The TDS will bring together acclaimed academics, policy researchers and analysts, IGOs and NGOs with expertise and knowledge in development-related issues, businesses or the private sector, and parliamentarians as speakers on panels to stimulate the discussions. Below is a list of the organisations that will be organising sessions.
Established in 1993 by Professor Rehman Sobhan, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) is a civil society think-tank based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The Commonwealth Secretariat established in 1965, is the main intergovernmental agency of the Commonwealth, a voluntary association of 54 independent states, making up almost one-third of the world's population, a quarter of the world's governments and one-fifth of global trade.