The Development Leaders Conference

CGD’s annual Development Leaders Conference brings together the top leadership of bilateral development agencies and selected development institutions from around the globe—in a private and independent setting—to share common challenges, solutions, and opportunities in supporting sustainable development.

The 2024 conference, co-hosted with the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), will be held in Indonesia in June.

More from the Series

Blog Post
The Development Leaders Conference 2020: Paving the Way for Better Development Cooperation post-COVID
Anita Käppeli et al.
October 28, 2020
In the build up to the 2020 Development Leaders Conference, the organizers outline the key themes that will be discussed and give an overview of development cooperation in the era of COVID-19.
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Fostering Development Cooperation: A Development Leaders Conference
Mikaela Gavas
December 04, 2019
How can the development community truly harness the power of this cooperation and come together to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? Last month, the Center for Global Development again hosted the Development Leaders Conference, this time in Beijing in partnership with the Asian Infrastructu...
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Building a Foundation for Better Development Cooperation: CGD Development Leaders Conference 2019
Mikaela Gavas
October 01, 2019
The big takeaway from the 2018 CGD Development Leaders conference was that all agencies, new and old, face similar opportunities and challenges—of relevance, responsiveness, communication, capability, and resilience—and there is much to learn from sharing experiences, especially at this ti...
Blog Post
Development Agencies: Fit for the Future?
Mikaela Gavas
November 13, 2018
Official bilateral and multilateral development agencies are under strain from opposing forces: on the one hand, they are confronted with a world in which the development challenges are interconnected and daunting, and the risks are systemic and increasing; on the other, they are grappling with a wo...