Fragility Forum 2018: Managing Risks for Peace and Stability | The World Bank | 5 March 2018 | The World Bank, 1818 H St NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA

The world today faces a resurgence of violent conflict, giving rise to historically high levels of forced displacement and humanitarian need. Climate change, famine, pandemics and other global risks interconnect to create a complex fragility landscape, affecting both low- and middle-income countries. The World Bank Group (WBG) is strengthening support to address fragility, conflict and violence (FCV), to achieve its goals to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity.

Under the theme Managing Risks for Peace and Stability, the 2018 Fragility Forum will bring together policy makers and practitioners from humanitarian, development, peace and security communities to share practical solutions and explore innovative ways to improve development approaches to foster peace and stability.

2018 Speakers

Abdallah Al Dardari
Senior Advisor, Reconstruction In Mena World Bank

Abdi Moalin Abdullahi
Manager, Human Development, Resilience And Social Development Islamic Development Bank

Achim Wennmann
Executive Coordinator Geneva Peacebuilding Platform

Aditya Dasgupta
Assistant Professor Of Political Science University Of California

Adrian Morel
Acting Director, Conflict & Fragility The Asia Foundation

Ahlem Nasroui
Tunisian Blogger

Ahmadou Moustapha Ndiaye
Senior Advisor, Governance Global Practice World Bank

Albert Motivans
Head Of Data And Insights Equal Measures 2030

Albert Zeufack
Chief Economist, Africa Region World Bank

Alessandra Guedes
Regional Advisor On Intra-family Violence Pan American Health Organization

Ajaya Dixit
Executive Director Institute For Social And Environmental Transition In Nepal

Albert Motivans
Head Of Data And Insights Equal Measures 2030

Albert Zeufack
Chief Economist, Africa Region World Bank

Alessandra Guedes
Regional Advisor On Intra-family Violence Pan American Health Organization

Ajaya Dixit
Executive Director Institute For Social And Environmental Transition In Nepal

Albert Zeufack
Chief Economist, Africa Region World Bank

Alessandra Guedes
Regional Advisor On Intra-family Violence Pan American Health Organization

Alexander Avanessov
Special Advisor On Preventing Of Violent Extremism Undp

Alexandre Marc
Chief Specialist, Fragility, Conflict And Violence World Bank

Ali Bety
High Commissioner 3n

Annika Söder
State Secretary For Foreign Affairs
Ministry For Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Alice Albright
Chief Executive Officer Global Partnership For Education

Andrés Villaveces
Senior Scientist In The Division Of Violence Prevention, Center For Disease Control

Anna Azaryeva Valente
Child Protection Specialist, Unicef

Annette Dixon
Vice President, South Asia, World Bank

Anton E. Edmunds
Ambassador To The United States, St. Lucia

Ayan Mahmoud
Senior Programme Coordinator, Intergovernmental Authority On Development (Igad)

Bruce Jones
Vice President And Director For Foreign Policy Brookings Institution

Bernard Harborne
Lead Technical Specialist, Social Urban And Resilience World Bank

Björn Gillsäter
Special Representative To The United Nations World Bank

Cindy Huang
Senior Policy Fellow Center For Global Development

Candy Crowley
Broadcast Journalist

Caren Grown
Senior Director, Gender World Bank

Cécile Mazzacurati
Secretariat, Progress Study On Youth, Peace And Security Un Population Fund / Peacebuilding Support

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
Senior Director, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation World Bank

Chloe Fevre
Senior Violence Prevention Specialist World Bank

Clare Lockhart
Co-founder And Director, Institute For State Effectiveness

Claudia Bürkin
Head, Division For Governance And Stabilization, East Africa Kfw Development Bank

Corinna Gilfillan
Head Of Us Office Global Witness

Cornelius Williams
Associate Director And Global Chief Of Child Protection Unicef

Cristina Hoyos
Head, Latin America And The Caribbean Unit Geneva Centre For The Democratic Control Of Armed Forces

Dana Burde
Associate Professor And Director For International Education New York University

