As the world confronts rising inequality, mounting climate risks, and a fragmented global financial architecture, the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) offers a vital opportunity to reshape international finance toward equity, resilience, and sustainability.
Club de Madrid, as a leading voice for democratic leadership and multilateral cooperation, will be actively engaged across the week. This includes leading two official side events, co-leading an activity with Oxfam, and participating in multiple panels and roundtables alongside key actors and partners on global finance reform.
High-Level Panel & Reception with Oxfam
📅 1 July 2025 | 19:00–21:00
📍 Only YOU Hotel, Seville
Financing Development in an Era of Extreme Inequality
In partnership with Oxfam, Club de Madrid will lead a high-level dialogue and reception addressing the urgent need to reform development finance in the face of global inequality, sovereign debt crises, and the decline of traditional aid systems.
The session will explore political shifts and multilateral strategies needed to forge a fairer financial system.
Club de Madrid Official Side Events
1️⃣ Financing an Equitable, Fair, Inclusive and Resilient Future
📅 2 July 2025 | 08:30 – 10:00
📍 Side Event Room 17, FIBES Conference Centre
This event places climate and ecological resilience at the heart of global financial reform. The panel will explore how to reframe climate finance as core development finance and promote mechanisms like green bonds, SDR reallocation, and inclusive de-risking strategies.
This session is led by Club de Madrid, CIPÓ Platform, and the Impact Coalition for IFA Reform. Supporters include: the Bridgetown Initiative, CAF, UN-Habitat, IEA, IE University, Alinnea, Climate Emergency Collaboration Group, Climate Bonds Initiative, The Development Guarantee Group, and the Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN). Together, these actors contribute to a shared vision of inclusive and resilient development finance.
Confirmed speakers include:
Carlos Alvarado, Aminata Touré, Michelle Bachelet, Jin Liqun (President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB), Ambroise Fayolle (Vice President of the European Investment Bank, EIB), Alicia Montalvo (Manager of Climate Action and Positive Biodiversity, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, CAF), Anacláudia Rossbach, (Executive Director, UN Habitat), Cecilia Tam (Head of Energy Investment Unit, International Energy Agency, IEA) and others.
🔴 Join us online via livestream:
👉 https://clubmadrid-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tnOCnmqgStKmfhxmj3TQdQ#/registration
2️⃣ Strengthening Principles for Global Cooperation in the Financing for Development (FfD) IV Outcome Document
📅 2 July 2025 | 12:30 – 14:00
📍 Side Event Room 19, FIBES Conference Centre
This session introduces a bold vision for global cooperation through Global Public Investment (GPI) — a new model based on shared contribution, benefit, and decision-making.
Co-led by Club de Madrid, the Global Public Investment Network, and the Impact Coalition for IFA Reform. It is supported by NORAD, AECID, the Government of Chile, OHCHR, UNRISD, ICRICT, and the Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN).
The panel will advocate for embedding GPI principles into the FfD4 Outcome Document and future global financing frameworks.
Confirmed speakers include:
Carlos Alvarado, Aminata Touré, Marcella Favretto (OHCHR), José Antonio Ocampo, Lisetta Trebbi (Interim Director General, NORAD, Government of Norway), Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Antón Leis García (Director of AECID, Government of Spain), Mario Marcel (Minister of Finance, Government of Chile) and others.
🔴 Join us online via livestream:
👉 https://clubmadrid-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/S2POOdNPS12x9Zs7J44_cw#/registration
3 July 2025 | 08:30–09:00 – Press Conference: Launch of the Seville Platform for Action (SPA)
- SPA Initiative Room, FIBES 1 Pavilion 2 (Capacity: 80 persons)
This press-facing announcement marks the official launch of the Seville Platform for Action (SPA) – a bold multistakeholder coalition to institutionalise Global Public Investment (GPI) as a new model of international public finance. Led by the Global Public Investment Network, in partnership with Club de Madrid, the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) and the Government of Colombia, the SPA aims to reimagine development finance around the principles that all contribute, all benefit, all decide.
Speakers include: Harpinder Collacott, Interim Executive Director, Global Public Investment Network; María Elena Agüero, Secretary General, Club de Madrid; Representative from the Government of Colombia; and Gianpiero Leoncini, Executive Vice President, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF).
Additional Engagements Featuring CdM Members
Monday 30 June
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12:30–14:00 | Igarapé Side Event: Bridging Global Agendas: Scaling Up Financing for People and Planet from FfD4 to COP30
📍 Room 8 – FIBES | 🎤 Speaker: President Alvarado
- 14:30–16:00 | FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies) – New Strategic Partnerships for Development
📍 Room 12 – FIBES 2 | 🎤 Speaker: PM Touré
Tuesday 1 July
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14:30–16:00 | GWL (Global Women Leaders) Voices: Financing Women for a Fair Future
📍 Room 5 – FIBES | 🎤 Speaker: PM Touré
These interventions will amplify Club de Madrid’s call for a more democratic, inclusive, and sustainable global financial architecture.
Voices of Leadership: Why We Must Talk About Development Finance Now
As part of Club de Madrid’s participation in FFD4, Members of the organization responded to the question:
Why is it urgent to talk about financing for development today, especially in the light of the decline of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and its impact on the most vulnerable countries?
We invite you to watch this short video featuring reflections from Michelle Bachelet and Moussa Mara
Their insights highlight the moral and strategic imperative to act decisively in reshaping global finance with the needs of the most vulnerable at its core.
Check our Toolkit | Includes the event calendar, suggested social media posts and messaging, and multimedia assets for amplification
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