The public event was co-hosted by DIE and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, served as both, the 13th Käte Hamburger Lecture and a book was launched for the recently published DIE Studies No. 88, “The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation: Origins, actions and future prospects”, by the author, Talaat Abdel-Malek. Building on the author’s personal experiences and relevant OECD documents, the comprehensive study traces the evolution of the international aid system during the post–Second World War period and analyses the potential of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation to mature into a universally accepted institution.

Key Note Speaker:

• Talaat Abdel-Malek, former Senior Economic Adviser to the Minister of International Co-operation in Egypt and former chair of the OECD/DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness

Discussants:

• Uwe Gehlen, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Head of Division 414
• Sushil Kumar, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), Delhi/India, Senior Fellow and participant of MGG Academy 2015

Chair:

• Dirk Messner, Director, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Co-Director, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research