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"It is an axiom that without peace there will be no development. But it is also an axiom that without development for eight-tenths of the world's population there can be no peace. To fight for our development is therefore to fight for peace and for the well-being of all peoples.”

Fidel Castro 20/4/1987

From 28 April to 1 May 2024, the National Capitol of Cuba will host the 50th Anniversary Congress on the New International Economic Order.


The Congress — co-convened by the Progressive International and the Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba — will bring the world’s leading scholars, diplomats, and policymakers to Havana for three days of intense discussion, deliberation, and preparation of a Program of Action to secure peace through sovereign development in the twenty-first century.

“The current threat to international peace is closely associated with the economic inequalities, polarization and injustice that result from the economic order established in the 20th century, heir to the colonial system that emerged in the 15th century,” says Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío. “Fifty years after the New International Economic Order was approved by the United Nations, the conditions described then — far from being mitigated — have worsened.”

One year ago, delegates from over 25 countries traveled to Havana to inaugurate Cuba’s presidency of the Group of 77.

“Our nations continue to be in the rear-guard of global development, while carrying on their shoulders the consequences of multiple crises and inequalities derived from the unjust current international order,” said President Díaz-Canel in his inaugural address.

Over the course of its deliberations, the Congress yielded a clear strategy to ‘assert Southern power’, set out in the Havana Declaration delivered at the closing ceremony on 28 January.

The Congress recognizes that economic liberation will not be granted, but must be seized... Our vision can only be realized through the formation of new and alternative institutions to share critical technology, tackle sovereign debt, drive development finance, and face future pandemics together,” read the Declaration.

One year later, however, the nature of these “new and alternative institutions” — as well as their path to implementation — remains to be defined. In other words, while the first Congress succeeded in articulating a strategy for Southern power, the second Congress must now identify the tactics to secure it.


That is why we are returning to Havana: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the New International Economic Order; to renovate its vision of sovereign development for the twenty-first century; and to forge the community of scholars, diplomats, and policymakers to win it.

Speakers

Oscar Luis Hung Pentón
President, National Association of Cuban Economists (ANEC)
Cuba

Ernesto Samper Pizano
Former President, Republic of Colombia

Colombia

Mourad Ahmia
Executive Secretary of the Group of 77

Algeria

Adriana Abdenur
Special Advisor to the President of the Republic of Brazil

Brazil

Amb. Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta
Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations
Cuba

Amb. Mathu Joyini
Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations
South Africa

Lumumba Di-Aping
Former Chief Negotiator for the G77
Sudan

Gladys Cecilia Fernández
Head of the International Finance Department, Center for Research on the Global Economy (CIEM)
Cuba

Marco Enriquez-Ominami
Founder, Grupo de Puebla; Fmr Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Chile

Joel Queipo Ruíz
Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
Cuba

Emilio Lozada García
Head of the International Relations, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
Cuba

Dr. José Luis Rodríguez
Former Minister of Economy and Planning
Cuba

Ramón Pichs-Madruga
Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Cuba

Isabel Estevez
Development Economist
Ecuador

Sunny Malhotra
Development Economist
USA

Cristina Reis
Undersecretary for Sustainable Economic Development
Brazil

Jason Hickel
Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology-Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA- UAB)
Eswatini

Zhang Xinning
Associate Dean of the School of Marxism, Fudan University
People’s Republic of China

Lourdes M. Regueiro
Center for International Policy Research (CIPI)
Cuba

Andrés Arauz
Former Ecuadorian Central Bank Governor
Ecuador

Ndongo Samba Sylla
Former Advisor to the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal
Senegal

Daniel Rojas
President, Sociedad de Activos Especiales (SAE)
Colombia

Fadhel Kaboub
President, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity
Tunisia

Guillaume Long
Former Foreign Minister
Ecuador

James K. Galbraith
Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
USA

Gerardo Torres Zelaya
Vice Foreign Minister
Honduras

Isabella Weber
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Germany

Merle Schulken
PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst
USA

Carina Vance
General Secretary of Territorial Coordination and Social Participation of Quito, Former Executive Director of the South American Institute of Government in Health of UNASUR (ISAGS), Former Minister of Public Health
Ecuador

Claudia Marín Suárez
Coordinator, Latin America and the Caribbean, Center for International Policy Research (CIPI)
Cuba

Antonio Romero
Professor of economics at Universidad de La Habana
Cuba

Richard Kozul-Wright
Director, Division on Globalisation and Development Strategies, UNCTAD
UK

Attiya Waris
UN Independent Expert on foreign debt, other international financial obligations and human rights
Kenya

Booker Ngesa Omole
National Vice Chairperson and National Organizing Secretary of The Communist Party of Kenya
Kenya

