The main aim of the high‐level conference is to discuss and reflect upon the EU Global Strategy and related strategy processes against the background of the 2030 Agenda and to identify a concrete course of action, combining perspectives from foreign and security, development, climate, environment, migration and trade policies.

The conference will be split into a non-public event (on invitation only) and a second public event:

Public High-Level Panel - 2 March 2016, 13:00-14:30 h

The EU’s Global Strategy: linking foreign and security policy with sustainable global development

Moderator:

    Imme Scholz, Deputy Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Speaker:

    Stephan Auer, Director of Multilateral Relations and Global Issues EEAS, tbc

    Teresa Ribera, Director IDDRI

    Lotte Leicht, Director Europe HRW

    Karl Falkenberg, Hors Class Senior Adviser for Sustainable Development at EPSC

Source: German Development Institute