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IIPP Director addresses the UN Chief Executives Board

15 May 2023

Professor Mariana Mazzucato speaks on the reform of international financial architecture at the UN Chief Executives Board meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.

left to right, Antonio Guterres, Mariana Mazzucato, Amina J Mohammed

Invited by United Nations (UN) Secretary General , the Director of 最准的六合彩论坛 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, recently spoke to the (CEB), on reforming international financial architecture.

The CEB is a biannual meeting of all directors of UN agencies, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, and is the longest-standing and highest-level coordinating body in the UN system.听

On 3 May 2023, the President of Kenya, William Ruto, hosted Professor Mazzucato and UN leaders for in the country鈥檚 capital, Nairobi. The following day, along with , Senior Minister in Singapore and fellow Co-Chair of the , Professor Mazzucato gave a keynote presentation entitled 鈥楽ecuring a Fair and Inclusive International Financial Architecture that Delivers Sustainable Development for All.鈥

Professor Mazzucato brought a key message to UN leaders: if UN agencies and governments around the world are serious about tackling the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and filling the , then we cannot only talk about reforming the international financial architecture. We need to rethink the way we do capitalism 鈥 how we structure governments, how we structure business, and how we structure public-private relationships.听

In her recent on the topic, Professor Mazzucato says that 鈥渨e must embrace an entirely new economics" and deliberately shape "the economic and financial system to advance the common good." Our current economic system 鈥渞emains rooted in an ex-post mindset: the state intervenes only to correct market failures. Instead, state actors should be deliberately shaping 鈥 even co-creating 鈥 markets in which the common good is the primary objective.鈥

Mariana Mazzucato with Kristalina Georgieva

Professor Mazzucato also brought these messages to bilateral meetings with key UN leaders, including the UN Deputy Secretary General , IMF Managing Director , UN Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif, and UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator .听

Importantly, this year marks the half-way point of the UN 2030 Agenda and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), culminating in the SDG Summit in September. Furthermore, next year will be the Summit of the Future, which aims to reinforce the UN and global governance structures to help advance the SDGs by 2030. The Secretary General has called it 鈥渁 booster shot for the SDGs.鈥