,1,As the United States faces into a number of consequential elections including the Presidential Election in 2024, along with elections to Congress as well as several gubernatorial elections, the shape of the political landscape in the United States both during the election campaigns and after the political dust has settled will be highly significant for the future of the country’s democracy. In her address to the IIEA, Vanessa Williamson, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, assesses the possible consequences of the 2024 elections for the resilience of the institutions which underpin the US’ democracy.
About the Speaker:
Vanessa Williamson is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, and a Senior Fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. She studies taxation, redistribution, democracy, and political participation. She is the author, with Theda Skocpol, of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.
Recorded on the 19th of April 2024
,1,About the Speech:
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 ushers in the next phase of the global development agenda. The broad scope of the new agenda for sustainable development gives cause for optimism, but also presents challenges for the signatories in terms of implementation. These challenges are compounded by mounting, long-term crises in the Mediterranean region and beyond - crises which, in many cases, demand immediate humanitarian response.
In this context, Dr. David Nabarro, the newly appointed special adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provided his perspective on implementing the SDGs.
About the speaker:
Dr. David Nabarro was appointed to the role of Special Adviser on the 2030 Development Agenda on 3 December 2015. In his previous role, Dr. Nabarro served as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Ebola, providing strategic and policy direction for the international response to the crisis.
