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Fireside Chat with Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank

January 23, 2024
Tokyo, Japan

Schedule

Opening Remarks

Keisuke Iida
Dean, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo

Open Conversation (Fireside chat)

Ajay Banga
President, World Bank 

Naoko Ishii
Director, Center for Global Commons / Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo

Q&A Session

We welcome proactive questions from students.

Closing Remarks

Keisuke Iida
Dean, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo

Preview of the Event

  1. The world is fraught with multifaceted and intertwined crises including climate change, pandemic, food security and geopolitical tensions. How can we safeguard the global public goods, the very foundation of human prosperity?
  2. The divide between the global north and south has been increasing when international collaboration is needed more than ever. How best can we create global mechanism to address the division?
  3. What is the strategy of the World Bank to navigate this uncharted sea? What role can youth play to address the global challenge?

EVENT DETAILS

  • DATE/TIME: 12pm-1pm, Tuesday January 23, 2024 (JST)
  • FORMAT: Onsite (There will be no online delivery. )
  • VENUE: Ito Hall, Ito International Research Center, The University of Tokyo (Hongo)
  • LANGUAGE: English (no interpretation to Japanese)
  • CONTACT: Secretariat, Risks in the Global Economy:Analysis and Policy Research Unit Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo 
  • ifi_tg@ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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Ito Hall, Ito International Research Center, The University of Tokyo (Hongo)