Fireside chat featuring Ajay Banga: Increased prosperity on a livable planet
Ajay Banga, president of The World Bank Group, will join Condoleezza Rice, Director of the Hoover Institution and 66th US Secretary of State, Arun Majumdar, Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and Peter Blair Henry, Class of 1984 Senior Fellow at Hoover, for a conversation about the importance of the World Bank leading "informed risk taking" to catalyze public and private finance to fund investment in development and to accelerate the energy transition.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT
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“Mother Earth is begging us to restore the atmosphere, the oceans, and our biodiversity. For our own sake. For the sake of our children and grandchildren.”
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Join us for a livestream of a Big Ideas in Sustainability event featuring Ajay Banga, president of The World Bank Group, beginning at 3:30 p.m. PDT on October 1, 2024.
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