from 16 July 2020 to 10 November 2020

Global Solutions Dialogue

URBANIZATION (AND INFRASTRUCTURE): SUSTAINABLE RESPONSES TO COVID-19

“From 1929 to 1932, the Great Depression was not only economic. It triggered regime changes in 80 countries all over the globe. In colonial Africa, the authority of traditional chiefs came apart with the arrival of colonial administration, before revealing new arenas of conflict and creating new political opportunities in the 1950’s (Chinua Achebe, 1958)."

The Global Solutions Initiative (GSI) in cooperation with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is organizing the Global Solutions Dialogue as a moderated global exchange. It will bring together ca. 30 international experts from academia, policy, finance and development cooperation and mobilize dedicated inputs from the OECD and ADBI.

The Global Solutions Dialogue aims at discussing and bringing policy solutions on 1) how can the negative effects of COVID-19 be mitigated at the urban level 2) which policies are effective in the short-term and sustainable in the long run, 3) how should they be sequenced? The objective is to identify approaches that work and devise context-sensitive strategies for their scaling and mainstreaming.

Join us for four moderated virtual plenary sessions of 120minutes each, with insights from experts and guest decision makers.

Session 1

Dialogue kick-off: how can cities help with the COVID19 pandemic?

Session 2

Operationalizing COVID19 responses with cities in the long run

Session 3

Actions, partnerships and policy solutions: an urban pathway towards the G20 2021, Part 1

Session 4

Actions, partnerships and policy solutions: an urban pathway towards the G20 2021, Part 2

Participants

(presented in alphabetical order)

ACUTO, Michele

Associate Dean (Research), Professor of Global Urban Politics and Director, Connected Cities Lab, Melbourne School of Design

AKHMOUCH, Aziza

OECD, Head of Division Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development & Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

ALLAIN-DUPRE, Dorothée

Head of Unit, Decentralisation, subnational finance and Public Investment, OECD’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

BADAKHSHI, Harun

Chief physician and Department director of Clinical Oncology at the Ernst von Bergmann Medical Center Postdam, Co-founder New Dialogues, Berlin

BHAN, Gautam

Senior Consultant, Coordinator of the Program for Working Professionals in Urban Development, Poverty and Inequality, Housing, and Planning, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)

COHEN, Michael

Director, doctoral program in public and urban policy, the New School, New York

COOK, Mitchell

Researcher, the New School

COUTEAU, Julie

Coordinatrice FIMEA Fédération Interprofessionnelle des Métiers de l'Environnement et de l’air sur le COVID19

CROCI, Edoardo

Coordinator, Green Center, Bocconi University

DEBOS, Dorothee

Coordinator, Green Economy Observatory and Smart City Observatory, Bocconi University

DROIN, Franck

GROVEN, Eric

Head of the Real Estate Division of Retail Banking Activities in France, Société Générale

HARTMANN, Gunnar

Co-founder of New Dialogues, Founder and architect at Buero Hartmann

HENDRIYETTY, Nella

Economic Development Specialist, ADBI

HIJDRA, Arjan

Director, Global Infrastructure institute

KARAPETYANTS, Irina

Professor/Director of the Institute of International Transport Communications, Co-founder, UNESCO Chair of Sustainable development and transport, Russian University of Transport (MIIT)

KOVARIK Jean-Bernard

Université Gustave Eiffel, vice president for public policies

LARASATI, Tita

Vice-president, Indonesia Creative Cities Network (ICCN) and Vice Director, ICCN special COVID19 taskforce

LENHART, Jennifer

Director, WWF Global cities initiative

LIPETSKAYA, Marina

Director, CSR-NW, Saint Petersburg

MARTA, Stefano

OECD, Head of Division Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development, OECD

MATSUMOTO, Tadashi

OECD, Head of Division Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development, OECD

MURADOV, Rovshan

Secretary General, Baku Policy Forum

NEWBEGIN, OBE John

Ambassador for creative economy to the Mayor of London

ONI, Tolullah

Global Public Health Research Programme, Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network (GDAR), University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology unit

PARNELL, Susan

Global Challenges Professor in Urban Development at the University of Bristol

RIDWANSYAH, Yusuf Achmad

Global Challenges Professor in Urban Development at the University of Bristol

SIRI, Jose

United Nations University, International Institute for Global Health

SONOBE, Tetsushi

Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

THENGWA, Chumisa

eThekwini municipality (Durban), Vice-director, environmental planning and climate protection, U20 vice sherpa

THEODOSIOU, Nicolaos

Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, SDSN Black Sea

VOGT, Carmen

GIZ-Programme Director

WRAY, Steve

Ecoconsult Solutions

How will it work?

The Solutions Dialogue will take the form of four virtual and moderated plenary sessions. They are scheduled to take place on 16 July, 3 September, 8 October, 10 November. An additional meeting in December will be organized as an option. The meetings will be supplemented by specialized working group meetings of 1h between the plenary sessions. Each session will be summarized under Chatham House rules and after completion of the dialogue series, key results will be published as a report for the use of Dialogue members.

At the same time the Dialogue will work across the G20 engagement groups and will allow for the most relevant lessons to be shared as input to the G20 to support the exploration on the feasibility of a joint recovery investment plan that reinforces multilevel governance and pools financial and human resources to tackle a degraded global order.

The results of the Dialogue will be brought up to the next edition of the Global Solutions Summit scheduled in Berlin May 27-28 2021.

Your Hosts

KUHLE, Holger

Policy Advisor, Strategic Knowledge Partnerships – GIZ and GSI Support

BUCHOUD, Nicholas

Global Solutions Fellow, Global Solutions Initiative; Owner and Associate Partner, Renaissance Urbaine, the Urban R&D company, Paris; President, Cercle Grand Paris de l’Investissement Durable – Grand Paris Alliance

HARTMANN, Gunnar

Co-founder of New Dialogues; Founder and architect at Buero Hartmann

KASTURI, Rakesh

Collaboration and Remote Facilitation Expert (Founder/CEO of sprintdoctor)

NGUYEN VAN QUOC, Thai

PhD Researcher in Environment and Spatial Planning, University of Groningen

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