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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Green Swan 2023

Getting Real with Tech and the Transition
Co-Organized by the Bank for International Settlements, the Central Bank of Chile, the Network for Greening the Financial System, and the South African Reserve Bank

May 31, 2023

  • 1:00 – 3:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 7:00 – 9:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 4:30 – 6:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the 2023 Green Swan Conference. This virtual conference is co-organized by the Bank for International Settlements, the Central Bank of Chile, the Network for Greening the Financial System, and the South African Reserve Bank.

The third edition of the Green Swan Conference brings together a wide range of high-calibre policymakers, experts, and practitioners from different sectors to discuss in more detail climate transition and the real economy. This conference will focuses on new technologies and scaling up already feasible solutions, and the macroeconomic implications of the transition.

Day 1 – Session 1: Deploying feasible solutions at speed and scale (May 31, 2023 | 1:00 pm – 3:00pm CEST)

  • James Thurlow, Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM), IFPRI