2016 Global Development Forum: Fostering an Enabling Environment for Economic Growth - Opening Plenary Panel

Panelists will discuss promoting an environment that enables greater participation in the formal economy as well as access to bank and capital markets financing. This panel will look at one of the central questions that governments, donors and other stakeholders consider: how do we create a successful enabling environment for private enterprise?

Featuring:
Henrietta Fore
Former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

José Juan Ruiz Gómez
Chief Economist and Manager of the Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank

Stephen W. Green
President, Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production Company, Chevron Corporation

Marisa Lago
Assistant Secretary, International Markets and Development, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Thomas J. Pritzker
Chairman, Board of Trustees, CSIS

Moderated by:
Daniel F. Runde
William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis and Director, Project on U.S. Leadership in Development, CSIS

The GDF is an annual component of CSIS's ongoing "Chevron Forum on Development" series, which seeks to highlight innovative approaches and the role of the private sector in global development.