Devex@UNGA 78 2023 | Devex | 19 September 2023 | UN General Assembly, New York City & Online

Devex will host a series of events, High-Level Meetings on Universal Health Coverage, Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response, and TB. Join the Devex reporting team in person or online to get an inside look at the debates, opportunities, and big ideas taking place at this critical moment on the global development calendar.

We'll again host our UHC Pavilion and convene leaders on a range of other issues to include food systems, climate, financial inclusion, education, humanitarian response, and gender. We'll also cover the role of government, business and philanthropy in funding the financing gap as the development community continues to drive progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

2023 Speakers

Shameran Abed
Executive director, BRAC International

Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary-general, International Telecommunication Union

Helen Clark
Former prime minister of New Zealand, former administrator of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and former co-chair of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

William Easterly
Professor of economics, New York University, and co-director, NYU Development Research Institute

Tony Elumelu
Chair, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group; Heirs Holding; Transcorp Group & Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation

President Tarja Halonen
Former President of Finland

Dr. Vanessa Kerry
CEO, Seed Global Health, and WHO special envoy for climate change and health

Alvaro Lario
President, IFAD

Cina Lawson
Minister of digital economy and transformation, Togo

Mark Malloch Brown
President, Open Society Foundations

Amy Pope
Director-general elect, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Dr. Andrew Steer
President and CEO, Bezos Earth Fund

Rory Stewart
President, GiveDirectly

Faatiha Aayat
12-year-old United Nations, Harvard, and TEDx speaker, child rights activist, and climate campaigner

Sheeba Afghani
Senior manager, social behavior change for polio eradication, UNICEF

Sara Jane Ahmed
Global lead and finance adviser, Vulnerable Group of Twenty Ministers of Finance of the Climate Vulnerable Forum

Yemi Akinbamijo
Former executive director, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

Alice Albright
CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation

Sir Danny Alexander
Vice president, policy and strategy, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Dedo Baranshamaje
Director of strategy, Segal Family Foundation

Kelly Clements
Deputy high commissioner, UNHCR

Gavin A. Cloherty
Ph.D., head of infectious disease research and the Pandemic Defense Coalition, Abbott

Gary Cohen
CEO and co-founder, Maternal Newborn Health Innovations, PBC

Dr. Austin Demby
Minister of health, Sierra Leone

Renuka Gadde
Senior adviser, global diagnostics, CHAI

Jennifer Gersbeck
Executive director of global advocacy, The Fred Hollows Foundation

Lawrence Gostin
Distinguished professor of law, Georgetown University, and director, WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health Law

Richard Gowan
U.N. director, International Crisis Group

Anurag Hans
Head of mission at EssilorLuxottica and president at OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation

Dr. Richard Hatchett
CEO, CEPI

John Hewko
General secretary and CEO of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation

Minister Paula Ingabire
Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda

His Excellency Sakaja Arthur Johnson, CBS
Governor of Nairobi City County, Kenya

Taewee Kahrs
Senior officer, health, MIT Solve

Nasrat Khalid
Founder, Aseel

Blessina Kumar
CEO, Global Coalition of TB Advocates

Susana Malcorra
Co-founder and president of GWL Voices

Dr. Bente Mikkelsen
Director of noncommunicable diseases, World Health Organization

Jorge Moreira da Silva
Under-secretary-general and executive director, UNOPS

Sekai Mudonhi
Country representative for Malawi, Catholic Relief Services

James Mwangi
Group managing director and CEO, Equity Group Holdings, and executive chairman, Equity Group Foundation

Toby Norman
Chief Executive Officer, Simprints Technology

H.E. Noura Al Kaabi
Minister of State, UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr. Sara Pantuliano
Chief executive, ODI

Jonathan Papoulidis
Senior global director for fragility and resilience, Food for the Hungry

Lanoi Parmuat
Executive director, Ewang'an Nadede Advocacy Initiative (ENAI – Africa)

Alix Peterson Zwane
CEO, Global Innovation Fund

Kate Phillips-Barrasso
Vice president of global policy & advocacy, Mercy Corps

Joy Phumaphi
Co-chair, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board

Sabina F. Rashid
Professor and Mushtaque Chowdhury chair in health and poverty at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hannah Ryder
CEO, Development Reimagined

Surita Sandosham
President and CEO, Heifer International

Nina Schwalbe
Principal, Spark Street Advisors

Amandeep Singh Gill
Under-secretary-general and secretary-general's envoy on technology, United Nations

Vera Songwe
Chair of the board, Liquidity & Sustainability Facility

Anne Stake
Chief strategy and product officer, Medtronic LABS

Carsten Staur
Chair, OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

Stephanie von Friedeburg
Managing director, banking and capital markets advisory, Citi

Priya Vora
CEO, Digital Impact Alliance

INTERVIEWERS:

Stephanie Beasley
Senior Reporter, Devex

Catherine Cheney
Senior Editor, Devex

Anna Gawel
Managing Editor, Devex

Michael Igoe
Senior Reporter, Devex

Raj Kumar
President & Editor-in-Chief, Devex

Jenny Lei Ravelo
Senior Reporter, Devex

Colum Lynch
Senior Global Reporter, Devex

Adva Saldinger
Associate Editor/Senior Reporter, Devex

Kate Warren
Executive Vice President & Executive Editor, Devex

Alli Blount
Senior Manager, Partnerships

Richard Jones
Editorial Director, Devex

Margaret Richardson
Chief of Staff, Devex

2023 Partners

HOSTED BY:
• Devex

INNOVATION PARTNERS:
• Abbott
• AIIB
• CRS
• Food For The Hungry
• The Fred Hollows Foundation
• Heifer International
• Medtronic Labs
• One Sight
• Open Society Foundations

ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS:
• AstraZeneca
• Country Connector
• GSK
• MSD
• MSD for Mothers
• New Globe
• RBM Partnership to End Malaria
• UN WFP World Food Program USA

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• HemoCue
• Task Force for Global Health