Delivering the UN Common Agenda: Action to Address Inequality and Exclusion

This event served as a catalyst for advocates working to achieve a more equal and inclusive world, launching the flagship report of the Grand Challenge on Inequality and Exclusion. It higlighted practical and politically viable solutions and actions to systematically address inequality and exclusion within and between countries, and practical steps that governments have instituted towards inclusive recovery from COVID-19. It is cosponsored by the Leaders Network Reinforcing Multilateralism Together and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies hosted at the New York University’s Center for International Cooperation.

The solutions and actions presented drew from a flagship report launched during the event, led by the Pathfinder’s Grand Challenge on Inequality and Exclusion. The coalition represents a powerful cross-regional partnership involving governments of Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Tunisia, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sweden and Uruguay, the UN, the World Bank, the OECD, Oxfam, and CIVICUS, along with numerous other partners and international experts.

Speakers & Moderators

Moderator – Shakuntala Santhiran, Journalist
Moderator – Trisha Shetty,

H.E. Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain
H.E. Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, UNAIDS
Mark Malloch-Brown, President, Open Society Foundations

Faiza Shaheen – Inequality Lead, NYU CIC
Sarah Cliffe – Director, NYU CIC

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Laureate
Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, UN ECA

Gabriela Bucher, Executive Director, Oxfam
Sharan Burrow, Secretary-General, ITUC
Sanjay Pradhan, CEO, Open Government Partnership (OGP)
Rola Dashti, Executive Secretary, UN ESCWA

José Andrés, Spanish Chef and Humanitarian

Forest Whitaker, Actor, SDG Advocate
Lysa John, Secretary-General, CIVICUS
Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Youth Envoy
Sanjay Pradhan, CEO, Open Government Partnership (OGP)

H.E. Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden
H.E. Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, UN ECLAC
Sanda Ojiambo, CEO & Executive Director, UN Global Compact

H.E. Michael Higgins, President of Ireland
H.E. Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister of BangladeshH.E. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand
H.E. Aïssata Tall Sall, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad, Senegal