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Risk and Resilience: Addressing corruption risks to safeguard financing for development and climate action

September 21, 2024

UN Headquarters, New York

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Risk and Resilience: Addressing the potential impact of corruption on financing for development and climate action

As countries aim to accelerate the realization of climate targets for a sustainable future, risks of corruption threaten to undermine those results. Corruption has the potential to deviate funding allocated for this purpose and to deter climate offset and development programmes, depriving all, but particularly persons in vulnerable situations of a better life. Thus, developing robust oversight and anti-corruption frameworks are essential to safeguard the future of the next generations and to ensure that climate and development finance achieve desired outcomes for those most in need.

This session will build on the momentum achieved over the last year to catalyze a global conversation between climate, international development, and anti-corruption stakeholders to work collaboratively to prevent corruption from undermining climate and development outcomes and fueling environmental crimes. By doing so, the event seeks to address the potential impact of corruption risks on financing for development and climate action. In this way, it is expected to strengthen the role played by the fight against corruption in the full and complete implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

OBJECTIVES

Provide insights into potential risk trends
Provide insights into how emerging anticorruption tools can safeguard climate action and sustainable development finance outcomes while ensuring human rights are upheld.
Bring together government representatives, international development organizations, civil society and other stakeholders to discuss anticorruption efforts that are being taken to advance climate action and need to be scaled up to help set into practice the Pact for the Future.
Understand the unintended impacts that anticorruption measures may entail to access and costs of financing for developing countries.
Highlight findings from a joint paper on climate action and corruption risks prepared by UNODC and the World Bank. Read report

For more information, visit the Summit page here.

Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez

Global Director for Governance in the Prosperity vertical, World Bank Group

Arturo Herrera Gutierrez is the Global Director for Governance in the Prosperity vertical, World Bank Group.

Mr. Herrera joined the World Bank in 2010 as Senior Public Sector Management Specialist in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region and held various positions, before leaving the World Bank Group in 2018.

Between 2018 and 2021 he has held leadership positions in the Government of Mexico and was also the Chairman of Mexico’s Exchange Commission and Member of the Board of the Central Bank.

As Global Director for Prosperity, Mr. Herrera’s priorities include leading the formulation of strategy and engagement of the Bank’s work on public institutions and country-level governance, especially in fragile, conflict and violent settings; maximizing the effectiveness of operational support for public financial management and public procurement; fostering excellence in the Bank's Prosperity work on public sector administration and operational support for legal and judicial reforms.

Mr. Herrera has also taught Monetary and Banking and Macro and Micro Economics at both El Colegio de Mexico and New York University where he completed his doctoral studies in Economics.

Mr. Badr Abdelatty

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates

Mr. Badr Abdelatty is the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates.

Mr. Abdelatty has most recently served as Egypt's ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, and the country's representative to EU and NATO.

Before this, he was ambassador to Germany from 2015 to 2019. He has also served as deputy assistant foreign minister and the ministry's official spokesman and was the director of the public diplomacy department between 2013 and 2015.

From 2012 to 2013, Mr Abdelatty was the deputy assistant foreign minister for EU affairs and western Europe and was the national co-ordinator for the Union for the Mediterranean. He was also the deputy head of mission at the Egyptian embassy in Brussels from 2008 to 2012.

Mr Abdelatty's diplomatic experience extends to several other roles within the foreign ministry as he has had an extensive career in the Egyptian Foreign Service spanning three decades.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Political Science
Master’s degree in International Relations
Doctorate in International Relations from Cairo University (Egypt)

Corinna Gilfilla

Senior Analyst with the UNCAC Coalition

Ms. Gilfillan works with the Coalition's Environmental Crime and Corruption Working Group to advance efforts to combat environmental crime and corruption.

She brings over 20 years of work experience on anti-corruption, environmental protection and civic space issues.

Before joining the UNCAC Coalition, Corinna was Head of the US Office for Global Witness, leading the organization’s U.S. advocacy. She played a leading role in securing passage of groundbreaking legislation to promote transparency in the natural resource sector and served on the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

Earlier in her career, Corinna worked at the United Nations Environment Programme, promoting compliance with environmental treaties.

Education:

Master’s degree in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)

Francine Pickup

UNDP’s Deputy Director in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS)

Ms. Francine Pickup is UNDP’s Deputy Director in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS).

Prior to her appointment, Francine was Resident Representative in Serbia, Resident Representative a.i. / Country Director in India and Deputy Country Director in Indonesia.

Before that, she worked as the Strategic Planning Advisor in RBAP and led the UN’s Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit under the Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General in Iraq.

Francine joined the UN in 2002, working with OCHA in Lebanon, Palestine and New York, as well as the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) and FAO in Palestine, and ILO in Central Asia. Aside from the UN, she has worked with several development organisations, including Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the World Bank.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University (UK)

Ghada Fathi Waly
Director-General/ Executive Director of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)/ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Ghada Fathi Waly is the Director-General/ Executive Director of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)/ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) since 1 February 2020, following her appointment by Secretary-General António Guterres. She holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Ms. Waly's work experience includes 28 years in the field of poverty reduction and social protection. She served as Minister of Social Solidarity of Egypt from March 2014 until December 2019. She also served as the Coordinator of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Social Justice and chaired the Executive Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs in the League of Arab States from 2014 to 2019. She was the Chairperson of Nasser Social Bank, a pro-poor developmental financial institution. She chaired the boards of the National Center for Social and Criminology Research, the National Fund for Drug and Addiction Control and the National Authority of Pensions and Social Insurance, which serves 25 million Egyptians.

