Press credentials pick-up opens Monday through Saturday from 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM  

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Maurice Obstfeld, Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department, IMF
• Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Deputy Director, Research Department, IMF 
• Wafa Amr, Senior Communications Officer, Communications Department, IMF

• Crowdsourcing for Climate: Community-Centric Technology to Address Climate-Induced Vulnerabilities
• Does the World Bank and Other IFIs’ Citizen Engagement Framework Work in Myanmar and Other Transitioning Countries?
• The Big Shift: Has the IFC Lived up to its Promise to Improve its Work with Financial Institutions?
• Economies in Transition: Inequality, Social Spending and International Financial Institutions’ Policies in the Arab Region

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director, Monetary and Capital Markets department, IMF
• Fabio Natalucci, Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets department, IMF
• Anna Ilyina, Division Chief, Monetary and Capital Markets department, IMF
• Andreas Adriano, Senior Media Officer, Communications Department, IMF

Chair: Martin Mühleisen, Director, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
• Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
• Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General, World Trade Organization
• Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

9:00 am – 10:30 am

• Scaling Up Renewable Energy Access & Aligning with 2050 Pathways
• Infrastructure Reloaded: Agenda, Human Rights and Financing Modalities from a Civil Society Perspective
• CSO perspectives on Operationalising Gender and Income Inequality at the IMF
• The Future of Work and the World Bank

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

• Global Lessons from Nam Theun 2 – The World Bank’s Model Hydropower Project in Laos
• Results for Children: Faith Actors High-Level Advocacy Forum on Investing in Early Childhood Development
• Unexpected Leaders? Highlights in Beneficial Ownership Transparency Progress
• Rethinking IMF Loan Conditionality

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch Session with Moderator of CSO Townhall

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

• Scaling Up Climate and Clean Energy Ambition - The Need for a Systems Change
• Development in the Context of Obstructed Civic Space: Cases from the Asia region
• For History Not to Repeat Itself: Learning from Failed PPPs
• Education Equity, Financing and Privatization: Challenges and Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

• Meaningful Social, Environmental and Gender Consent Consideration Needed in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects
• Building Human Capital Through Investing in Children and the SDGs: Charting a Way Forward
• SOGIESC Inclusion in Regional MDBs – Taking a Leaf Out of the World Bank’s Playbook
• Are We Building Back Better? Lessons from South Asia Disaster Report (2016)

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Vitor Gaspar, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
• Abdel Senhadji, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
• Paolo Mauro, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
• Ting Yan, Communications Officer, Communications Department, IMF

Moderator: Monica Tanuhandaru, Executive Director, Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan)

Speakers:

• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group

Trainers:

• Stephan Danninger, Director, IMF-Singapore Training Institute
• Natan Epstein, Deputy Director, IMF-Singapore Training Institute

9:00 am – 10:30 am

• Towards Social Justice and Feminist Alternatives: Reshaping Economies to Work for Women's Rights
• Wanted: Increased Global Policy Alignment on AntiCorruption and Financial Transparency
• EMEs and Volatile Capital Flows: Policy Challenges and Solutions
• Building a Better IMF: Strengthening the IMF’s Legitimacy and Credibility

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

• The Business Case of Women Leadership: Investing in Women’s Economic Empowerment
• Practices and Lessons Learned for the Implementation of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples
• Tackling Inequality Through Tax Justice
• The Energy Transition in Emerging Economies: Role of Policy-Makers

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

• Accountability 2030 in the Asia Region: Lessons learned from CAO and IPN Cases and Way Forward
• Leading or Following: Shaping the Fight for Tax Justice
• Advancing Effective Development Cooperation Principles in Private Sector Development Financing
• The Unrealized Potential of International Financial Institutions to Reduce Corruption through Conditionalities

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

• Reducing Inequality for the SDGs: Are Governments on the Right Path and are IFIs Helping Them get There?
• Youth Empowerment to Transform Indigenous Communities through Entrepreneurial Innovations & Job Creation for 4th Industrial Revolution
• Rebuild Trust in Government and Improve Infrastructure Spending in Southeast Asia Through Open Contracting and CoST
• MFD and its Implications: Extent, Implications and Impacts of Greater Private Sector Involvement in Sustainable Development

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
• David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• Gerry Rice, Communications Department Director, IMF

Moderator, Ali Aslan, International Presenter, Journalist and TV host

Speakers:

• Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Indonesia
• Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Group
• Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank
• Jean Philbert Nsengimana, Special Advisor, Smart Africa

Opening Remarks: Carla Grasso, Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Speaker:

• Masaaki Kaizuka, Executive Director for Japan, IMF 

Chair: Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Finance and Mass Media, Sri Lanka

