Schedule

Speaker:

• Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF

Moderator: Julie Kozack, Director, Communications Department, IMF

Speaker: 

• Concha Verdugo Yepes, African Department, IMF

Opening Remarks: Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF

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

Speakers: 

• Ahmed Gailani Al-Habashi (Yemen)
• Ghalia Damak (Tunisia)
• Nadine Massad (Jordan)
• Taha Namri (Morocco)
• Teslem Zein (Mauritania)

Speaker: 

• Julia Estefania, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Director, Research Department, IMF
• Petya Koeva Brooks, Deputy Director, Research Department, IMF
• Daniel Leigh, Division Chief, Research Department, IMF

Moderator: Jose Luis De Haro, Communications Officer, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speaker: 

• Lev Ratnovski, European Department, IMF

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM 

Progressive Fiscal Policies to End Austerity: Taxing Wealth to Fund the Care Economy (Location: SC03)

Adolescent Girls in Fragile Contexts (Location: SC06 Acadia)

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Transformative Policy Pathways: Lessons from Feminist Economics Programming for the IMF (Location: SC03)

An Evolution to Accountability Roadmap: Lessons for the Bank’s New Chapter (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Speaker: 

• Samir Jahan, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Tobias Adrian, Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF
• Fabio Natalucci, Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF
• Jason Wu, Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF

Moderator: Randa Elnagar, Senior Communications Officer, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Anna Bjerde, Managing Director of Operations, The World Bank
• Gwen Hines, Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children, UK
• Catherine Russell, Executive Director, UNICEF
• Sosten Alfred Gwengwe, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Malawi
• Leila Benali, Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Morocco
• Jordan Schwartz, Executive Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank

Moderator:

• Sandrine Rastello, Journalist

Speaker: 

• Jeong (Daniel) Lee, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers: 

• Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• Caroline Abel, Governor, Central bank of Seychelles
• Sheku A. F. Bangura, Minister of Finance, Sierra Leone

Moderator: Dominique Desruelle, Director, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF

Speakers:

• Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, The World Bank
• John W.H. Denton AO, Secretary General International Chamber of Commerce
• Younes Sekkouri, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Morocco
• Mário Augusto Caetano João, Minister of Economy and Planning, Angola
• Yetunde Adeyemi, Founder, Active Foods Ltd., Nigeria
• Larbi Alaoui Belrhiti, Founder and co-CEO, YoLaFresh

Moderator:

• Sandrine Rastello, Journalist

Speakers: 

• Sailendra Pattanayak, Deputy Division Chief, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
• Suleimane Seidi, Minister of Economy and Finances, Guinea-Bissau

Speakers:

• Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• Masood Ahmed, President, Center for Global Development
• Axel Weber, President of the Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt
• Vera Songwe, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
• Sir Dany Alexander, Vice President for Policy and Strategy, AIIB

Moderator: Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Speakers: 

• Alessandra Alfieri, Assistant Director, Statistics Department, IMF
• Adouf Rouf Talukder, Governor, Bangladesh Bank
• Jim Tebrake, Deputy Director, Statistics Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, The World Bank
• Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC
• Ghita Mezzour, Minister of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, Morocco
• Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ghana
• Torbjorn Caesar, Chairman and Senior Partner, Actis

Moderator:

• Lerato Mbele, International broadcaster

Moderator: Mo Abudu, CEO, EbonyLife Media

Speakers: 

• Audu Maikori, Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Chocolate City Group
• Hannah O'leary, Head of the African Art, Sotheby’s
• Mandla Dube, Filmmaker
• Lanre da Silva, Fashion designer
• Marlene Ngoyi, CEO, Fund for Export Development in Africa
• Brahim El Mazned, Culture Expert

Moderator: Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Speakers:

• Nogui Acosta Jaén, Minister of Finance, Costa Rica
• Hekuran Murati, Minister of Finance, Labor and Transfers, Kosovo
• Njuguna Ndung’u, Cabinet Secretary of National Treasury & Economic Planning, Kenya
• Ryan R. Straughn, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Barbados

