SELECTED conferences and presentations
Dec.2024: Keynote speaker UN Committee for Development Policy on "New contexts and pathways for development: the shrinking space for social priorities". New York.
Dec.2024: Presentation at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) on Reversing Pension Privatizations and Rebuilding Public Pension Systems, Tokyo.
Oct.2024: Keynote Speaker at the United Nations' Joint Meeting of the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council "Fostering resilience and growth in an uncertain world" UN, New York.
Oct.2024: G20 Social Protection Workshop, organized by the Government of South Africa and SPI, Pretoria.
Jun.2024: Justicia Social y Arquitectura Financiera Internacional, IV Seminario Regional de Desarrollo Social "Protección social y desigualdad: América Latina y el Caribe hacia la Segunda Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Social de 2025" CEPAL, Santiago de Chile.
May 2024: Speaker at the Debt and Climate Finance Conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Feb.2024. Speaker at the World People's Economic Forum 2024, Kathmandu.
Feb.2024: Presentation at the World Social Forum: Towards Universal Social Protection: The Campaigns for the
Right to Social Security and for Social Protection Floors, WSF Kathmandu.
Feb.2024: Organizer and speaker at the event End Austerity: There are Alternatives. World Social Forum, Kathmandu.
Nov.2023. Speaker at the Social Security Symposium, Social Policy Initiative, Johannesburg
Oct.2023. Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings "Advancing Social Security in Times of Debt and Austerity: Building a New Eco-Social Contract", Marrakech.
Oct.2023. Speaker at the Reclaim Our Future Conference, Marrakech.
Oct.2023. Keynote speaker at the launch of the Campaign for the Right to Social Security.
Sep.2023. Speaker at the Conference on Feminist Perspectives on Macroeconomics, DAWN, Bangkok.
Aug.2023. Keynote speaker, Training on Social Protection Financing, Senegal, ITUC Africa..
Jul.2023. Speaker at the Asia-Europe People's Forum Ending Austerity: Alternatives to Finance Jobs and Universal Social Protection.
Jun.2023. Keynote speaker, Conference on Economic Policies for Social Justice, FES/AWC, Tunisia.
Apr.2023. Speaker at "How governments can respond to the cost of living crisis". AFL-CIO, Washington DC.
Jan.2023. Speaker at International Conference Financing Universal Social Protection. ITUC, Brussels.
Jan.2023. Speaker at Global Social Policy Symposium, Zagreb Insitute of Economics.
Dec.2022. ANND Study Week on Macroeconomic, Trade, Investment and Development Issues 2022.
Oct.2022. Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings "Avoiding Austerity in a Time of Compounding Crises". Washington DC.
Sep.2022. Launch of the End Austerity Campaign and End Austerity Activism Festival.
Sep.2022. Opening the Global People's Assembly 2022. Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
Sep.2022. Keynote at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Middle East and North Africa Regional Summer School on Social Justice. Tunis.
Aug.2022. Tras la Pandemia la Guerra. Conferencia Regional de LATINDADD y la Red Justicia Fiscal. Lima.
Jul.2022. Speaker at the UN High Level Political Forum HLPF side event on the Interlinked Global Crisis. UNDEF and ANND, New York and Beirut.
Jun.2022. Keynote presentation at Shifting Narratives Conference: The Political Economy of Public Spending, Services and Production. UCL, PSIRU Greenwich University. London.
Jun.2022. Speaker at EURODAD Conference Reboot the System: Defining joint strategies for economic justice. Brussels.
Apr.2022.Panellist at the UN SDG16 Conference People-centred governance in a post-pandemic world, Rome.
Mar.2022: "Post-Neoliberal Welfare Economics" IPD and SciencesPo, Paris.
Mar.2022. Keynote address to the FES conference "No Progress on the Social Front: Struggles over Social Justice in the Middle East and North Africa", Tunisia.
Nov.2021: Human Rights Council Panel on the Right to Social Security. United Nations.
Oct.2021: Panelist at the African Trade Union Forum on Financing Social Protection. ITUC
Jul.2021: Speaker at the Global Education Summit event on Domestic Financing: Pushing Back on Debt & Austerity.
