T20 Summit
Together with Hélène JACQUOT-GUIMBAL, CEO of IFSTTAR, Jean-Bernard KOVARIK, Deputy CEO of IFSTTAR, and co-founders of Université Gustave Eiffel (see our Press Release below), Nicolas J.A. BUCHOUD, co-chair of T20 Japan Task Force 4 (TF4) on Infrastructure finance and spillover effects and president of the Grand Paris Alliance, took part to the Tokyo T20 Summit.
They presented two policy-briefs on Infrastructure for the Future and on Resilient Infrastructures discussed the roadmap of T20 and the T20 Task Force on infrastructure (TF4) towards the end of 2019 and in 2020, and finalized the contribution of T20 to the G20 summit and to the final G20 summit declaration (see the T20 Communiqué below)
We are proud that the result of the hard work of T20 TF4 chaired by dean Naoyuki YOSHINO (ADBI), President of T20 Japan, CEO of ADBI and Amar BHATTACHARYA (Brookings Institution), has been included in the G20 Final Declaration
May 26_ T20 summit TF4 Panel.
Filling the Infrastructure Finance Gap – Innovative Tools to Assist Urbanization
Amar BHATTACHARYA, Brookings Institute (Keynote), Shamshad AKHTAR, Former Executive Secretary of UNESCAP, Vladimir YAKUNIN, DOC Research Institute, Nicolas J.A. BUCHOUD, The Grand Paris Alliance, Yasuyuki SAWADA, Asian Development Bank, Joseph EICHENBERGER, Chief Evaluator, EBRD, Naoyuki YOSHINO, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute, T20 Japan President (moderator)
May 27_T20 summit TF4 Panel.
Maximizing the impact of quality infrastructure investments on economic development
Takashi MIYAHARA (Deputy Director-General of the International Bureau, Ministry of Finance of Japan, Keynote), Daniel RUNDE (Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS)), Naoyuki YOSHINO (Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)), Jean-Bernard KOVARIK (Deputy Director General, IFSTTAR), Shamshad AKHTAR (Ex-Under Secretary General, United Nations), Amar BHATTACHARYA (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute, moderator)
May 27_ TF4 Chairs et co-chairs meeting