Side Events
  • Tuesday 18 Oct 2016

  • Financing the New Urban Agenda: Multi-level Metropolitan Finance for 21st Century Cities

    Side Events
    Venue: R14
    Lead Organization:
    • Brookings Institution.
    Partner Organizations:
    • Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
    • OECD,
    • UCLG.

    Interactive panel discussion; aims to bring a range of research/practitioner/policymaker perspectives on the role of metropolitan finance in implementing aspects of the New Urban Agenda: M. Mohamed Sadiki, Mayor of the City of Rabat, Morocco, Head of UCLG Committee on Local Finance; Luiz de Mello, Deputy Director for Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD; Teresa Ter-Minassian, former director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF; George McCarthy, President, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Ms. Khady Dia Sarr, Director of the City of Dakar Municipal Finance Program (invited);Moderator: Alaina Harkness, Brookings Institution.