Speaker: 

• Mercedes Garcia, Division Chief, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF

Speakers:

• Ajay Banga, President, World Bank Group
• Rose Kimeu Craigue, Lead, Stakeholder Engagement, The World Bank

Speakers:

• Jihad Azour, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF
• Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director, African Department, IMF

Moderator: Wafa Amr, Senior Communications Officer, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speaker:

• Ajay Banga, President, World Bank Group
• Indermit Gill, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics

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Opening Remarks: Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Moderator: Herve Tourpe, Unit Chief, Information Technology Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Yunhui Zhao, Economist, Strategy Policy and Review Department, IMF
• Li Tang, Senior Computational Economics Expert, Information Technology Department, IMF

Closing Remarks: Ivan Pavletic, Head of the Multilateral Cooperation section, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Speakers:

• Vitor Gaspar, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
• Ruud de Mooij, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
• Era Dabla-Norris, Assistant Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Moderator: Ting Yan, Senior Communications Officer, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speaker: 

• Carlos Van Hombeeck, Research Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC
• Suni Harford, President of UBS Asset Management
• Nezha Hayat, Chair and CEO of Morocco’s Capital Market Authority
• James Mwangi, CEO of Equity Group Holdings
• Poppy Allonby, Head of ESG Enablement, T. Rowe Price
• Daniel Zelikow, Chairman, Governing Board, JP Morgan Development Finance Institution

Moderator:

• Rachelle Akuffo, Anchor, Yahoo Finance

Speakers: 

• John Rwangombwa, Governor, National Bank of Rwanda
• Sabine Mauderer, Vice-Chair, NGFS Board Member, Deutsche Bundesbank
• Jean-Paul Servais, Chair, IOSCO Board
• Stefan Ingves, Chair, Toronto Centre

Moderator: Jean Pesme, Global Director, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation, World Bank

Speaker: 

• Chuku Chuku, Strategy Policy and Review Department, IMF

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 

Time to Tax Wealth in the MENA Region (Location: SC03)

African Perspectives on the Reforms of the International Financial Architecture (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Rethinking Food Crisis and Water Stress in Africa, and a Call for Action to Mitigate Climate Change (Location: SC07 Oasis)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Defusing the Debt Time Bomb: The Role of an Effective Crisis Prevention and Resolution Architecture (Location: SC03)

Human Rights Due Diligence as a Tool to Prevent Reprisals and Move from Words to Action (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Development Finance for For-Profit Private Healthcare: Implications for Universal Healthcare, Human Rights and Gender Equality (Location: SC07 Oasis)

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Holding the Fund accountable: Review of the IMF AML/CFT strategy and Progress on CSO’s Requests (Location: SC03)

How can the World Bank Build Long-Term Resilience and Equity in the Global Food System? (Location: SC06 Acadia)

An Evolution Roadmap Responsive to Development Crises? Towards an External Evaluation of the World Bank's Cascade (Location: SC07 Oasis)

Speaker: 

• Alessandra Sozzi, Statistics Department, IMF

Speaker:

• Pablo Hemandex de Cos, Governor, Bank of Spain

Moderator: Alfred Kammer, Director, European Department, IMF

Opening Remarks: 

• Nadia Fettah, Minister of Economy and Finance, Morocco
• M. Chakib ALJ, President, CGEM

Moderator: Abdelmalek Alaoui, Founding CEO, Guepard Group

Speakers: 

• Ghita Mezzour, Delegate-Minister to the Head of Government in charge of Digital Transition and Administration Reform
• Mehdi Tazi, General Vice-President of CGEM
• Mohamed Beouda, Founder, ABA TECHNOLOGY
• Abebe, Aemro Selassie, Director, African Department, IMF

Navigating the Next Frontier for African Tech

Moderator: Uche Okoronkwo

Speakers: 

