Breakout Panel AM: What Will the Future Development Professional Look Like

As the role of the private sector, business models, and stakeholder engagement in development changes, a critical question emerges regarding how the people who compose the future labor force will need to evolve as well. These changes relate to and stem from a wide range of issues, including technology, globalization, international security and stability and numerous other factors. This panel will focus on both existing drivers and potential new ones, and what this will mean for organizational culture and the profile of the future development professional.

Speakers:
Larry Cooley (Moderator), Founder and President Emeritus, MSI; and Chair, the Global Governing Council, SID
Amb. Julieta Valls Noyes, Acting Deputy Director, Foreign Service Institute
Steve Radelet, Director of the Global Human Development Program, Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Kate Warren, Executive Vice President, Devex