Professor Mustafizur Rahman, Executive Director, CPD participated in the 2014 Global Think Tank Summit on Think Tanks, Public Policy and Governance: National, Regional and Global Perspectives held during 4-6 December 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The event focused on a mix of economic, development, and security issues, with a special emphasis on the Post-2015 Development Goals and their funding, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. It additionally focusd on the role of threats and crises (regional crises, Ebola, among others) in disrupting institutional priorities and eroding political, economic, and social progress.
The Summit partners were the United Nations Office at Geneva, the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the US Mission in Geneva, the Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy (foraus), the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
