Multilateral Development Finance Week 2026

3:30PM (CET) | Organised by the University of Glasgow

Given recent declines in official development assistance, MDBs will drive most future development resources. However, the current MDB landscape is caught in a critical tension: geopolitical shifts are threatening traditional funding and changing shareholder mandates, while financial innovations and collaborative lending structures are hitting historic highs.

In this roundtable, global multilateral development finance experts will share their insights on four themes:

• The geopolitical turn and the multilateral funding crisis
• Financial engineering, capital adequacy and MDBs as an asset class
• MDB priorities for a fractured world
• Partnerships to weather the storm