A recent United States decision to shift its foreign assistance policy is a “black swan” event — one so rare the results are hard to predict — a former U.N. humanitarian leader told an audience at a Devex event on Tuesday.
Anthony Banbury, now president and CEO of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, was speaking to Senior Global Reporter Colum Lynch at a Devex Impact House event during the high-level week of the 80th United Nations General Assembly.
He said that we do not really know how much impact the U.S. withdrawal will have, but that he thought the system could cope so long as the U.S. did not actively oppose the work of the United Nations.