Jul.2021: Speaker at the UN High Level Political Forum session "Building resilience against future shocks through structural changes and investment in sustainable infrastructure“ United Nations
Jul.2021: Speaker at the UN High Level Political Forum side event "Building Back Fairer: Equality in a Post Covid World" United Nations
May.2021: Speaker, Reforming the IMF and lessons learned from COVID-19 Boston University Global Development Policy Center.
May.2021: Speaker at Asia Europe People's Forum session on Income Security Options and choices.
May.2021: Speaker at the Fiscal Justice and Human Rights Week on Deuda, Austeridad y Derechos Humanos en America Latina.
April.2021: Speaker at “Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class,” AFL-CIO/Kalmanovich Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University.
Jan.2021: Speaker at the World Social Forum 2021.
Oct.2020: Speaker at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings side event "Fiscal Space for Universal Health and Social Protection after the COVID19 Pandemic: How to Prevent Austerity"
Jun.2020: Speaker at UNFPA’s global conversation on Money in Our Pockets: COVID19 Socioeconomic Consequences with the Executive Director of UNFPA.
Mar.2020: Revirtiendo la Privatizacion de Pensiones: Reconstruyendo Sistemas Publicos de Pensiones, CISS Mexico.
Oct.2019: Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings "IMF Conditionality Reform in Promise and Practice: What does the evidence show?" Washington DC.
Feb.2019: Organizer and presenter at the High Level event "Together to achieve Universal Social Protection by 2030" (ILO, World Bank, others), and the International Conference on Universal Child Grants (UNICEF, ILO, ODI), Geneva.
Jul.2018: Presenter at the BRICS Labour and Employment Ministerial, Durban, South Africa.
Apr.2018: Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings - Assessing Austerity and its Alternatives 10 years after the global financial crisis, Washington DC
Dec.17-Jan.2018: Launch of the World Social Protection Report 2017-19 in in Abuja, Brussels, Cairo, Dakar, Geneva, Hanoi, Johannesburg, Mexico, New York and Yaoundé.
Nov.2017. Speaker and organizer, panel on Social Protection at the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, Buenos Aires.
Oct.2017. Keynote speech at the ISSA Africa Social Security Summit, Addis Ababa.
Jul. 2017. Speaker at the UN High Level Political Forum event on the Global Partnership on Universal Social Protection, UN New York.
Jul. 2017. Speaker at Debt20 meets G20, Hamburg.
May 2017. Speaker at the ILO UNOSSC South-South Cooperation for Decent Work in Africa, Casablanca.
Apr.2017. G20 Employment Working Group, Gva.
Apr.2017. Speaker at the African Union Technical Committee on Social Development, Labour and Employment, Algiers.
Dec.2016. Speaker at the Expert Meeting UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, Vienna.
Nov.2016. Speaker and organizer UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development Social Protection Floors, New York.
Nov.2017. Speaker at the World Social Security Forum, Panama.
Sep.2016. Speaker and organizer, South-South High Level event to achieve the SDGs on Social Protection, Beijing.
Sep. 2016. Speaker and organizer: launch of the Global Partnership on Universal Social Protection to achieve the SDGs at the UN General Assembly, New York.
Jun.2016. African Union Protocol on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security and Social Agenda 2063, Gaborone.
Apr.2016: Presentation at the G20 Employment Working Group meeting in Shanghai.
Apr.2016: Speaker at the UN Financing for Development Conference Follow-up in New York.
Nov.2015: Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Ageing, participant in Abu Dhabi.
Oct.2015: Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings, Social protection, inequality and growth in times of fiscal consolidation, Lima.
Jun.2015: Presentation on “Ageing and the Silver Economy” at G20 Employment Working Group meeting in Rome.
May.1015: Keynote Speech, Governmental Committee on the European Social Charter and the European Code of Social Security, Strasbourg.
Nov.2014: Presentation on Inequality: Bringing redistribution back In the development agenda. Oxford: Oxfam.
Nov.2014: Keynote speaker at High Level Conference on National Ecpnomic and Social Councils and Dialogue on Social Protection, Seoul: AICESIS-ILO.
Nov.2014: Keynote speaker at ISSA International Research Conference, Jerusalem: ISSA.
Nov.2014: Speaker on .Tackling Inequality for Inclusive Development and Structural Transformation Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Oct.2014: Speaker at Policy Seminar on Rising Income Inequality: Trends, measurements and policies to reverse it. Geneva: ILO, UNCTAD, and UNU-WIDER.
