Brookings Blum Roundtable

"The seventh annual Brookings Blum Roundtable, led by Kemal Derviş and co-chaired by Richard C. Blum and Strobe Talbott, convened over 40 exceptional international thought leaders, entrepreneurs and practitioners to explore the relationship between efforts to promote aid effectiveness and the anticipated shape of the global development agenda over the next decade. The roundtable discussions provided an opportunity to look beyond questions of increased resources for anti-poverty services to the effectiveness of different approaches and to systemic issues associated with the delivery of development outcomes. The high-level group of participants explored opportunities for new commitment in engaging the private sector and multilateral actors, as well as the increasingly important role of climate assistance and operations in instable arenas. Over separate meal conversations, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, president of the African Development Bank, and Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), reflected on the current and future roles of their organizations, and how they could each act on the suggestions put forward at the roundtable."

Participant List Special Guests
 * Co-Chairs - Richard C. Blum, Kemal Derviş ]] and Strobe Talbott
 * Honorary Co-Chairs - Walter Isaacson and Mary Robinson
 * Madeleine K. Albright, William Antholis, David W. Barno, Howard L. Berman, Matthew Bishop, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Helen Clark, John Danner, John Davidson, Paula Davis , Eckhard Deutscher, Henrietta Holsman Fore, Michael Froman, Ashraf Ghani, Al Gore , Donald Kaberuka, Thomas Kalil , Homi Kharas, Amara Konneh, Nancy Lindborg, Robert Mosbacher, Jr., Victor Murinde, Jane Nelson, Jacqueline Novogratz, Raymond Offenheiser , Diana Ohlbaum, Kang-ho Park, John Podesta, Shankar Sastry, Rajiv Shah, V. Shankar, Smita Singh, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Gayle Smith, Javier Solana, Erica Stone, Jeffrey Sturchio, Noam Unger, Miguel Veiga-Pestana, Laura Winthrop, Samuel A. Worthington , Daniel Yohannes , Phillip Zelikow
 * Peggy Clark, Maryanne McCormick, Heather Simpson, Jane Wales