FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 22, 2009

Contact: Felisa Neuringer Klubes 202.663.5626
E-mail: fklubes@jhu.edu

Please note that due to a last-minute scheduling conflict, Lawrence Summers will not be able to participate in today’s conference at 5 p.m. He sends his regrets that he will not be able to attend. The rest of the conference will proceed as scheduled. See below for the updated conference agenda.

JHU SAIS and CGD to Host Conference on International Development and the Financial Crisis
Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Serve as Keynote Speaker

The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Center for Global Development (CGD) will hold a two-day conference, “New Ideas in Development After the Financial Crisis,” on Wednesday, April 22 and Thursday, April 23.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, will give the conference’s keynote address on Thursday, April 23 about “Multilateralism and the Role of the IMF in the Financial Crisis” at 1:30 p.m. Experts from international organizations, academia, research institutions and government and will speak throughout the two days in the following sessions:

Wednesday, April 22

1 p.m.          
Opening Remarks by Bernard L. Schwartz, chairman of BLS Investments LLC; Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program; and Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development and a SAIS graduate

1:15 p.m.     
Panel 1: “Causes of the Global Financial Crisis and the Implications for National Development Strategies”

3 p.m.          
Panel 2: “Interpretations and Implications of the Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Perspective”

Thursday, April 23

9:15 a.m.     
Panel 3: “Interpretations and Implications of the Global Financial Crisis: An African, European and Latin American Perspective”

11 a.m.        
Panel 4: “New Approaches to International Cooperation and Institutions After the Crisis”

1:30 p.m.     
Keynote Address by Dominique Strauss-Kahn

2:45 p.m.     
Panel 5: “Going Forward: New Ideas in Development for a New World”

4:15 p.m.     
Closing Remarks by Francis Fukuyama and Nancy Birdsall

For a conference overview and complete agenda, go to: www.sais-jhu.edu/centers/schwartzforum/new_ideas_conference.htm.

The conference, hosted by the Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism at SAIS and the CGD, is free and open to the public. Both days of the conference will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school’s Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Members of the public should use the electronic RSVP system found on the conference Web site listed above. Please note that seating is limited and some sessions have reached capacity. Members of the public who want to be placed on the waiting list for sessions that have reached capacity should email events@cgdev.org. 

Media who want to cover the conference must contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or fklubes@jhu.edu. Ben Edwards, the CGD media contact, can be reached at 202.416.0740 or bedwards@cgdev.org.