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The recent report from the UN High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda noted that by 2015, most of the people in the world whose lives are mired in extreme poverty will reside in places troubled by conflict and violence. Permanent Secretary Mark Lowcock will discuss recent trends in the nature of conflict and violence, noting that while war is decreasing and the world is becoming a less violent place, conflict is now the greatest challenge to the development agenda. Mark will argue that whilst the international community has made huge progress in reducing conflict and violence in recent years, conducting development activities in fragile and conflict affected states is highly complex, and he will offer up some solutions and interventions that we should be investing in, in order to make further development gains.
Mark Lowcock is Permanent Secretary for the UK Department for International Development (DFID). He was appointed on 9 June 2011. Mark began his career in DFID (formally the Overseas Development Administration) in 1985 and occupied the following roles: Private Secretary to Baroness Chalker, Minister for Overseas Development from 1992 to 1994. Deputy Head and latterly Head of the DFID Regional Office for Central Africa (based in Harare) from 1994 to 1997. Head of European Union Department from 1997 to 1999, before returning to Africa as Head of the DFID Regional Office for East Africa (based in Nairobi). Director, Finance and Corporate Performance, from 2001 to 2003 and Director General, Corporate Performance and Knowledge Sharing from 2003 to 2006. Director General, Policy and International from 2006 to 2008 and Director General, Country Programmes from 2008 to 2011.
Arntraud Hartmann is adjunct at the Hertie School and has held numerous Senior Management Positions with the World Bank, such as Director for Southeast European countries and Senior Advisor to the Operations and Policy Department. She was the first Chief of Mission for the World Bank in Romania. She also worked as Senior Research Fellow with the UNICEF Innocenti Center and was a Senior Advisor to the World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center, Italy. She works as independent consultant for the IMF, the World Bank, IFAD and the GiZ.
Information on participating / attending:
Please register at events@hertie-school.org
Date:
06/17/2013 18:00 - 06/17/2013 19:30
Event venue:
Hertie School of Governance
Friedrichstraße 180 | 10117 Berlin
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Economics / business administration, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
06/10/2013
Sender/author:
Miriam Hauft
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event43970
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