May.2014: Social Protection: An Indispensable Tool for a New Social Contract. Rethinking Social Protection in the Arab Region. ILO: Amman.
Apr.2014: Rights in Crisis: Older Persons’ Social and Economic Rights during the Global Recession. Speaker at the Human Rights Social Forum. Geneva: United Nations.
Mar.2014: Women’s Access to Decent Work and Social Protection during the Global Recession. Main speaker at UN Commission on the Status of Women, United Nations: New York.
Dec.2013: Changing the World: Policies to Reduce Income Inequality, with a focus on Social Protection. Conference on the Challenge of Inequality: Time for Change. Geneva: ILO.
Nov.2013: Keynote speaker at the World Social Security Forum. Doha: Qatar.
Jun.2013: EURODAD Conference on Debt, Finance and Economic Crisis. Prague: EURODAD-Glopolis.
May.2013: Advancing Social Protection Floors. New York: ILO and UNITAR.
Apr.2013: The Age of Austerity. Washington DC: IMF-World Bank Policy Forum Spring Meetings.
Apr.2013: Keynote speaker "The Inequality Gap: A Social Protection Floor for an Inclusive Crisis Recovery”, Canada: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Jan.2013: Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Why Gender Matters. New York: UNWOMEN.
Dec.2012: Member of the G20 Civil Task Force on Inequality, Moscow.
Oct.2012: United Nations Human Rights Council Social Forum, Geneva.
Jun.2012: Keynote speaker at the launch of UNICEF Social Protection Framework in New York and at the European Parliament, Brussels.
Jan.2012: United Nations Commission on Social Development Civil Society Forum The Social Protection Floor Initiative–Bridging the Gap to Poverty Eradication, New York.
Sep.2011: High-Level Conference From Rising Inequalities to Shared Societies: The need to create a sustainable International Monetary and Financial System, held at the IMF-WB Annual Meetings, Washington DC.
Apr.2011: High-Level Conference Democratic Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System: The objective of Equitable Development and Shared Societies, held at the IMF-WB Spring Meetings, Washington DC.
Feb.2011: High Level Panel on Poverty Eradication, United Nations Commission for Social Development, New York.
Oct.2010: Presentation on “A Recovery for All”, side event at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meeting Post MDG Summit: How to Achieve a Socially Responsible Recovery? Washington DC.
Oct.2010: Keynote Speech at United Nations ESCAP Conference on Social Protection as a Development Policy, Bangkok.
Apr.2010: Regional Conference on Enhancing Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila. Philippines.
Nov.2009: UNICEF-ODI Conference on The global economic crisis: Including children in the policy response, London.
Nov.2009: Presentation on “A Recovery with a Human Face” at the Commission of the European Union, Brussels
Feb.2009: United Nations Commission for Social Development, side event on A New Deal for people in a global crisis, New York.
Feb.2009: Resource Speaker on Addressing the Social Impacts of the Financial Crisis, with Nobel Laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Edmund Phelps, and other development specialists in Covering Finance, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, New York
Nov.2008: Doha Financing for Development International Conference, side event on A New Deal for people in a global crisis, Doha, Qatar.
Oct.2008: Presentation on The Bank of the South at the International Conference Beyond Bretton Woods, Mexico.
Jul.2008: 33rd Global Conference of the International Council of Social Welfare (ICSW) on The Dynamics of Social Welfare in Globalization, Tours France.
Jun.2008: Organizer of the Technical Workshop on the Bank of the South, Quito, Ecuador.
Jul. 2008: Keynote Speaker at II Regional Meeting on the Social Dimensions of Integration, Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Caracas, Venezuela.
Feb.2008: United Nations Commission for Social Development, speaker on "A Social Floor for the Global Economy" (UNDESA, ILO, UNICEF, HelpAge) and “Poverty and Social Analysis “ (UNDESA World Bank, and Oxfam), New York
May.2007: High Level Symposium on the Social Policy Dimension of Regional Integration, presentation on Regional Social Polices, United Nations University UNU CRIS, Bruges, Belgium
Feb.2007: United Nations Commission for Social Development, speaker on “Regional Social Policy” and “National Development Strategies”, New York.
Oct.2006: Building Equitable National Development Strategies at SIDA and Finnish Aid Conferences on Social Policy in Stockholm (Sweden) and Kellokoski (Finland).
