A VIRTUAL WORLD-WIDE CONFERENCE – SEPTEMBER 14-17, 2020
The Recovery Summit was an initiative led by Global Progress and Canada 2020, born out of the Recovery Project, a network of think tanks and research institutes designed to start the conversation about post-pandemic recovery. Held in advance of the UN General Assembly in September, the Summit was an opportunity to platform big ideas for a coordinated, progressive global recovery effort.
Our Summit Co-Chairs
Global Public Health: Dr. James Orbinski, Director, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University
Shared Prosperity: The Honourable Anne McLellan, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
Inclusive Societies: Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
Sustainability: Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European CommissionΩ
Democracy and Institutions: Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Prime Minister of Denmark
Day 1
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Our Speakers | Shaping a Progressive Response
Tim Dixon, Co-founder, More in Common
Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress
Gerry Butts, Vice Chairman, Eurasia Group
Matt Browne, Founder, Global Progress and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Our Speakers | Global Public Health
Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization
Dr. Jane Philpott, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University
Dr. Alan Bernstein, President and CEO, CIFAR
Dr. Samantha Nutt, Founder, War Child Canada and War Child USA
Dr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Dr. Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières
Dr. Ilona Kickbusch, Founder and Chair, Global Health Centre
Dr. Steven Hoffman, Lead, UN Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery and Director, Global Strategies Lab
Day 2
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Our Speakers | Shared Prosperity
Nils Gilman, Vice President of Program, Berggruen Institute
Heather Boushey, President, CEO, and Co-founder, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Matthew Mendelsohn, Visiting Professor, Ryerson University
Sasha Krstic, President, Mastercard Canada
Dr. Jim Chalmers, Member for Rankin and Shadow Treasurer (Australia)
Miguel Matos, Socialist MP for Lisbon (Portugal)
Farah Mohamed, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiative, Policy, and Public Affairs, Toronto Region Board of Trade
Our Speakers | Inclusive Societies
The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry
Anna Gainey, former President of the Liberal Party of Canada
Molly Scudder, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Don Iveson, Mayor of Edmonton
Dr. Zubaida Haque, Former Interim Director, Runnymede Trust and Independent SAGE
Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago
Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics
Day 3
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Our Speakers | Sustainability
Martin Moore, Senior Lecturer, Political Communications Education and Director, Centre for the Study of Media, Communications, and Power, King’s College
Alex Laskey, Founder and Executive Chair, Rewiring America
Veronica Scotti, Global Chair, Swiss Re
Megan Leslie, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund Canada
The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Canadian Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest
John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff, Founder and Director, Center for American Progress
Our Speakers | Democracy and Institutions
Ben Scott, Executive Director, Reset
Emily Bell, Founding Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism
Karen Kornbluh, Director, Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Tom Steinberg, Founder and former Director, mySociety
Dawn Nakagawa, Executive Vice President, Berggruen Institute
Mete Coban MBE, Founder and CEO, My Life My Say
Sandro Gozi, Member of European Parliament (France), Renew Europe
Eli Pariser, Co-founder, Avaaz
Day 4
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Our Speakers | The Road to Recovery
Kevin Page, Founding President and CEO, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa
Heather Boushey, President, CEO, and Co-founder, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Alan Yu, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Frank Graves, President and Founder, EKOS Research Associates
Marcus Roberts, Director of International Projects, YouGov
Alex Paterson, Executive Director, Canada 2020
Matt Browne, Founder, Global Progress and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
About The Recovery Summit
The Recovery Summit is hosted by The Recovery Project, a network of think tanks and research institutes designed to start the conversation about post-pandemic recovery. The initiative was founded by Global Progress, Canada 2020 and the Institute of Fiscal Studies & Democracy at the University of Ottawa.
Launched in March 2020, The Recovery Project has engaged a growing community of political, policy, business, philanthropic and academic leaders through livestream conversations, podcast interviews and public thought-leadership about progressive policy responses for recovery.
The Summit — held in advance of the UN General Assembly in September — will be an opportunity to platform big ideas for a coordinated, progressive global recovery effort. The Summit will tackle five core themes in the context of recovery: Shared Prosperity, Democratic Resilience, Sustainability, Global Public Health, and Inclusive Societies.