Daniel Lederman
Deputy Chief Economist, Middle East And North Africa World Bank

Daniel Owen
Program Manager, Global Program For Reintegration Support World Bank

Daniela Ligiero
Chief Executive Officer Together For Girls

Danilo Türk
Former President ,slovenia

Dean Piedmont
Managing Director The Preventing/countering Violent Extremism Initiative

Deborah Wetzel
Senior Director, Governance Global Practice World Bank

Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf
Minister Of Women And Human Rights Development Somalia

Dominique Michel Favre
Minister Permanent Mission Of Switzerland To The United Nations
Geoff Handley
Senior Public Sector Specialist World Bank

Ej Hogendoorn
Deputy Program Director, Africa Crisis Group

Elena Ianchovichina
Lead Economist World Bank

Eric Mvukiyehe
Research Group, Impact Evaluations (Dime) World Bank

Eric Rosand
Director The Prevention Project: Organizing Against Violent Extremism

Erica Westenberg
Governance Programs Director Natural Resource Governance Institute

Erica Westenberg
Governance Programs Director Natural Resource Governance Institute

Erin Mccandless
Director, Forging Resilient Social Contracts The New School

Ernest Massiah
Practice Manager, Health, Nutrition & Population World Bank

Ewen Macleod
Senior Advisor To The High Commissioner Un High Commissioner For Refugees

Faine Greenwood
Harvard University

Fairlie Chappuis
Policy And Research Division Programme Manager Geneva Centre For The Democratic Control Of Armed Forces

Fatima Abo Alasrar
Senior Analyst Arabia Foundation

Fauziya Abdi Ali
Preventing Violent Extremism Specialist, Africa Regional Center Undp

Félix Moloua
Minister Of Economy, Planning And Cooperation Central African Republic

Femi Oke
Journalist Al Jazeera

Franck Bousquet
Senior Director, Fragility, Conflict & Violence Group World Bank

François Baillon
Ceo International Humanitarian Infrastructure Partnership

Frank Mars
Board Member Mars Incorporated

Gidon Bromberg
Director Ecopeace Middle East

Gloria La Cava
Senior Social Scientist, Eastern Europe And Central Asia World Bank

Greta Massetti
Branch Chief In The Division Of Violence Prevention Center For Disease Control

Grevisse Ditend
Administrator Uepnddr, Democratic Republic Of The Congo

Guangzhe Chen
Senior Director, Water Global Practice World Bank

Guy Aho Tete Benissan
Executive Committee Chair Civil Society Platform For Peacebuilding And Statebuilding

Guy Lamb
Director Of Safety And Violence Initiative University Of Cape Town

Habib Ur Rehman Mayar
Deputy Secretary General G7+ Secretariat

Helene Grandvoinnet
Lead Governance Specialist World Bank

Hans Born
Assistant Director And Head Of Policy And Research Division Geneva Centre For The Democratic Control Of Armed Forces

Hart Schafer
Vice President, Global Themes World Bank

Hassan Ali Khayre
Prime Minister Somalia

Helena Puig Larrauri
Managing Director Build Up

Hernando Zuleta
Director, Center For Studies On Economic Development Universidad De Los Andes, Colombia

Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow And Deputy Director Brookings Institution

Husein Abdul-hamid
Senior Education Specialist World Bank

Imad Najib Fakhoury
Minister Of Planning And International Cooperation Jordan

Imogen Parsons
Head Of Humanitarian Innovation And Research Department For International Development, United Kingdom

Ita Sheehy
Director Of Education Un High Commissioner For Refugees

Jacob Shapiro
Associate Professor, Politics And International Affairs Princeton University

Jacqueline Lacroix
Manager, Data And Insights Peacetech Lab

Jago Salmon
Partnership Advisor United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office

James Turpin
Chief, Prevention And Sustaining Peace Section United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights

Jean-marc Chataigner
Ambassador, Special Envoy For The Sahel French Ministry For Europe And Foreign Affairs