Oct.2006: Resource Speaker on Poverty Reduction and Development Aid, with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and other development specialists, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia university, New York.
Dec.2024: Presentation at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) on Reversing Pension Privatizations and Rebuilding Public Pension Systems, Tokyo.
Oct.2024: Keynote Speaker at the United Nations' Joint Meeting of the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council "Fostering resilience and growth in an uncertain world" UN, New York.
Oct.2024: G20 Social Protection Workshop, organized by the Government of South Africa and SPI, Pretoria.
Jun.2024: Justicia Social y Arquitectura Financiera Internacional, IV Seminario Regional de Desarrollo Social "Protección social y desigualdad: América Latina y el Caribe hacia la Segunda Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Social de 2025" CEPAL, Santiago de Chile.
May 2024: Speaker at the Debt and Climate Finance Conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Feb.2024. Speaker at the World People's Economic Forum 2024, Kathmandu.
Feb.2024: Presentation at the World Social Forum: Towards Universal Social Protection: The Campaigns for the
Right to Social Security and for Social Protection Floors, WSF Kathmandu.
Feb.2024: Organizer and speaker at the event End Austerity: There are Alternatives. World Social Forum, Kathmandu.
Nov.2023. Speaker at the Social Security Symposium, Social Policy Initiative, Johannesburg
Oct.2023. Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings "Advancing Social Security in Times of Debt and Austerity: Building a New Eco-Social Contract", Marrakech.
Oct.2023. Speaker at the Reclaim Our Future Conference, Marrakech.
Oct.2023. Keynote speaker at the launch of the Campaign for the Right to Social Security.
Sep.2023. Speaker at the Conference on Feminist Perspectives on Macroeconomics, DAWN, Bangkok.
Aug.2023. Keynote speaker, Training on Social Protection Financing, Senegal, ITUC Africa..
Jul.2023. Speaker at the Asia-Europe People's Forum Ending Austerity: Alternatives to Finance Jobs and Universal Social Protection.
Jun.2023. Keynote speaker, Conference on Economic Policies for Social Justice, FES/AWC, Tunisia.
Apr.2023. Speaker at "How governments can respond to the cost of living crisis". AFL-CIO, Washington DC.
Jan.2023. Speaker at International Conference Financing Universal Social Protection. ITUC, Brussels.
Jan.2023. Speaker at Global Social Policy Symposium, Zagreb Insitute of Economics.
Dec.2022. ANND Study Week on Macroeconomic, Trade, Investment and Development Issues 2022.
Oct.2022. Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings "Avoiding Austerity in a Time of Compounding Crises". Washington DC.
Sep.2022. Launch of the End Austerity Campaign and End Austerity Activism Festival.
Sep.2022. Opening the Global People's Assembly 2022. Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
Sep.2022. Keynote at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Middle East and North Africa Regional Summer School on Social Justice. Tunis.
Aug.2022. Tras la Pandemia la Guerra. Conferencia Regional de LATINDADD y la Red Justicia Fiscal. Lima.
Jul.2022. Speaker at the UN High Level Political Forum HLPF side event on the Interlinked Global Crisis. UNDEF and ANND, New York and Beirut.
Jun.2022. Keynote presentation at Shifting Narratives Conference: The Political Economy of Public Spending, Services and Production. UCL, PSIRU Greenwich University. London.
Jun.2022. Speaker at EURODAD Conference Reboot the System: Defining joint strategies for economic justice. Brussels.
Apr.2022.Panellist at the UN SDG16 Conference People-centred governance in a post-pandemic world, Rome.
Mar.2022: "Post-Neoliberal Welfare Economics" IPD and SciencesPo, Paris.
Mar.2022. Keynote address to the FES conference "No Progress on the Social Front: Struggles over Social Justice in the Middle East and North Africa", Tunisia.
Nov.2021: Human Rights Council Panel on the Right to Social Security. United Nations.
Oct.2021: Panelist at the African Trade Union Forum on Financing Social Protection. ITUC
Jul.2021: Speaker at the Global Education Summit event on Domestic Financing: Pushing Back on Debt & Austerity.
Jul.2021: Speaker at the UN High Level Political Forum session "Building resilience against future shocks through structural changes and investment in sustainable infrastructure“ United Nations
Jul.2021: Speaker at the UN High Level Political Forum side event "Building Back Fairer: Equality in a Post Covid World" United Nations
May.2021: Speaker, Reforming the IMF and lessons learned from COVID-19 Boston University Global Development Policy Center.
