Thursday, March 12, 2015
Update from the World Bank: Procurement Review, Global Practice Programs and Sector Opportunities
With
Jeff Baker
Senior Advisor, Office of the U.S. Executive Director, World Bank
David Fulton
Head, USA & Canada, International Finance Corporation
Keith Curtis
Advisor & Director of Business Liaison, Office of the U.S. Executive Director, World Bank
Thursday, March 12, 2015
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce
1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1500
Downtown Seattle
$5 For Students | $10 For Members | $15 For Non-Members
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The Trade Development Alliance is excited to host a roundtable discussion about the substantial changes and new opportunities at the World Bank. This meeting should be of interest for organizations in the IT, health and medical, energy, infrastructure, consulting, engineering and education sectors, and will cover several topics:
- The procurement review, the first of its kind in Bank history, promises to modernize the system and replace a least-cost approach with a value-for-money system that should create substantial opportunities for US private sector and NGO organizations that have high-value solutions and leading-edge technologies and experience
- A new cross-cutting Global practice programs at the Bank and the latest on such key programs as the Ebola response, developments in Africa and in Burma, and Energy for All
- Upcoming review of the Safeguards programs which is both of great importance to the Bank work as well as full of challenges. The speakers will also highlight the Bank’s up-coming World Data Report on the Internet which tackles key issues of leap-frog technologies for development as well as the dangers of the digital divide
- Private sector financing from the International Finance Corporation, which provides equity, debt, trade financing, and risk mitigation tools for companies seeking growth in the emerging markets
The discussion will also cover the key basics on how to win World Bank business as well.
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Registration: The cost of this program is $10 for members and $15 for non-members. Space is limited. Questions? Contact Samantha Paxton at (206) 389-7319/[email protected] .
Tags: Africa, Burma, financing, IFC, Myanmar, Procurement review, World Bank