Empowering Women in the Workplace
IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: October 9, 2018
DAY: Tuesday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Bali International Convention Center (BICC), WE-2-Nusantara 1 & 2
Overview
This panel discussion covers how increasing female participation in the labor force can support countries’ growth, development, and stability objectives, including on policies geared toward helping women cope with new technologies. The panel will draw on IMF’s new research on gender diversity and resilience and will discuss the future of work. The panel will focus on which policy designs are most successful at increasing women’s empowerment and how these policies could support countries’ growth, development, and stability objectives; including by discussing policies needed to help women cope with technological change.Join the conversation via #Women4Growth
Empowering Women in the Workplace
Panelists
Moderator: Rosianna Silalahi
Panelist: Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde has been President of the ECB and, in this function, also Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board since November 2019.
Between 2011 and 2019 she served as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that she served as French Minister of Economy and Finance from 2007 to 2011, having been Trade Secretary from 2005 to 2007.
A lawyer by background, she practised for 20 years with international law firm Baker McKenzie, of which she became Global Chair in 1999. She was the first woman to hold each of these positions. In 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 President Lagarde was ranked the second most influential woman in the world by Forbes.
She has also been recognised by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was named Officer in the French Order of the Legion of Honor in April 2012 and Commander in the National Order of Merit in May 2021.
Panelist: Priyanthi Fernando
Panelist: Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Panelist: Vera Songwe
Panelist: Carolyn Wilkins
Carolyn Wilkins was appointed as the Bank of Canada’s Senior Deputy Governor in 2014, for a seven-year term.
As Senior Deputy Governor, Ms. Wilkins oversees the strategic planning and economic and financial research of the Bank. She also shares responsibility for the conduct of monetary policy with the other members of Governing Council, and she is a member of the Bank’s Board of Directors.
Ms. Wilkins represents the Bank on the Financial Stability Board(FSB), and is a member of the FSB’s Standing Committee on Assessment of Vulnerabilities. She is a member of the IMF’s high-level advisory group on Fintech, and chaired the FSB’s FinTech Issues Group.