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Mobilizing Private Investment in International Infrastructure
The Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition (WISC) launched several working groups to explore how America can be a catalyst for greater private investment that supports international development and climate action, but also leads to a free and open environment for individuals and countries alike. This led to a focus on ensuring trusted and secure communications, free and open transportation systems, and open access to critical minerals. The working groups noted that the only way to generate the kind of investment and economic growth required to meet these goals is to mobilize private sector capital on a level never seen before. The event explores paths to doing so.
Introductions
Keynote Speaker
![Headshot of Nisha Biswal](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Biswal_Nisha%20headshot.png)
Hon. Nisha Biswal
Moderators
![Headshot of Michael Kumar](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Michael%20Kumar%20headshot%20350x350.png)
Michael A. Kumar
![Headshot of Marie Lam-Frendo](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Marie_Lam_Frendo_350x350.png)
Marie Lam-Frendo
Chief Strategy Officer, Meridiam
![Eddy Acevedo](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/EddyAcevedo_0.jpg)
Eddy Acevedo
Panelists
![Headshot of Peter Corsell](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Peter%20Corsell%20350x350.png)
Peter Corsell
![Shihoko Goto](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/ShihokoGoto_2024.jpg)
Shihoko Goto
![Headshot of John Greenwood](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/GreenwoodJohn%20350x350.png)
John Greenwood
![Prashanth Parameswaran](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/images/person/parameswaran_profilepicture.jpg)
Prashanth Parameswaran
CEO and Founder, ASEAN Wonk Global, and Senior Columnist, The Diplomat
![Headshot of K. Danae Pauli](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Danae%20Pauli%20350x350.png)
K. Danae Pauli
![Headshot of Kimberly Heimert](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Kimberly%20Heimert%20350x350.png)
Kimberly Heimert
![Headshot of Tara Higgins](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Tara%20Higgins%20headshot%20350x350.png)
Tara Higgins
Laura Hills
Hosted By
Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition
The Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition works to shape conversations and inspire meaningful action to strengthen technology, trade, infrastructure, and energy as part of American economic and global leadership that benefits the nation and the world. Read more
Africa Program
The Africa Program works to address the most critical issues facing Africa and US-Africa relations, build mutually beneficial US-Africa relations, and enhance knowledge and understanding about Africa in the United States. The Program achieves its mission through in-depth research and analyses, public discussion, working groups, and briefings that bring together policymakers, practitioners, and subject matter experts to analyze and offer practical options for tackling key challenges in Africa and in US-Africa relations. Read more
Indo-Pacific Program
The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more
Brazil Institute
The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—works to foster understanding of Brazil’s complex reality and to support more consequential relations between Brazilian and US institutions in all sectors. The Brazil Institute plays this role by producing independent research and programs that bridge the gap between scholarship and policy, and by serving as a crossroads for leading policymakers, scholars and private sector representatives who are committed to addressing Brazil’s challenges and opportunities. Read more
Canada Institute
The mission of the Wilson Center's Canada Institute is to raise the level of knowledge of Canada in the United States, particularly within the Washington, DC policy community. Research projects, initiatives, podcasts, and publications cover contemporary Canada, US-Canadian relations, North American political economy, and Canada's global role as it intersects with US national interests. Read more
Mexico Institute
The Mexico Institute seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship. A binational Advisory Board, chaired by Luis Téllez and Earl Anthony Wayne, oversees the work of the Mexico Institute. Read more
Middle East Program
The Wilson Center’s Middle East Program serves as a crucial resource for the policymaking community and beyond, providing analyses and research that helps inform US foreign policymaking, stimulates public debate, and expands knowledge about issues in the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Read more
Polar Institute
Since its inception in 2017, the Polar Institute has become a premier forum for discussion and policy analysis of Arctic and Antarctic issues, and is known in Washington, DC and elsewhere as the Arctic Public Square. The Institute holistically studies the central policy issues facing these regions—with an emphasis on Arctic governance, climate change, economic development, scientific research, security, and Indigenous communities—and communicates trusted analysis to policymakers and other stakeholders. Read more
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