Launch of the 2016 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index - Washington DC

Chair: Hope Harrison, Associate Dean for Research Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, The Elliott School, George Washington University 

Welcome: John Hammock, co-founder, OPHI, Secretariat of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network 

Presentation of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2016, Africa Focus

• Sabina Alkire, Director of the Oxford Poverty & Human Development, University of Oxford and the Oliver T. Carr Jr. Professor in International Affairs, the Elliott School, George Washington University 
• Professor James Foster, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, the Elliott School, George Washington University 

Comments 

• Ms Linda Etim, USAID Assistant Administrator for Africa 
• Dr. Joao Pedro Azevedo, Lead Economist and Global Lead on Welfare Measurement and Statistical Capacity
• Dr. Angela Lusigi, strategic advisor for UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa.
• Ambassador William Garvelink, past US Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo