Bertrand Badre, managing director and chief financial officer of the World Bank Group, announced a major new proposal for infrastructure funding at an event at the Peterson Institute on June 23, 2014. Heidi Crebo-Rediker, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former chief economist at the US Department of State, David Giordano, Blackrock Alternative Investments, and Yasushi Sunouchi, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, provided commentary following Badre's presentation. For more information, visit: www.piie.com/events/event_detail.cfm?EventID=337