• Ajay Banga, President, World Bank Group
• Mo Ibrahim, President, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Markets and Opportunities: Lessons Learnt from Founders

Moderator: Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Division Chief, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF

Speakers: 

• Robert Ochola, CEO AfricaNenda
• Coura Sene, Executive leader
• Shenon Welang, Managing Director Francophone, Africa

Designing African Products for African Markets: The Okapi Story

Speaker: 

• Jean Bele, Founder, Okapi Mobile, Kenya

Markets and Opportunities: Lessons Learnt from Founders - Agritech and HealthTech

Moderator: Manal Bernoussi

Speakers: 

• Hamza Rkha Chaham, Co-Founder, SOWIT
• Moustapha Cisse, Founder, Kera

Speakers:

• Anna Bjerde, Managing Director of Operations, The World Bank
• Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
• Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation, Arab Republic of Egypt
• Andrew Torre, Regional President for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA), Visa Inc.
• Ruth Zaipuna, Chief Executive Officer, NMB Bank Plc
• Valeria Diaz, Co-Founder & CEO, Munay
• Hanan Shahin, Co-Founder & CEO, Bloomcart
• Faith Lumonya, Economic Justice and Climate Action Programme Officer, Akina Mama wa Afrika
• Leïla Doukali, National President, Association of Women Business Leaders of Morocco

Moderator:

• Rachelle Akuffo, Anchor, Yahoo Finance

Speakers: 

• Oana Croitoru, Division Chief, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF
• Buah Saidy, Governor, Central Bank of The Gambia
• Dr. Ibrahim Stevens, Acting Governor, Bank of Sierra Leone

Speakers:

Speaker:

• Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF

Moderator: Julie Kozack, Director, Communications Department, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speaker:

• Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari, Minister of Finance, Qatar

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

Moderator: Amanda Walker, Journalist, IMF Today

Speakers:

• Ghita Mezzour, Minister of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, Morocco
• James Stewart, CTO, Public Digital, UK
• Gerardo Una, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

9:00 AM - 10:30 PM 

Financing Universal Social Protection Systems in the Arab Region: What Alternatives to Austerity and Debt? (Location: SC03)

Financing a Just Transition for Africa: Strategies for Adequate, Affordable, and Sustainable Climate Finance (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Barriers to Accessing Accountability for World Bank Group-funded Projects in the MENA Region (Location: SC07 Oasis)

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

Rethinking Human Capital Investments for a More Sustainable and Inclusive Future (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Lessons Learned from Civil Society Participation in Multilateral Climate Fund Governance (Location: SC07 Oasis)

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Assessing the IMF’s Climate Change Strategy: experience from Uganda, the Caribbean, and Argentina (Location: SC03)

Aligning Climate Finance with Decarbonization in the Transportation Sector (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Promoting Equity and Accountability in Pandemic Preparedness: The Role of CSOs in the Pandemic Fund (Location: SC07 Oasis)

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM

A Macroeconomic Perspective of Gender and the BWIs: Thinking Bigger in Times of Crisis (Location: SC03)

Driving Ambition? A Critical Review of the WBG Approach to Paris Alignment and the Energy Transition (Location: SC06 Acadia)

The B-Ready Project: A Significant Departure from the Doing Business Report? (Location: SC07 Oasis)

Speaker:

• Moses Dinekere Pelaelo, Governor, Bank of Botswana

Moderator: Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director, African Department, IMF

Moderator: Shirin Hamid, Chief Information Officer, IMF

Speakers:

• Pierrette Mahoro Mastel, AI Researcher
• Tholang Mathopa, Founder, Leriba.ai
• Kofi Dadzie, Consultant/Advisor, Technology Strategy & Risk Governance
• Kais Mejri, General Director of Innovation & Technology, Tunisia
• Doron Avni, Vice President of Government Affairs, Google

Speaker:

• Jihad Azour, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF

Moderator: Wafa Amr, Senior Communications Officer, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Moderator: Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Division Chief, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Yan Liu, Deputy General Counsel, IMF
• Fabian Schar, Professor for Blockchain and FinTech, University of Basel
• Sunil Sabharwal, President, Payments International
• Alexandre Fleury, Co-Head of Global Banking & Investor Solutions, Société Générale

Speakers:

• Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMD
• Amer Bisat, Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income, BlackRock
• Monica Malik, Chief Economist, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, UAE
• Masood Ahmed, President, Center for Global Development

Moderator: Joumanna Bercetche, co-anchor of the European edition of CNBC’s ‘Street Signs’.

