IGD events provide opportunities for business leaders to learn about and participate in effective solutions to global poverty. Speakers bring expertise and unique personal perspectives to international development topics. IGD events are by invitation only. For more information about events, call 206.373.7151 or email us.

Browse a selection of summaries from previous events below.
 

April 21, 2010: Agriculture Roundtable

May 3, 2010: The Role of Business in Development, co-presented by IGD and Global Economy and Development at Brookings

September 18, 2008: Dean J. Brian Atwood & Ambassador Andrew Natsios, Former USAID Administrators

June 19, 2008: Robert Mosbacher, Jr., President & CEO, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation

April 24, 2008: The Honorable Jim Kolbe, Senior Transatlantic Fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States

March 14, 2008: Ambassador John Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

November 6, 2007: Carleton S. Fiorina, Former Chairman, President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company

October 1, 2007: His Excellency Levy P. Mwanawasa, S.C., President of Zambia

April 5, 2006: Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

May 6, 2005: Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State

March 16, 2005: Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times

February 3, 2005: William Neukom, Chair, Preston Gates & Ellis

June 3, 2004: Dr. C.K. Prahalad, International Economist and Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan Business School

March 5, 2004: James D. Wolfensohn, President, World Bank

November 13, 2003: Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty & Democracy

August 8, 2003: Carla Hills, Former U.S. Trade Representative

March 14, 2003: George Soros, Chairman, Open Society Institute