Transforming Policy, Changing Lives
The 5th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico on the 13-15 October 2015.
The Forum will bring together hundreds of experts from government, international organisations, official statistics, civil society, business and academia to move forward the international agenda on well-being and sustainability, with confirmed speakers including the OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría; INEGI’s President Eduardo Sojo; Professors Joseph E. Stiglitz, Richard Layard and Ravi Kanbur; Alicia Bárcena (Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)); Fabrizio Barca (Ministry for Economy and Finance, former Minister for Territorial Cohesion, Italy); Rebeca Grynspan (Secretary-General of The Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB)); Aïcha bah Diallo (Chairman of the Forum for African Women Educationalists); and Gus O’Donnell (Chair of Frontier Economics). As 2015 marks the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals and the launch of a new process to make sustainable development a reality worldwide, now more than ever the time is right to explore ways to enact change in policy and people’s behaviour to promote the well-being of individuals and the progress of societies beyond GDP. In addition to presenting concrete examples of policies, frameworks, institutions and measures that promote well-being around the world today, the 5th Forum will allow for the discussion of broader implementation issues across a number of topics of relevance to well-being policy and the SDG agenda.