International Development Assistance in the Contemporary World

Programme

10–10.45
Welcome session

• Professor Piotr Wachowiak, Ph.D., SGH Rector
• Inaugural Remarks: Szymon Hołownia, Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland

10.45–11.45
Keynote session: “Global Inequalities”

• Chair: Professor Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Ph.D., SGH Vice Rector for Research
• Keynote speaker: Professor Branko Milanovic, City University of New York

11.45–12.45
Session 1: “Human Capital Policy for Development”

• Chair: Tomasz Chmielewski, Ph.D., SGH
• Speaker: Norbert Schady, Ph.D. (Chief Economist, Human Development, World Bank)
• Discussant: Iga Magda, Ph.D. (SGH and IBS/Institute for Structural Research)

12.45–13.15
Coffee break

13.15–14.15
Session 2: “The Financing of Bretton Woods Institutions”

• Chair: Professor Zbigniew Polański, SGH
• Speakers: Katarzyna Zajdel-Kurowska (Director, Asset Management and Advisory Department, World Bank) and Izabela Rutkowska, Ph.D.  (Senior Finance Officer, International Monetary Fund)

14.15–15.15 
Session 3: “World Development Assistance and Poland”

• Chair: Michał Rutkowski, Ph.D. (Director, Human Development, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank)
• Speaker: Katarzyna Zalas-Kamińska, Ph.D. (University of Wrocław)
• Discussants: Paweł Karbownik (Deputy Minister of Finance) and Wojciech Wilk, Ph.D. (CEO, Polish Center for International Aid)

15.15–15.30
Closing Remarks: Ary Naim (Resident Representative in Warsaw, World Bank)

15.30–16.00
Linner (late lunch)