Jehanzaib Khan
Independent Consultant

Jim Yong Kim
President World Bank Group

Joëlle Jenny
Associate, Weatherhead Center For International Politics Harvard University

Joëlle Jenny
Associate, Weatherhead Center For International Politics Harvard University

Joji Tokeshi
Country Director, Afghanistan Cordaid

Jon Kurtz
Senior Director For Research And Learning Mercy Corps

Joran Bjällerstedt
Ambassador Sweden

Joseph Nhan-o'reilly
Head Of Education Policy & Advocacy Save The Children

Joyce Banda
Former President Malawi

Julian Jamison
Senior Behavioral Economist, Poverty And Equity Global Practice World Bank

Karen L. Freeman
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator Usaid

Kate Somvongsiri
Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator Usaid

Kathryn Bolles
Health And Nutrition Global Director Save The Children

Katie Peters
Senior Research Fellow, Risk And Resilience Overseas Development Institute

Keiko Honda
Chief Executive Officer Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

Keiko Miwa
Manager, Education Global Practice World Bank

Keith Hansen
Vice President, Human Development World Bank

Kelly T. Clements
Deputy High Commissioner Un High Commissioner For Refugees

Kevin Carey
Lead Economist, Macroeconomics And Fiscal Management World Bank

Khalid Payenda
Deputy Minister Of Finance Afghanistan

Kimberly Brody Hart
Senior Manager, Global Affairs And Partnerships Search For Common Ground

Kimberly Gire
Founder Global Women Leaders Strategic Philanthropy

Larry Aber
Willner Family Professor Of Psychology And Public Policy New York University

Laura Tuck
Vice-president, Sustainable Development World Bank

Les Cutter
Program Manager - Last Mile Mobile Solutions World Vision International

Michael Gersonmaggie Lake
Cnn Money Anchor And Correspondent Cnn

Mahmoud Mohieldin
Senior Vice President World Bank

Malin Herwig
Advisor, Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding Undp

Maninder Gill
Director, Social, Urban, Rural And Resilience Global Practice World Bank

Marc-andré Bünzli
Head Expert, Water And Sanitation Group Swiss Agency For Aid And Cooperation

Marc-andré Franche
Chief, Financing For Peacebuilding Un Peacebuilding Support Office

Marcel Stoessel
Senior Advisor, Fragility, Conflict And Violence Swiss Agency For Development And Cooperation

Margaret Myers
Director, Latin America And The World Program Inter-american Dialogue

Maria J. Stephan
Director, Program On Nonviolent Action Us Institute Of Peace

Marie Edan
Task Team Leader, Agriculture, Rural Development & Biodiversity Agence Française De Développement

Mario Aguja
Secretary General Inter Parliamentary Forum On Security Sector Governance In South East Asia

Mark Bryson-richardson
Director Stabilisation Unit, United Kingdom

Martin Bille Hermann
State Secretary For Development Policy Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Of Denmark

Martin Dahinden
Ambassador To The United States Of America Switzerland

Martin Spicer
Director, Blended Finance International Finance Corporation

Maryam Abeiderrahmane
Chief Operating Officer Tiviski Dairy

Matthew Scott
Director Of Fragile Contexts And Peacebuilding World Vision International

Matthew Wyatt
Head Of Conflict, Humanitarian And Security Department Department For International Development, United Kingdom

Mattias Lundberg
Senior Economist, Jobs Cross-cutting Solutions Area World Bank

Maxine Tanya Hamada
Fellow National Endowment For Democracy

Melanie Greenberg
Ceo Alliance For Peacebuilding

Melanie Robinson
Executive Director For The United Kingdom World Bank
Washington Post

Mohamad Elhage
Mission Chief For Somalia And Syria ,international Monetary Fund

Nancy Lindborg
President Us Institute Of Peace

Nathalie Lintvelt
Head, Migration And Development Department Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Of The Netherlands

