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<p style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent;">The 2016 World Water Week will address sustainable growth through the lens of inclusiveness, equity and shared benefits. It is our intention that the Opening Plenary will inspire delegates to reflect over sustainable growth concepts and practice.</p>

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<p style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent;">Speakers will deliberate upon the importance of water for sustainable growth; what it implies and demands from the global community. Speakers will also consider the role of water for achieving coherent implementation of Agenda 2030 and the Paris agreement.</p>

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<p style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent;">Ms. Margot Wallström<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" />
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden</p>

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Secretary-General, OECD</p>

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Director General, Swedish<span class="st" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent;"> International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)</span></p>

<p style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent;">Dr. Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma  (tbc)<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" />
Chair, African Union</p>

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Minister Delegate to the Minister of Energy, Mining, Water and the Environment, for Water, Morocco</p>
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Chair, FICCI Water Mission and Chair, India Sanitation Coalition</p>

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President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Vatican</p>

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Director General, Swedish International Development Agency</p>

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Senior Advisor to the President of the African Development Bank</p>

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Mayor of Stockholm</p>

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Chief Impact Officer and Founder of Reel Gardening and Winner of Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2003</p>
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