May.2021: Speaker at Asia Europe People's Forum session on Income Security Options and choices.
May.2021: Speaker at the Fiscal Justice and Human Rights Week on Deuda, Austeridad y Derechos Humanos en America Latina.
April.2021: Speaker at “Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class,” AFL-CIO/Kalmanovich Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University.
Jan.2021: Speaker at the World Social Forum 2021.
Oct.2020: Speaker at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings side event "Fiscal Space for Universal Health and Social Protection after the COVID19 Pandemic: How to Prevent Austerity"
Jun.2020: Speaker at UNFPA’s global conversation on Money in Our Pockets: COVID19 Socioeconomic Consequences with the Executive Director of UNFPA.
Mar.2020: Revirtiendo la Privatizacion de Pensiones: Reconstruyendo Sistemas Publicos de Pensiones, CISS Mexico.
Oct.2019: Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings "IMF Conditionality Reform in Promise and Practice: What does the evidence show?" Washington DC.
Feb.2019: Organizer and presenter at the High Level event "Together to achieve Universal Social Protection by 2030" (ILO, World Bank, others), and the International Conference on Universal Child Grants (UNICEF, ILO, ODI), Geneva.
Jul.2018: Presenter at the BRICS Labour and Employment Ministerial, Durban, South Africa.
Apr.2018: Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings - Assessing Austerity and its Alternatives 10 years after the global financial crisis, Washington DC
Dec.17-Jan.2018: Launch of the World Social Protection Report 2017-19 in in Abuja, Brussels, Cairo, Dakar, Geneva, Hanoi, Johannesburg, Mexico, New York and Yaoundé.
Nov.2017. Speaker and organizer, panel on Social Protection at the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, Buenos Aires.
Oct.2017. Keynote speech at the ISSA Africa Social Security Summit, Addis Ababa.
Jul. 2017. Speaker at the UN High Level Political Forum event on the Global Partnership on Universal Social Protection, UN New York.
Jul. 2017. Speaker at Debt20 meets G20, Hamburg.
May 2017. Speaker at the ILO UNOSSC South-South Cooperation for Decent Work in Africa, Casablanca.
Apr.2017. G20 Employment Working Group, Gva.
Apr.2017. Speaker at the African Union Technical Committee on Social Development, Labour and Employment, Algiers.
Dec.2016. Speaker at the Expert Meeting UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, Vienna.
Nov.2016. Speaker and organizer UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development Social Protection Floors, New York.
Nov.2017. Speaker at the World Social Security Forum, Panama.
Sep.2016. Speaker and organizer, South-South High Level event to achieve the SDGs on Social Protection, Beijing.
Sep. 2016. Speaker and organizer: launch of the Global Partnership on Universal Social Protection to achieve the SDGs at the UN General Assembly, New York.
Jun.2016. African Union Protocol on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security and Social Agenda 2063, Gaborone.
Apr.2016: Presentation at the G20 Employment Working Group meeting in Shanghai.
Apr.2016: Speaker at the UN Financing for Development Conference Follow-up in New York.
Nov.2015: Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Ageing, participant in Abu Dhabi.
Oct.2015: Speaker at side event of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings, Social protection, inequality and growth in times of fiscal consolidation, Lima.
Jun.2015: Presentation on “Ageing and the Silver Economy” at G20 Employment Working Group meeting in Rome.
May.1015: Keynote Speech, Governmental Committee on the European Social Charter and the European Code of Social Security, Strasbourg.
Nov.2014: Presentation on Inequality: Bringing redistribution back In the development agenda. Oxford: Oxfam.
Nov.2014: Keynote speaker at High Level Conference on National Ecpnomic and Social Councils and Dialogue on Social Protection, Seoul: AICESIS-ILO.
Nov.2014: Keynote speaker at ISSA International Research Conference, Jerusalem: ISSA.
Nov.2014: Speaker on .Tackling Inequality for Inclusive Development and Structural Transformation Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Oct.2014: Speaker at Policy Seminar on Rising Income Inequality: Trends, measurements and policies to reverse it. Geneva: ILO, UNCTAD, and UNU-WIDER.
May.2014: Social Protection: An Indispensable Tool for a New Social Contract. Rethinking Social Protection in the Arab Region. ILO: Amman.
