The world spends today around US$ 25 billion to provide life-saving assistance to 125 million people devastated by wars and natural disasters. Despite the generosity of many donors, the gap between the resources needed for humanitarian action and the available resources is increasing, reaching an estimated US$ 15 billion. In May 2015, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appointed a High-Level Panel (HLP) of experts to work on finding concrete and actionable solutions to this widening gap. Kristalina Georgieva, Vice-President of the European Commission for Budget and former Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, co-chaired the panel. She will present the key findings of the report and put them in the context of a more fragile global environment which is also the root cause of the refugee crisis Europe is facing at the moment.

Kristalina Georgieva (@KGeorgievaEU) is Vice-President of the European Commission for Budget and former Humanitarian Aid Commissioner.

Before joining the European Commission in February 2010, she held various positions at the World Bank including as Vice President and Corporate Secretary of the World Bank Group.

She obtained her MA in Political Economy and Sociology at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her PhD in Economic Science was granted by the same university, for her dissertation on Environmental Policy. Between 1977 and 1993, she worked as associate professor at the University of National and World Economy.

During this period she was also a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and spent one year as Visiting Professor at Fiji's University of the South Pacific and the Australian National University. In 1991 she went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she did post-graduate research in environmental policy, co-led a course on economies in transition, and consulted on environmental policy in Eastern Europe.

Iain Begg (@IainBeggLSE) is a Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute.

The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) is celebrating its Twenty Fifth Anniversary in 2016. It is a centre for research and graduate teaching on the processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. In the most recent national Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) the Institute was ranked first for research in its sector.

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