Vera Songwe

Under-Secretary-General ; Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations

Vera Songwe is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the 9th serving Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Africa’s premier thought leadership institution focused on generating knowledge and applying policy research in support of accelerated economic diversification and structural transformation. Following her appointment, she became the first woman to lead the institution in the organisation’s 60-year history and the highest-ranking United Nations regional official.

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A Global Deal for Our Pandemic Age

Report of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

Lucrezia Reichlin, Guntram B. Wolff, Jean-Claude Trichet, Min ZHU, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Ana Botin, Masood Ahmed, Vera Songwe, Jeremy Farrar, Lawrence H. Summers, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jacob Frenkel, Rebeca Grynspan, Naoko Ishii, Michael Kremer, Kira Mazumdar-Shaw, Luis Alberto Moreno, John-Arne Røttingen, Mark Suzman, Tidjane Thiam, Ngaire Woods and Victor Dzau
health economics and policy global governance Covid-19

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01 September 2021

Bruegel Annual Meetings, 1-3 September 2021

The 2021 Annual Meetings gathered high-level speakers and participants to discuss how to recover from the crises brought on by the Covid pandemic

Masood Ahmed, Carlo Altomonte, José Antonio Álvarez, Nicholas Bloom, Francesca Bria, Per Callesen, Nadia Calviño, Grégory Claeys, Declan Costello, Zsolt Darvas, Maria Demertzis, Alberto De Paoli, Valdis Dombrovskis, Karolina Ekholm, Jeremy Farrar, Henry Foy, Michael Froman, Alicia García-Herrero, Amanda Glassman, Gita Gopinath, Caroline de Gruyter, Pierre Heilbronn, Amadou Hott, Kerstin Jorna, Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Keyu Jin, Tadeusz Kościński, Jean-Bernard Lévy, Mario Mariniello, Sara Matthieu, J. Scott Marcus, Mairead McGuinness, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Niclas Poitiers, Hélène Rey, Aura Salla, Diederik Samsom, André Sapir, Marietje Schaake, Jorge Sicilia Serrano, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Vera Songwe, Lawrence H. Summers, György Szapáry, Simone Tagliapietra, Adam Tooze, Laurence Tubiana, Jutta Urpilainen, Nicolas Véron, Reinhilde Veugelers, Luca Visentini, Guntram B. Wolff, Sabine Weyand and Georg Zachmann

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09 July 2021

A Global Deal for Our Pandemic Age

Report of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

Lucrezia Reichlin, Guntram B. Wolff, Jean-Claude Trichet, Min ZHU, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Ana Botin, Masood Ahmed, Vera Songwe, Jeremy Farrar, Lawrence H. Summers, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jacob Frenkel, Rebeca Grynspan, Naoko Ishii, Michael Kremer, Kira Mazumdar-Shaw, Luis Alberto Moreno, John-Arne Røttingen, Mark Suzman, Tidjane Thiam, Ngaire Woods and Victor Dzau

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