Previous Symposiums


2025

Investing in Resilience - Keynote: Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Executive Secretary, United Nations Capital Development Fund


2024

From Policy to Practice - Keynote: Kylie Patterson, Chief Opportunity & Inclusion Officer, CHIPS Program Office


2023

Building Resilient Communities - Keynotes: Ellis Carr, CEO of Capital Impact Partners & CDC Small Business Finance, and Gregory Chen, Managing Director of the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative BRAC


2022

Financing Innovations for Equitable Development - Keynotes: Otho Kerr, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Community Impact Investing at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary, United Nations Capital Development Fund


2021

Rebuiliding for an Inclusive Economic - Keynotes: Eric Rosengren, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and John Friedman, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Brown University and a founding co-director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University


2020

Data and Development - Keynotes: Josh Wright, Executive Director of ideas42, and Justin Elicker, Mayor of New Haven


2019

Collaborative and Inclusive Economic Development