Director: Marilou Uy, G-24 Secretariat

Moderator: Karina Manasseh, Senior Communications Officer, Communications Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Sabina Bhatia, Assistant Director, Communications Department, IMF
• Melati Wijsen, Co-Founder, Bye Bye Plastic Bags

Speakers:

• H.E.Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia
• Petteri Orpo, Annual Meetings Chairman, Minister of Finance for Finland
• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
• Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group
• Jianhai Lin, Secretary of the Fund
• Yvonne Tsikata, World Bank Vice President and Corporate Secretary

9:00 am – 10:30 am

• Early Learning in Deprived Context
• Inequality in Asia and the International Financial Institutions (Launching of the report on inequality in Asia)
• Financing Climate Change Without Contributing to Debt Crises?
• Sin-Tax Policy Reform: Policy Tools to Improve Health Behaviors and Increase Financing SDG 3

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

• Sustainable Health Financing to Enhance Human Capital
• Update on the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF)
• Too Many Cooks: Addressing Evolving Creditor Coordination Challenges in Sovereign Debt Crisis Resolution
• Peacebuilding Innovations in Fragile States

12: 30 pm – 2: 00 pm

CSO feedback session

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

• Sustainability and Institutionalization of Social Accountability, Review of Lessons Learned and Challenges from Asia
• Enhancing Social Development Through Meaningful Youth Participation
• Withstanding the Next Storm: Resilient Economies Require Resilient Tools to Weather Crisis and Natural Disaster

4: 00 pm – 5: 30 pm

• Investing in Human Capital to Make Progress Towards SDG #4
• Fighting Corruption in the Extractive and Natural Resources Sector
• Challenging Immunity of International Financial Institutions – A Step Towards Accountability?

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Changyong Rhee, Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF
• Markus Rodlauer, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF
• Odd Per Brekk, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF
• Ken Kang, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF
• Ting Yan, Press Officer, Communications Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Diwa C. Guinigundo, Deputy Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
• Pham Thanh Ha, Director General, State Bank of Vietnam
• Natan Epstein, Deputy Director, IMF-Singapore Regional Training Institute

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Poul Thomsen, Director, European Department, IMF
• Andreas Adriano, Senior Communications Officer, Communications Department, IMF

Opening:

• Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
• Jack Ma, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

Moderator, Karishma Vaswani, Asia Business Correspondent, BBC

Panelists:

• Penny Mordaunt, Secretary of State for International Development and Minister for Women and Equalities, UK
• Heng Swee Keat, Finance Minister, Singapore
• Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA
• Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder and Non-Executive Chairman, Infosys
• Nicolas Miailhe, Co-founder and President, The Future Society – Harvard Kennedy School

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Alejandro Werner, Director, Western Hemisphere department, IMF
• Nigel Chalk, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere department, IMF
• Robert Rennhack, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere department, IMF
• Krishna Srinivasan, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere department, IMF
• Patricia Alonso-Gamo, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere department, IMF
• Gita Bhatt, Deputy Division Chief, Communications Department

• Bambang P.S. Brodjonegoro, Minister of National Development Planning of Indonesia
• Shaolin Yang, MDCAO, WBG
• Mahmoud Mohieldin, SVP, WBG
• Dragan Tevdovski, Minister of Finance, Macedonia
• Ndagijimana Uzziel, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda
• Nicholas Stern, Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the London School of Economics
• Werner Hoyer, President, EIB
• Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Reina Buijs, Vice Minister and Director General for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
• Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics in the Department of Economics at Tulane University, and the Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University
• Caren Grown, Senior Director for Gender, World Bank Group
• Jay Collins, Vice Chairman, Corporate and Investment Banking, Citi
• Ede Ijjasz Vasquez, Sr. Director, WBG

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Jihad Azour, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF
• Wafa Amr, Senior Communications officer, Communications Department, IMF

Moderator, Tian Wei, Anchor and Host of World Insight with Tian Wei, China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Speakers:

• Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank 
• Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, Minister of Finance, Burkina Faso,
• Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
• Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Secretary, DFID, UK
• Norbert Barthle, Parliamentary State Secretary, BMZ, Germany

Speaker:

• Sili Epa Tuioti, Minister of Finance, Samoa

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director
• Lesetja Kganyago, Chairman for the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC)
• Gerry Rice, Communications Department Director

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Adama Koné, Minister of Economy and Finance, Cotê d’Ivoire
• Lucas Abaga Nchama, Minister of Economy and Finance, Equatorial Guinea
• Henry Rotich, Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, Kenya
• Philip Mpango, Minister of Finance and Planning, Tanzania
• Ismaila Dieng, Deputy Division Chief, Communications Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Indonesia
• Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Indonesia
• Perry Warjiyo, Governor, Bank Indonesia
• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
• Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group