📅 2 June 2026 🕒 14:30-18:00 CEST
OECD, Paris/Online
The 18th edition of the LAC Forum will take place on 2nd June 2026 at the OECD Conference Centre. Jointly organised by the OECD Development Centre, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Agence française de développement (AFD), the Forum brings together leaders from the public and private sectors as well as high-level representatives from international organisations and civil society to discuss the region’s most pressing development issues.
Alongside OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, Development Centre Director Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, and other distinguished speakers, the sessions will explore actionable responses to Latin America and the Caribbean’s critical challenges, including:
- Adapting to global shifts: How the LAC region can position itself in evolving trade and value chains to strengthen its economies and attract better investment.
- Unlocking investment at scale: How the region can tackle financing gaps by building stronger pipelines of viable projects and mobilising both public and private capital.
And finally, we’ll reflect on what a decade of regional partnership has achieved through the LAC Regional Programme and consider priorities for deepening co-operation and impact in the years ahead.
The Forum is a centrepiece of the Semaines de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes, organised by the French government.
In LAC, key economic sectors such as energy, digital infrastructure, water, and logistics suffer from large financing gaps. For infrastructure alone, such gaps are estimated at USD 150 billion annually. Attracting new investment in those sectors requires improving enabling conditions and supporting credible and bankable opportunities as the pipeline of financeable projects remains limited. Multilateral and national development institutions have a key role to play, not as substitutes for private investment, but as partners that help de-risk and structure projects to crowd in capital. How can they better play that role?
