From September 26-28, Alison Fahey (Policy Manager, J-PAL Global) and Dean Karlan (Yale; President, IPA) presented at a closed-door workshop on poverty reduction hosted by the King Abdulaziz University Endowment, based in Saudi Arabia.The workshop brought together 35 business, government, and non-profit leaders.

From September 26th-28th, the What Works Global Summit was held in London to promote evidence-based policy and share new evidence, experiences, and best practices.The event was attended by IPA’s Pace Phillips, Sebastián Chaskel, Doug Parkerson, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, Agnese Carrera, and Elizabeth Koshy.

Lucia Sanchez, SME Program Director, participated in a panel discussion on "Data for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth” at ICSD 2016 in New York.Lucia’s presentation provided an overview of the key problems facing SMEs around access to finance, human capital, and markets, and showcased a series of interrelated research projects aimed at testing effective solutions to those problems.