Modernizing Development Cooperation: Alexia Latortue, Head of Secretariat FDCC

Join CID as we welcome Alexia Latortue on March 13. Alexia Latortue currently serves as Head of Secretariat for the Future of Development Cooperation Coalition, where she leads a high-level global initiative to reimagine how development cooperation can deliver greater impact, fairness, and scale for countries around the world. In a period of profound geopolitical, technological, and economic transformation, Alexia Latortue will examine how systems of development cooperation must evolve to remain effective, legitimate, and capable of supporting long-term growth and resilience. As Head of Secretariat of the Future of Development Cooperation Coalition, she leads a year-long international effort to assess emerging trends in finance, trade, climate risk, state capacity, and institutional design—and to identify what these shifts imply for the next generation of development strategies.

The session will explore how countries at all income levels, alongside public, private, and civil-society actors, can co-create a forward-looking framework for cooperation that moves beyond narrow conceptions of aid toward a more integrated approach to economic transformation, shock preparedness, and system-wide reform. It will highlight the analytical foundations of the Coalition’s work and outline actionable recommendations for modernizing development cooperation over the coming decades.

Following the event, there will be a one-hour career chat open only to in-person attendees in Perkins R-429.

This event is part of CID’s Road to GEM programming, which convenes global leaders in the months leading up to GEM26: Reimagining International Development. Through these conversations, CID is exploring how shifting geopolitics, constrained resources, and evolving development models are redefining what effective, inclusive international development can look like in the decades ahead.

This event is hosted by Harvard’s Center for International Development and will be held in a hybrid format. All are welcome. Harvard ID holders are encouraged to attend in person, while non-HUID guests are invited to join via livestream or access the event recording afterward.