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Featured speakers

Featured speakers

Featured speakers

Jean-Claude JUNCKER

President of the European Comission
Neven MIMICA

EU Commissioner, International Cooperation and Development
Marianne THYSSEN

EU Commissioner, Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
Pierre MOSCOVICI

EU Commissioner, Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
Mariya GABRIEL

EU Commissioner, Digital Economy and Society
Antonio TAJANI

President of the European Parliament
Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT

European Parliament Coordinator on children's rights
Queen Mathilde

Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians
Simon COVENEY

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland
Alexander DE CROO

Deputy Prime Minister of the Belgian Federal Government, Minister of Finance in charge of the Fight against Tax Fraud and Minister of Development Cooperation.
Paulette LENERT

Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs and Minister for Consumer Protection

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Macky SALL

President, Republic of Senegal
Lotay TSHERING

Prime Minister, Kingdom of Buthan
Zied LADHARI

Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation, Republic of Tunisia
Marie-Louise COLEIRO PRECA

Former President of the Republic of Malta and Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Patrick Ignatius GOMES

Secretary-General, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
Pierre GUISLAIN

Vice-president, Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization, African Development Bank (AfDB)
Gilbert F. HOUNGBO

President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Grete FAREMO

Under-Secretary General and Executive Director

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Natalia KANEM

Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Tedros Adhanom GHEBREYESUS

Director General, World Health Organisation (WHO)
António VITORINO

Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Susanna MOOREHEAD

Chair, Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Arancha GONZALEZ

Executive Director

International Trade Centre
Tony BLAIR

Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Executive Chairman, Tony Blair Institute of Global Change
Samira BAWUMIA

Founder and CEO of the Samira Empowerment & Humanitarian Projects (SEHP)

Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana
Winnie BYANYIMA

Executive Director

Oxfam International
Mari MALEK

Model and Activist
David MILIBAND

President and CEO

International Rescue Committee (IRC)
NAS

Global Influencer
Kailash SATYARTHI

Nobel Peace Laureate
Justin VAÏSSE

Director General

Paris Peace Forum
Youssou NDOUR

Artist, Author, Composer and Minister-Adviser to the President of Senegal

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The EDD 2019 overarching title is "Addressing inequalities: Building a world which leaves no one behind".

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Programme

The EDD 2019 overarching title is "Addressing inequalities: Building a world which leaves no one behind".

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Programme

Programme

The EDD 2019 overarching title is "Addressing inequalities: Building a world which leaves no one behind".

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Practical information

The EDD Global Village

Young Leaders Programme

"Implementation of the new European Consensus on Development - Addressing inequality in partner countries"

"Implementation of the new European Consensus on Development - Addressing inequality in partner countries"

"Implementation of the new European Consensus on Development - Addressing inequality in partner countries"

Download the Commission Staff Working Document