Oxford Forum for International Development

 

Saturday, 19 February

Said Business School, Oxford    
09.15  

10.00

10.10    
Registration 

Welcome & Opening of the Conference 

Panel: “Decades of Development: What have we learned?”
Amy Pollard, Lead Analyst for Aid Effectiveness, CAFOD
Michael Green, journalist, author of “Philanthrocapitalism”
David F. Murphy, independent development consultant
Raufu Mustapha, Lecturer at Oxford Department of International Development  

11.15    

Workshop Slot 1: Approaching Development  

Capabilities Approach

Diego Zavaleta, Researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Blind Spots:
 Limitations of MDGs
Naila Kabeer, Institute for Development Studies and Paul Dornan, Senior Policy Officer at Young Lives Project, Oxford    
New Actors in 
Development
Michael Green, author of “Philanthrocapitalism”
David F. Murphy,
consultant for multi-stakeholder partnerships   

12.15



13.00

Keynote: “Development and the Commonwealth”
Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth  

Lunch

14.15

Workshop Slot 2: Governments in Development    

Aid in the 21st Century
 

Janet Gruber, 

Independent Social Development Consultant 
Developing
Good Governance  
Lesley-Anne Long, Board Member, Africa Justice Foundation and Hadeel Ibrahim, Director of Strategy and External Relations, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Sidelining governments and saving lives?

Linda Doull, Director of 
Health and Policy, Merlin 

15.15


16.00

Keynote “Global Imbalances in the Generation of Knowledge”
Georges Haddad, Director of Division for Higher Education, UNESCO    

Break   

16.30

Workshop Slot 3: Local to Global: Power in Development

Peace Building

Carolyn Hayman, CEO of Peace Direct and Alpaslan Özerdem, Chair in Peace Building, Coventry University 
IFIs and Local Agency

Mallika Shakya, former World Bank trade specialist and Deborah Doane, Director of the World 
Development Movement
Participatory Development

Nici Nelson, Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, London    
Delivering Infrastructure through "Slum Networking"
Priti Parikh, Research Associate at Imperial College Business School and Director of Development 2o2o

17.30




18.30

Panel: “Justice vs. Charity – our responsibility in development?”
Toby Ord, Founder of Giving What We Can
Yasmin Hussein, Director for External Relations, Islamic Relief
Deborah Doane, Director of the World Development Movement    

Close of the Day