Apr.2014: Rights in Crisis: Older Persons’ Social and Economic Rights during the Global Recession. Speaker at the Human Rights Social Forum. Geneva: United Nations.
Mar.2014: Women’s Access to Decent Work and Social Protection during the Global Recession. Main speaker at UN Commission on the Status of Women, United Nations: New York.
Dec.2013: Changing the World: Policies to Reduce Income Inequality, with a focus on Social Protection. Conference on the Challenge of Inequality: Time for Change. Geneva: ILO.
Nov.2013: Keynote speaker at the World Social Security Forum. Doha: Qatar.
Jun.2013: EURODAD Conference on Debt, Finance and Economic Crisis. Prague: EURODAD-Glopolis.
May.2013: Advancing Social Protection Floors. New York: ILO and UNITAR.
Apr.2013: The Age of Austerity. Washington DC: IMF-World Bank Policy Forum Spring Meetings.
Apr.2013: Keynote speaker "The Inequality Gap: A Social Protection Floor for an Inclusive Crisis Recovery”, Canada: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Jan.2013: Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Why Gender Matters. New York: UNWOMEN.
Dec.2012: Member of the G20 Civil Task Force on Inequality, Moscow.
Oct.2012: United Nations Human Rights Council Social Forum, Geneva.
Jun.2012: Keynote speaker at the launch of UNICEF Social Protection Framework in New York and at the European Parliament, Brussels.
Jan.2012: United Nations Commission on Social Development Civil Society Forum The Social Protection Floor Initiative–Bridging the Gap to Poverty Eradication, New York.
Sep.2011: High-Level Conference From Rising Inequalities to Shared Societies: The need to create a sustainable International Monetary and Financial System, held at the IMF-WB Annual Meetings, Washington DC.
Apr.2011: High-Level Conference Democratic Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System: The objective of Equitable Development and Shared Societies, held at the IMF-WB Spring Meetings, Washington DC.
Feb.2011: High Level Panel on Poverty Eradication, United Nations Commission for Social Development, New York.
Oct.2010: Presentation on “A Recovery for All”, side event at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meeting Post MDG Summit: How to Achieve a Socially Responsible Recovery? Washington DC.
Oct.2010: Keynote Speech at United Nations ESCAP Conference on Social Protection as a Development Policy, Bangkok.
Apr.2010: Regional Conference on Enhancing Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila. Philippines.
Nov.2009: UNICEF-ODI Conference on The global economic crisis: Including children in the policy response, London.
Nov.2009: Presentation on “A Recovery with a Human Face” at the Commission of the European Union, Brussels
Feb.2009: United Nations Commission for Social Development, side event on A New Deal for people in a global crisis, New York.
Feb.2009: Resource Speaker on Addressing the Social Impacts of the Financial Crisis, with Nobel Laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Edmund Phelps, and other development specialists in Covering Finance, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, New York
Nov.2008: Doha Financing for Development International Conference, side event on A New Deal for people in a global crisis, Doha, Qatar.
Oct.2008: Presentation on The Bank of the South at the International Conference Beyond Bretton Woods, Mexico.
Jul.2008: 33rd Global Conference of the International Council of Social Welfare (ICSW) on The Dynamics of Social Welfare in Globalization, Tours France.
Jun.2008: Organizer of the Technical Workshop on the Bank of the South, Quito, Ecuador.
Jul. 2008: Keynote Speaker at II Regional Meeting on the Social Dimensions of Integration, Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Caracas, Venezuela.
Feb.2008: United Nations Commission for Social Development, speaker on "A Social Floor for the Global Economy" (UNDESA, ILO, UNICEF, HelpAge) and “Poverty and Social Analysis “ (UNDESA World Bank, and Oxfam), New York
May.2007: High Level Symposium on the Social Policy Dimension of Regional Integration, presentation on Regional Social Polices, United Nations University UNU CRIS, Bruges, Belgium
Feb.2007: United Nations Commission for Social Development, speaker on “Regional Social Policy” and “National Development Strategies”, New York.
Oct.2006: Building Equitable National Development Strategies at SIDA and Finnish Aid Conferences on Social Policy in Stockholm (Sweden) and Kellokoski (Finland).
Oct.2006: Resource Speaker on Poverty Reduction and Development Aid, with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and other development specialists, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia university, New York.