On October 11, 2013, policy makers attending the WBG-IMF Annual Meetings will meet for the fifth round of the Resilience Dialogue series. Exploring the impacts of disasters on poverty dynamics as well as the opportunities of resilience for poverty reduction, the speakers will highlight the need to invest in resilience to achieve poverty reduction and shared prosperity goals.

 

Speakers

Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, World Bank

Mitsuhiro Furusawa
Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Japan

Mauricio Cardenas
Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Colombia

Kristalina Georgieva @KGeorgievaEU
Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, European Commission

Rachel Kyte @rkyte365
Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank

Kittiratt Na-Ranong 
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Thailand 

Moderated by

Femi Oke  @FemiOke
Al Jazeera 

 

Send your questions to the speakers at resilience.dialogue@gmail.com or on twitter @GFDRR #resilience

     For more information about the Resilience Dialogue series, please visit www.gfdrr.org/resiliencedialogue