The Norad Conference 2023
Program
09.00-10.00 Leadership in turbulent times
The world we want when we are 50 / Vanessa Nakate, Climate activist
Welcome to The Norad Conference / Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General, Norad
Risks and responsibility / Bjørg Sandkjær, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Speech / Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation
A call for leadership / Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, UN
10.00-10.30 Break
10.30-12.00 Climate & inequality
Speech / Wanjira Mathai, Managing Director, Africa and Global Partnerships, WRI
Climate and Inequality - launch of the World Inequality Report / Lucas Chancel, PSE Affiliate Researcher, Co-Director, and Philipp Bothe, Economist. Both World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics
A talk on inequality and what needs to be done / Lucas Chancel and Marianne Marthinsen, Director, strategy, insight and analysis, Finance Norway
China's Path from Poverty to the Gilded Age / Yuen Yuen Ang, Professor of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University
12.00-12.40 Lunch
12.40-14.00 Financing the future
Climate Action and the World Bank Group Roadmap / Mari Pangestu, Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank
The cost of a safer future - launch of report / Lars Loe, Policy Director, Norad
Scaling up financing for development, climate and nature / Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Fellow at the Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics
How to finance the future? / Amar Bhattacharya (Brookings/LSE), Wanjira Mathai (WRI), Mari Pangestu (World Bank), Bård Vegar Solhjell (Norad)
14.00-15.00 Hva kan Norge gjøre?
Samarbeid for å nå målene / Svein Tore Holsether, President and CEO, Yara
Hvilket ansvar bør Norge ta? / Astrid Hoem, leader Worker’s Youth League, Ola Svenneby, leader Norwegian Young Conservatives, Gina Gylver, leader Nature and Youth. Moderator: Nora Rydne, E24
Thank you! / Jorun Nossum, Master of Ceremonies