President of the General Assembly's High-level Meeting "Financing for SDGs--Breaking the Bottlenecks of Investment, from Policy to Impact" 11 June 2018 UN Headqarters - New York Stakeholder Respondents Selected

At the request of the Office of the President of the General Assembly, UN-NGLS facilitated a process to identify 4 stakeholder respondents to speak from the floor during the panel discussions at the President of the General Assembly's High-level Meeting "Financing for SDGs -- Breaking the Bottlenecks of Investment, from Policy to Impact." 

 

UN-NGLS facilitated a Stakeholder Selection Committee to review applications for the speaking roles and create a regionally and gender balanced short-list of candidates for the President of the General Assembly to consider.

The President of the General Assembly has now selected the following 4 speakers through this process:

 

Panel 1: Build fertile soil for business: providing concerted leadership
Sam Teicher

Coral Vita - Bahamas / United States of America

Panel 2: Let the investment grow: filling in the gap of trillions

Artemisa Montes Sylvan

Observatorio Mexicano de la Crisis (Mexican Observatory on Crisis) - Mexico

Panel 3: Remove the hurdles of irrigation: channeling investment to the ground

Elizabeth Moses

AlphaZULU Advocates - United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland / Nigeria

Panel 4: Secure the fruits: maximizing investment impact

Agnes Leina

Indigenous People of Africa Coordinating Committee - IPACC - Kenya

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