9:00 am - 10:30 am

• Leaving No One Behind: Strengthening Social Protection Systems with Humanitarian Cash Transfers (IMF HQ2 – 03B-838B)
• Evaluating IMF Financial Surveillance (WB I2-210)
• Stakeholder Engagement in the Face of Shrinking Civil Society Space and Reprisals Against Community Representatives (WB, I2-220)
• Financial Inclusion to Financial Sustainability– Empowering Women in South Asia and across the Globe (WB, I2-250)

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

• Can Finance be Effectively Governed? A Spectrum of Views from “Networks of Elites” to “Regulation from Below” (IMF HQ2 – 03B-838B)
• Beyond the Crisis of the Liberal World towards an Economy of Life (WB, I2-210)
• Climate Change and the World Bank Group’s Energy Portfolio: Projects, Policy Lending, and Financial Intermediaries (WB, I2-220)
• Global value chains and Sustainable Development (WB I2-250)

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

• Wealth over Democracy: IMF Governance 75 Years On (IMF HQ2 – 03B-838B)
• Tax for Development, Addis Tax Initiative and the Nordic Model – Reducing Inequality? (WB, I2-210)
• National Regulatory Frameworks and Social & Environmental Safeguards of Financial Institutions in Latin America (WB, I2-220)
• The Importance of Investing in Disability Inclusive Early Childhood Development (ECD) (WB, I2-250)

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

• Weathering the Next Storm - Debt Relief as Crisis Response for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (IMF HQ2 – 03B-838B)
• Listen Up! Youth Leading on the SDGs (WB, I2-210)
• Towards Peace and Resilience in Protracted Crises: Assessing risks and opportunities in Nigeria and Somalia (WB, I2-220)
• Private provision of education through PPPs: Rights, Equity and the Role of the World Bank and GPE (WB, I2-250)

Moderator: Jihad Azour, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department

Speaker: Koba Gvenetadze, Governor, National Bank of Georgia

Speakers:

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

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

• Yeo Bee Yin, Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change, Malaysia
• Yasuyuki Sawada, Chief Economist, ADB
• Ju-Ho Lee, KDI School of Public Policy and Management and former Minister of Education of Korea
• Tu Ngo, Co-founder & Chairwoman, YOLA (Your Online Learning Assistant)
• Sree Ramaswamy, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute

• Moderator: Rachelle Akuffo, Anchor, China Global Television Network

• His Majesty King Letsie III, King of Lesotho
• Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT, Rwanda
• Hafez Ghanem, Vice President for Africa, World Bank
• Aïchatou Boulama Kané, Minister of Planning, Niger
• Dalitso Kabambe, Governor, Reserve Bank of Malawi
• Emtithal Mahmoud, spoken-word poet and UNHCR Goodwill ambassador    
• Ruth Kagia, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the President of Kenya
• Wawira Njiru, Founder, Food for Education
• DJ Switch (Erica Armah-Bra Bulu Tandoh), via video

Moderator:

• Julie Gichuru, Kenyan entrepreneur and media personality

Moderator: Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director, African Department

Speaker: Romuald Wadagni, Minister of Economy and Finance of Benin

Speakers:

• Kemi Okutubo, Senior Information Technology Officer, IMF Information Technology Department
• Frank Adelmann, Financial Sector Expert, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department

Speakers:

• Francien Berry, Economist, IMF Statistics Department
• Leandro Medina, Senior Economist, IMF African Department

• Kristalina Georgieva, Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank
• Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Former President of Chile
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel Prize Laureate, Former President of Liberia

Speakers:

• Maximilien Queyranne, Economist, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department
• Brian Samuel, Public-Private Partnerships Coordinator, Caribbean Development Bank

• Pinelopi Goldberg, Chief Economist, World Bank Group
• Esther Duflo, Professor, MIT
• Carlos Urzúa, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico
• Domenico Siniscalco, Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley

Moderator:

• Melinda Crane, Chief Political Correspondent, Deutsche Welle

Opening Remarks:

• Shaolin Yang, Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer, World Bank Group

Panelists:

• Richard G. Brown, Chief Technology Officer, R3
• Greg Medcraft, Director of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
• Staci Warden, Executive Director of Global Markets Development, Milken Institute
• Carolyn A. Wilkins, Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

Moderator:

• Tomicah Tillemann, Director, Bretton Woods II and Blockchain Trust Accelerator, New America

Armchair Conversation

• Kristalina Georgieva, Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank
• Sir David Attenborough, Broadcaster

Lightning Talks

• David Katz, Founder, The Plastic Bank
• Sophie Hollingsworth, Environment and Oceans Lead, Global Citizen
• Thomas Kimber, Founder, Karün

Panelists

• Roberta Barbieri, Vice President, Global Sustainability, PepsiCo
• Surasak Karnjanarat, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand
• Peter Thomson, UN Special Envoy for the Ocean
• Dag-Inge Ulstein, Minister of International Development, Norway
• Laura Tuck, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank Group

Trainer: Irina Yakadina, Senior Economist, IMF Institute for Capacity Development 

Opening Remarks by David R. Malpass, President of the World Bank Group

• Keiko Honda, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, MIGA
• Jacob Jusu Saffa, Minister of Finance, Sierra Leone
• Hartwig Schafer, Vice President for South Asia, World Bank Group
• Mase Rikweda, CEO, Rikweda Fruit Processing Company
• Kyoo-Won Oh, Senior Underwriter, MIGA

Moderator: Merli Baroudi, Director, MIGA

Master of Ceremonies: Vijay Iyer, COO, MIGA

Speakers:

• Chair: Julio Velarde, Governor of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru
• First Vice-Chair: Maxwell Opoku-Afari, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana
• Second Vice-Chair: Peyman Ghorbani, Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Iran
• Director: Marilou Uy, G-24 Secretariat