Nazanin Ash
Vice President, Policy And Advocacy International Rescue Committee

Neal Keny-guyer
Chief Executive Officer Mercy Corps

Nick Gardner
Country Manager, Sierra Leone Un Office For Project Services

Nina Weisenhorn
Senior Advisor, Education In Crisis And Conflict Usaid

Noella Richard
Youth Global Programme Manager Undp

Nuno Nunes
Global Displacement Tracking Coordinator Un Migration Agency - International Organization For Migration

Nurudeen Lemu
Director, Research & Training Da’wah Institute, Islamic Education Trust

Oscar Fernández-taranco
Assistant Secretary-general For Peacebuilding Support United Nations
Nancy Lindborg
President Us Institute Of Peace

Nathalie Lintvelt
Head, Migration And Development Department Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Of The Netherlands

Nazanin Ash
Vice President, Policy And Advocacy International Rescue Committee

Neal Keny-guyer
Chief Executive Officer Mercy Corps

Nick Gardner
Country Manager, Sierra Leone Un Office For Project Services

Nina Weisenhorn
Senior Advisor, Education In Crisis And Conflict Usaid

Noella Richard
Youth Global Programme Manager Undp

Nuno Nunes
Global Displacement Tracking Coordinator Un Migration Agency - International Organization For Migration

Nurudeen Lemu
Director, Research & Training Da’wah Institute, Islamic Education Trust

Oscar Fernández-taranco
Assistant Secretary-general For Peacebuilding Support United Nations
Nancy Lindborg
President Us Institute Of Peace

Nathalie Lintvelt
Head, Migration And Development Department Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Of The Netherlands

Nazanin Ash
Vice President, Policy And Advocacy International Rescue Committee

Neal Keny-guyer
Chief Executive Officer Mercy Corps

Nick Gardner
Country Manager, Sierra Leone Un Office For Project Services

Nina Weisenhorn
Senior Advisor, Education In Crisis And Conflict Usaid

Noella Richard
Youth Global Programme Manager Undp

Nuno Nunes
Global Displacement Tracking Coordinator Un Migration Agency - International Organization For Migration

Nurudeen Lemu
Director, Research & Training Da’wah Institute, Islamic Education Trust

Oscar Fernández-taranco
Assistant Secretary-general For Peacebuilding Support United Nations

Ousmane Diagana
Vice President, Human Resources World Bank

Pascal Masuba
Young Leader Search For Common Groundpaul Collier

Paul Collier
Professor Of Economics And Public Policy University Of Oxford

Paul Spiegel
Director, Center For Humanitarian Health Johns Hopkins University

Peter Darvas
Senior Economist, Education World Bank

Peter Ellehøj
Policy Specialist On Youth, Migration And Extremism Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Philippe Le Houérou
Chief Executive Officer International Finance Corporation

Quscondy Abdulshafi
Activist Sudan

Rachel Scott
Head, Crises And Fragility Unit Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Development

Rachel Vogelstein
Director, Women And Foreign Policy Program Council On Foreign Relations

Rebecca Wolfe
Director For Peace And Conflict Mercy Corps

Rhoda Nanre Nafziger-mayegun
Board Member And Founding Executive Director Lynx

Richard Atwood
Chief Of Staff International Crisis Group

Roger Thurow
Senior Fellow Chicago Council On Global Affairs

Rüdiger König
Director General Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Ruth Simpson
Senior Lead, Development, Impact & Learning, Menainternational Alert

Ruti Levtov
Director Of Research, Evaluation And Learning Promundo

Saba Ismail
Executive Director And Co-founder Aware Girls

Saku Akmeemana
Principal Specialist, Governance Department Of Foreign Affairs And Trade, Australia

Samuel Bonnet
Loeb Fellow Harvard University

Sanam Naraghi-anderlini
Co-founder And Executive Director

Sandy Africa
Head Of Sub-saharan Africa Division Geneva Centre For The Democratic Control Of Armed Forces

Sara Batmanglich
Peace And Conflict Adviser Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Development

Sarah Cliffe
Center On International Cooperation New York University

Sarah Lister
Director, Oslo Governance Center Undp

Sarah Mendelson
Distinguished Service Professor Of Public Policy And Head Heinz College

