Humans of the Indo-Pacific: Reclaiming Development | Part 1 |

Developing sustainable cities is the only way ahead to battle key challenges in the Indo-Pacific. With widespread unemployment, economic turmoil, climate crisis and myriad of other socio-economic disruptions plaguing the region, could regional partnerships hold the key to rebuild innovative public financing models?

Is the Indo-Pacific in the market for a re-brand? How can the international and local parties involved re-imagine these partnerships in an increasingly divided global economy? Can social protection be achieved through new development collaborations in Asia-Pacific?

Join us as our experts deep-dive into this long-term vision for the region and sustainable investment to achieve this construct.

Speakers:

Report Release: Bruno Bosle, Country Director, AFD, France

Aaditya Thackeray, Minister of Tourism and Environment, Government of Maharashtra, India


Philippe Orliange, International Operations Executive Director, AFD,

France Javier Salido Ortiz, Director General for North America, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain

Melinda Bohannon, Director, Strategy, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom

Uduak Amimo, Acting Executive Director, Uraia Trust, Kenya

Moderator: Sunaina Kumar, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, India

The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community. Every year, global leaders in policy, business, media and civil society are hosted in New Delhi to discuss cooperation on a wide range of pertinent international policy matters.

The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation in collaboration with the Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs.