This page includes materials and details of speakers from throughout the convening Driving Change: Leveraging Personal Agency Approaches for Development on April 30 - May 1, 2024.
The role of agency in catalyzing sustainable development — remarks & keynote speakers.
Remarks
Corinne Hart – Senior Gender Advisor (Energy, Environment, and Climate), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Remarks
Anita Shankar – Associate Scientist & Executive Director, Self-Empowerment and Equity for Change Initiative (SEE Change), Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Remarks
James Walsh – Behavioral Economics Researcher, The Agency Fund / University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government
Keynote (Day 1)
Naila Kabeer – Professor of Gender and Development, London School of Economics
‘The power within’: personal agency as a force for collective change
Keynote (Day 2)
Kaushik Basu – Professor of International Studies / Former Chief Economist / Former Economic Advisor, Cornell University / The World Bank / Government of India
Lightning talks featuring different perspectives and evidence for the current and potential role of psychological agency in catalyzing development.
Lightning Talk
*Greg Walton – Professor of Psychology, ***Stanford University