Saverio Krätli
Editor Nomadic Peoples

Seth Kaplan
Professor Johns Hopkins University

Shaazka Beyerle
Senior Fellow Us Institute Of Peace

Shantayanan Devarajan
Senior Director, Development Economics World Bank

Sheldon Himelfarb
President And Ceo Peacetech Lab, Us Institute Of Peace

Sherri Goodman
Senior Fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center

Showers Mawowa
Deputy Director South African Liaison Office

Simon Gill
Acting Managing Director And Head, Public Finance & Institutions Overseas Development Institute

Siobhan O'neil
Project Lead, Children And Extreme Violence United Nations University

Snezana Vuksa-coffman
Deputy Chief, Security Sector Reform Un Department Of Peacekeeping Operations

Soukeyna Kane
Country Director, Chad, Guinee, Mali And Niger World Bank

Stephen Kinuthia Mwangi
Administrative Coordinator And Co-founder Mathare Social Justice Centre

Tara Vishwanath
Lead Economist World Bank

Teresa Whitfield
Director, Policy And Mediation Division Un Department Of Political Affairs

Thikra Mohammed Jabir Alwash
Mayor Baghdad

Thomas Kontogeorgos
Chief, Ddr Section Un Department Of Peacekeeping Operations

Tilman Brück
Founder And Director International Security And Development Center

Tim Evans
Senior Director, Health, Nutrition & Population World Bank

Timothy Kotin
Ceo And Co-founder Superfluid Labs

Tobias Meier
Key Account Manager, Vice President Swiss Re

Ulrich Mans
European External Action Service

Utz Pape
Economist, Poverty And Equity Global Practice World Bank

Vebjørn Aalandslid
Senior Advisor
Statistics Norway, Division For Development Cooperation

Vyjayanti Desai
Program Manager, Transport And Digital Development World Bank

Waleed Abdelwahab
Director General, Country Relation And Services Islamic Development Bank

Wangui Kimari
Participatory Action Research Coordinator Mathare Social Justice Centre

Xavier Devictor
Advisor, Fragility, Conflict And Violence World Bank

Yannick Du Pont
Founder And Director Spark

Yves Daccord
Director-general International Committee Of The Red Cross

Zavqizoda Zavqi Amin
First Deputy Minister Of Economic Development And Trade Republic Of Tajikistan

Zeynu Jamal
Deputy Director Administration For Refugee & Returnee Affairs, EthiopiaWaleed Abdelwahab
Director General, Country Relation And Services Islamic Development Bank

Wangui Kimari
Participatory Action Research Coordinator Mathare Social Justice Centre

Xavier Devictor
Advisor, Fragility, Conflict And Violence World Bank

Yannick Du Pont
Founder And Director Spark

Yves Daccord
Director-general International Committee Of The Red Cross

Zavqizoda Zavqi Amin
First Deputy Minister Of Economic Development And Trade Republic Of Tajikistan

Zeynu Jamal
Deputy Director Administration For Refugee & Returnee Affairs, Ethiopia

2018 Sponsors & Partners

• Global Program on Forced Displacement
• Korea Trust Fund
• State and Peacebuilding Fund
• UN-World Fragility and Conflict PartnershipTrust Fund

Partners
• Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Brookings Intitute
• Club de Madrid
• Department for International Development, United Kingdom
• EcoPeace Middle Esat
• European Union External Action - European External Action Service
• Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Force
• Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
• German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development
• Global Partnership for Social Accountability
• Harvard Kennedy School
• Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
• Institute for State Effectiveness
• International Committee of the Red Cross
• International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding
• International Finance Corporation
• Islamic Development Bank
• Islamic Development Bank
• Mathare Social Justice Centre
• Mathare Social Justice Centre
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Overseas Development Institute
• Oxfam International
• Prevention Project
• Stabilisation Unit, United Kingdom
• The Asia Foundation
• The Asia Foundation
• UNDP
• US Institute of Peace
• USAID
• World Economic Forum
• World Food Programme
• York University