Speakers:

• Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
• Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor, Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF
• Ernest Addison, Governor, Bank of Ghana

Moderator: Lubna Bouza, Editor in Chief, Sky News Arabia

Speaker:

• Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Moderator: Krishna Srinivasan, Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF

Speaker:

• Nigel Clarke, Minister of Finance and Public Service of Jamaica

Moderator: Rodrigo Valdes, Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF

Speakers:

• Sergii Marchenko, 2023 Annual Meetings Chairman and Minister of Finance of Ukraine
• Ajay Banga, President, World Bank Group
• Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

9:00 AM - 10:30 PM 

How can the MENA Region Achieve Climate Justice and Development under Austerity? (Location: SC03)

Mobilizing Finance to End Inequalities, Address Multiple Crises and Build Sustainable Future in LDCs (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Unpacking the Bridgetown Initiative: An Insightful and Dynamic Afro-centric Evaluation and Perspective (Location: SC07 Oasis)

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

IMF quota and SDR reforms: Building an International Architecture Capable of Responding to Evolving Challenges (Location: SC03)

The Implications of Private Finance De-risking for Economic Development in the Global South (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Grassroots Women in the Caribbean: Climate Resilience and Peacebuilding in Haiti (Location: SC07 Oasis)

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Building a New Eco-Social Contract and Advancing Social Security in Times of Debt and Austerity (Location: SC03)

Harnessing the Power of Youth and Adolescents: Advancing Health and Nutrition Through Inclusive Global Partnerships (Location: SC06 Acadia)

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change Alternatives Analysis: Ensuring World Bank Group Paris Agreement Alignment (Location: SC07 Oasis)

Speaker:

• Krishna Srinivasan, Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF

Moderator: Ting Yan, Senior Communications Officer, IMF

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Speaker:

• Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director, African Department, IMF

Moderator: Nicolas Mombrial, Senior Communications Officer, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speaker:

• Alfred Kammer, Director, European Department, IMF

Moderator: Jose Luis De Haro, Communications Officer, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank
• Reema Nanavaty, Director, SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association)
• Amal Hassan, Founder and CEO, Outsource Global

Moderator:

• Rachelle Akuffo, Anchor, Yahoo Finance

Speaker:

• Rodrigo Valdés, Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF

Moderator: Randa Elnagar, Senior Communications Officer, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF
• Nadia Calviño, Chair, IMFC

Moderator: Julie Kozack, Director, Communications Department, IMF

ONLY PRESS ARE ALLOWED ENTRY INTO PRESS CONFERENCES/BRIEFINGS.

Speakers:

• Situmbeko Musokotwane, Minister of Finance and National Planning, Zambia
• Tahir Hamid Nguilin, Minister of Finance and Budget, Chad

Moderator: Andrew Kanyegirire, Deputy Division Chief, IMF

Speakers:

• Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF
• Anna Bjerde, Managing Director of Operations, World Bank
• Nadia Fettah, Minister of Economy and Finance, Morocco
• Sheku Bangura, Minister of Finance, Sierra Leone

Speakers:

• Younès Idrissi Kaitouni, Director General of the Tax Administration, Morocco
• Mirza Gelashvili, Deputy Minister of Finance in, Georgia
• Raul Zambrano, Director of Technical Assistance and Technology at the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations
• Sameera Khan, Manager of Country Programs at the African Tax Administration Forum