She has M.B.As from Columbia University and UC Berkeley; PhD from University of Washington.
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Speaker
In 1966, as a young post-graduate student from a privileged urban background, Bunker Roy volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states. This experience changed him. He committed himself to fight poverty and inequality. He founded the Barefoot College in Tilonia (also known as Social Work and Research Centre) in 1972 to bridge the inequality gap and demystify technology with the people and put it to good use in the hands of poor communities. This radically simple approach to ending poverty, by tapping the wisdom, skills, and resourcefulness of the poor themselves, is less expensive and more successful than approaches that rely on external experts. Barefoot College recruits illiterate villagers and trains them to build and maintain life-changing technologies and systems such as solar electricity, water and sanitation, schools and clinics, artisan businesses, and community engagement.
