Banding Together: How the World Bank, the Humanitarian Community, and the Private Sector are Linking Up Strategies to Support Refugees and Promote Community Resilience
A conversation with:
Dr. Matthew T. McGuire
US Executive Director
World Bank Group
Ms. Manal Omar
Associate Vice President, Center for Middle East and Africa
United States Institute of Peace
Mr. Christopher Schroeder
Entrepreneur and Author
Introduced by:
Amb. Frederic C. Hof
Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Atlantic Council
Moderated by:
Dr. Jessica Ashooh
Deputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force
Atlantic Council
Dr. Matthew T. McGuire will discuss innovative financing mechanisms in fragile and conflict affected states. One of the issue areas that he will be presenting following the Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis on the margins of the UN General Assembly is the humanitarian-development nexus and the role of the international development community in improving the welfare of the refugee population. McGuire will be joined by Mr. Christopher Schroeder and Ms. Manal Omar, who respectively convened working groups on economic recovery and revitalization (Schroeder) and rebuilding societies (Omar) for the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Strategy Task Force (MEST). MEST is co-chaired by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.