High-Level Event on Financing Sustainable Energy for All – with Opening Remarks by the UN Secretary-General and World Bank President

  • Date: 13 July 2015, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Location: Hilton Ballroom II

Organised by

  • Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All)
  • Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Summary

This High Level Event on Financing Sustainable Energy for All will include the release of the final report of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Advisory Board’s Committee on Scaling Up Finance for Sustainable Energy Investments. All are welcome to attend on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early.

OPENING REMARKS

H.E. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations

H.E. Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group

SPECIAL REMARKS

H.E. Alemayehu Tegenu, Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Ethiopia

H.E. Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iceland

H.E. Mogens Lykketoft, President-elect, 70th UN General Assembly

PANELLISTS

H.E. Peter Launsky, Director General for Multilateral Development Cooperation, Austria (kick-off remarks)

Mr. Tom Steyer, Founder, Farallon Capital Management

Ms. Beth Tritter,Vice-President for Policy and Evaluation, Millennium Challenge Corp

Dr. Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Mr. Klaus Rudischhauser, Deputy Director-General, European Commission Policy and Thematic Coordination

Mr. Richard MacGeorge, Lead Infrastructure Finance Specialist Financial Solutions, Energy & Extractives, World Bank Group

Mr. Adnan Amin, Director-General, IRENA

Mr. João Carlos Ferraz, Director, Brazilian Development Bank

Mr. Gyan Chandra Acharya, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS

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