Colin Besaans
Programme Manager for African Energy Transition, Powershift Africa
South Africa

Elda Molina
Senior Researcher at the International Economics Research Center
Cuba

Matias Capeluto
Coordinator, Grupo de Puebla; Fmr Director, Casa Patria Grande
Argentina

Jason Rosario Braganza
Economist and Executive Director, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODADD)
Kenya

Amir Lebdioui
Associate Professor at the University of Oxford
Algeria

Marcela Morales Hidalgo
Associate at On Think Tanks
Ecuador

Josefina Maharbiz
Founder of FILFEM, Communications Director for Grupo de Puebla, Fmr Director of Gender and Communications, Office of the Chief of Staff
Argentina

Manuel “Butch” Montes
Former Chief of Development Strategy and Policy Analysis in United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Philippines

Mark Weisbrot
Co-Founder & Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
USA

José Miguel Ahumada
Professor of economics, Institute of International Studies, University of Chile, Former Vice Minister of Trade
Chile

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Development economist, Professor of International Affairs at the New School for Social Research, Vice Chair of the UN Committee for Development Policy
Japan

Cecilia Rikap
Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
Argentina

Aude Darnal
Head of the Global South in the World Order project at the Stimson Center
Martinique

Mario Seccareccia
Professor emeritus of economics, University of Ottawa
Canada

Emilia Reyes
Program Director of Policies and Budgets for Equality and Sustainable Development, at Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia
Mexico

Esther Aguilera
Consulting Professor at the International Economics Research Center; Advisor to the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC)
Cuba

Imanol Belausteguigoitia
Director General for Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico

Jeff Sachs
Director of the Columbia Center for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
USA

Giuliano Garavini
Professor of history, Roma Tre University
Italy

Niclas Hallström
President of the Board of Trustees, Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
Sweden

Murad Akincilar
International Delegate, Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM)
Turkey

Andrés Chiriboga-Tejada
Economic sociologist and project coordinator for Debt and South-South Cooperation, Polylat
Ecuador

Christian Pino
Former Executive Secretary, Comisión para la Auditoría Integral Ciudadana de los Tratados de Protección Recíproca de Inversiones y del Sistema de Arbitraje Internacional en Materia de Inversiones (CAITISA)
Ecuador

Johanna Bozuwa
Executive Director, Climate and Community Project
USA

Patrick Bigger
Research Director, Climate and Community Project
USA

Branko Milanovic
Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Serbia

Darwis Khudori
Professor at University of Le Havre, France
Indonesia

Diego Pary
Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the United Nations
Bolivia

Pedro Rossi
Economist and Professor at UNICAMP
Brazil

Monica Bruckmann
Professor and coordinator of the Center for Geopolitics, Regional Integration and World System at UFRJ
Brazil

Jourdy James
Deputy Director of the Center for Research on the World Economy
Cuba

Lisa Sachs
Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
EE.UU USA

Óscar Villar
Director of Social and Humanistic Sciences of the Ministry of Science and the Environment
Cuba

Ranu Basu
Professor of Geography at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC), York University
Canada

Maria Jose Haro Sly
PhD candidate in sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Argentina

Ivette Romero
Ambassador of Honduras to Venezuela
Honduras

Camila Cuasialpud Trejo
Coordinator, Corporación Escenarios
Colombia

Jack Gross
International Editor, Phenomenal World
USA

Maria Fernanda Sikorski
Brazil Editor, Phenomenal World
Brazil

Ammar Ali Jan

Founder and president, Haqooq-e-Khalq Party

Pakistan

Camila de Caso

Program Coordinator and Legislative Advisor, PSOL

Brazil

Efraín Guadarrama Pérez

Former Director General of American Regional Organizations and Mechanisms of the Secretariat of Foreign Relations

México

Marlon Ochoa

Finance Secretary

Honduras

Kai Koddenbrock

Professor of political economy at Bard College Berlin
Germany

Bruno Drewski

Historian and political scientist, specialist of Central, Eastern and Slavic Studies, INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations)
France

Jesus Lara Jauregi

Economist
Mexico

Stephany Isabel Velasquez

Assistant to Vice Foreign Minister of Honduras
Honduras

Simón Gómez

Advisor to Daniel Rojas
Colombia

Alexis Soto

USO Colombia

Colombia

David Adler
Co-General Coordinator, Progressive International
France

Varsha Gandikota
Co-General Coordinator, Progressive International
India

James Schneider

Communications Director of the Progressive International

UK

Paweł Wargan
Coordinator of the International Secretariat, Progressive International
Poland

María Luisa Ortega
Member of the International Secretariat, Progressive International
Ecuador

Michael Galant
Member of the International Secretariat, Progressive International, Senior Research and Outreach Associate, Center for Economic and Policy Research
USA

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