Prior to that, she held leadership positions as Managing Director of Social Fund for Development (SFD), a multimillion-dollar SME Fund, and as Assistant Resident Representative for poverty reduction at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), where she was responsible for coordinating the Millennium Development Goals reports and launched the National Strategy for Micro Finance. She was also Program Director of CARE International in Egypt, working in the field of poverty alleviation, and Chairperson of the Red Crescent Association.

Ghada Waly holds an MA and a BA from Colorado State University (US) in Humanities; she also holds a diploma in international development and a diploma in Project Management and is certified in Micro Finance from University of Colorado Boulder. She is fluent in Arabic, English and French and has a working knowledge of Spanish.

Dr Ketakandriana Rafitoson

Vice-Chair of Transparency International

Dr. Ketakandriana Rafitoson is is the Vice-Chair of Transparency International and served as the Executive Director of TI Madagascar from 2018 to 2024.

Dr. Ketakandriana “Ke” Rafitoson is currently working as the Global Executive Director of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP), a movement striving for a better governance of extractive industries in more than 50 countries. Moreover, Ke is a member of the International Board of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) and sits within the Advisory Board of the African Women Against Corruption Network (AWACN). In Madagascar, Ke co-founded several social movements aiming at citizens political empowerment and promoting social justice

Education:

PhD in Political Science
PhD in Sociology for Development
Lecturer, local democracy and citizens engagement at the Catholic University of Madagascar.

Pavel Ernesto Isa Contreras
Minister of Economy, Planning, and Development
Pavel Ernesto Isa Contreras, Dominican, holds a degree in Economics from INTEC, obtained in 1988. He also holds a master's degree in Economic Policy from the National University of Costa Rica, obtained in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, earned in 2003.

From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, he worked as a researcher at CIECA, an economic think tank in the Dominican Republic, and as the director of research at CRIES, a regional network for social and economic research in Latin America and the Caribbean. He also served as an economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Development in the Dominican Republic.

He was the officer in charge of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and served as the research coordinator for the Office of Human Development (OHD) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Dominican Republic. He has worked as a research professor at INTEC, affiliated with the Dominican Observatory of International Trade.

His academic work has focused on topics such as international trade, trade policy, human development, social policy, and rural development. His publications have appeared in various academic journals, and he has taught at universities in the Dominican Republic, Central America, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the United States.
H.E Salem Saeed Al Ghafan Al Jabri
Minister Assistant of Military and Security Affairs
H.E Salem Saeed Al Ghafan Al Jabri was appointed Minister Assistant of Military and Security Affairs from 13th May 2024.

H.E served in the Armed Forces for 48 years, and was appointed several high rank positions during his service and retired as a Lieutenant General.

Education:
- Zayed II Military College and graduated as a Lieutenant – Abu Dhabi (1982 – 1984).
- Joint Command and Staff Course – Abu Dhabi (1999 – 2000).
- Joint Command and Staff Course – UK (2002 – 2003).
- US Army War College Course – Carlisle (2006 – 2007).

Tine Mørch Smith

Director General, Department for Multilateral Affairs

Ms. Tine Mørch Smith is the Director General of the Norwegian Department for Multilateral Affairs

Prior to her appointment in 2023 she served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Norway to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva from 2020, furthermore Mørch Smith was Director General of the Department of Regional Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway from 2015 to 2020.

She participated in the Executive Course at the Norwegian Defense University College the spring of 2020.

From 2010 to 2014 she was Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations in New York. Prior to that Mørch Smith served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director of the Section for Human Rights and Democracy and as Senior Adviser in the Section for Humanitarian Affairs.

She was based as an Attaché/Second Secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal from 1997 to 2000.

Education:

Cand. philol (MA) in History, University of Oslo

Mr. Vinicius Marques de Carvalho

Minister of State of the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU)

Mr. Vinicius Marques de Carvalho is Minister of State of the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU)

Vinicius has held this position since January 2023. He presided Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) from 2012 to 2016. He has also held the positions of Secretary of Economic Law, CADE Commissioner and Chief of Staff at the Special Secretariat for Human Rights, among others.Vinicius was named Yale Greenberg World Fellow in 2016.

Education:

Law degree, University of Sao Paolo (USP)
Doctorate in Law, University of Sao Paolo (USP)
Doctorate in Comparative Law, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he acted as visiting professor
Professor Doctor, USP, 2014-present

14.30 – 14.35	Introduction to the topic and panel participants Moderator, UNDP
14.35 – 14.40	Opening remarks Ms. Ghada Waly, Executive Director, UNODC
14.40 – 15.10	Question 1: How does corruption impact financing for development and climate change? H.E. Pavel Isa, Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, Dominican Republic Lt. Col. Dana Humaid, Director General of International Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Interior, UAE Corinna Gilfillan, Senior Analyst, UNCAC Coalition’s Environmental Crime and Corruption Working Group Colombia / Green Climate Fund TBC
15.10 – 15.40	Question 2: Can you provide any examples of anticorruption tools that are serving to counter corruption as it links to financing for development and climate change? H.E. Mr. Vinícius Marques de Carvalho, Minister of State, Office of the Comptroller General (CGU), Brazil Arturo Herrera, Global Director, Governance, The World Bank Ms. Ketakandriana Rafitoson, Vice-Chair, Transparency International IMF TBC
15.40 – 15.45	Closing remarks

Risk and Resilience: Addressing corruption risks to safeguard financing for development and climate action

Risk and Resilience: Addressing the potential impact of corruption on financing for development and climate action

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