2009 Annual Meetings, Istanbul
Boards of Governors

World Bank Group
International Monetary Fund
October 6-7, 2009—Istanbul Turkey
Annual Meetings: Istanbul

Tentative Schedule of Events

Last Updated: October 3, 2009 - Scheduled times are Istanbul time
Events not open to the public

Monday, September 28
8:00 a.m. Press Credentials Pick-Up Opens Venue: Pavilion, Ground Level of the International Congress Center
Wednesday, September 30
9:30 a.m. Press Briefing: Global Financial Stability (GFSR) Report by José Viñals, IMF Financial Counsellor and Director of Monetary and Capital Markets Department
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
Thursday, October 1
9:30 a.m. Press Briefing: World Economic Outlook (WEO); by Olivier Blanchard, IMF Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
Friday, October 2
9:30 a.m. Press Briefing: World Bank President Robert Zoellick
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
9:30 a.m. Seminar: The United States Economic Outlook: Prospects, Risks, and Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean—Chair: IMF Western Hemisphere Department Director Nicolás Eyzaguirre; Presenters: Tim Adams (Lindsey Group Managing Director); Ilan Goldfajn (Itau Unibanco Chief Economist); David J. Robinson (IMF Western Hemisphere Department Deputy Director). Venue: Lütfi Kirdar, Topkapi B Room
11:00 a.m. Press Briefing: IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
12:00 p.m. Seminar "IMF-supported programs: what have we learned so far?" by Lorenzo Giorgianni, International Monetary Fund. Discussants: Prof. Guven Sak and Faik Oztrak. Venue: Lütfi Kirdar, Topkapi A
1:00 p.m. (Doors close at 12:50 p.m.) Special Event - France 24 Debate : What Now?: The World Beyond the Crisis. Moderated by Raphael Kahane, France 24, the special event features Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank Group President; H. E. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Indonesia; H.E. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment, Egypt; Ms. Eleni Gabre-Madhin, CEO, Ethiopian Commodity Exchange; Professor Paul Collier, Department of Economics, University of Oxford Venue: Lutfi Kirdar Convention Center - Anadolu Auditorium
3:00 p.m. Seminar: The IMF and Protectionist Trade Policies: What does the record of the past 15 years tell us? Main presenter: Susan Schadler, Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF Venue: Room Elmadağ 2, Istanbul Congress Center
6:00 p.m. Civil Society Townhall with World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Dominique D. Strauss-Kahn (Note: This event will not have a Q&A session for media.) Venue: Room Beyazit, Istanbul Congress Center
October 3-5
10:00 a.m. Annual Meetings Program of Seminars
(Limited seating is reserved for journalists in the seminars. Press access will be on a first-come, first-served basis.)
Venue: Lutfi Kirdar Convention Center
Oct. 3 10:00 a.m. (Doors close at 9:50 a.m.) BBC World Debate - Global Financial Crisis: Can we Afford the Future? (Opening plenary session of Program of Seminars) Speakers: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, IMF; Niall Ferguson, Professor, Harvard Business School; Christine Lagarde, Minister of Economic Affairs, Industry and Employment, France; Jim O'Neill, Chief Economist, Commodities and Strategy Research, Goldman Sachs; and Güler Sabancı, Chairperson,Sabancı Holding, Turkey Venue: Lutfi Kirdar Convention Center - Anadolu Auditorium
Saturday, October 3
8:00 a.m. Human Development Ministerial Breakfast: Education for All Venue: Lütfi Kirdar, Halic Hall
8:30 a.m. G-24 Meeting (Media: Photo-op only; 8:15 a.m) Venue: Üsküdar 2&3, Istanbul Congress Center
9:00 a.m. Press Briefing: Regional Economic Outlook for Europe by Marek Belka, IMF European Department Director
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
10:30 a.m. Press Briefing: Europe & Central Asia Economic Update - World Bank Regional Vice President Philippe Le Houerou, and Chief Economist Indermit Gill
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
12:00 p.m. Press Briefing: Central Asia Economic Outlook by Masood Ahmed, IMF Middle East and Central Asia Department Director
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
1:00 p.m. Press Briefing: Sub-Saharan Africa Economic Outlook by Antoinette Sayeh, IMF African Department Director
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
2:00 p.m. Press Briefing: Middle East & North Africa Economic Development & Prospects with Shamshad Akhtar, World Bank Vice President, Middle East & North Africa Region Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
2:45 p.m. Approx. Press Briefing: G-24 Chairman
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
Sunday, October 4
8:30 a.m. Press Briefing: World Development Report 2010 with Justin Lin World Bank Chief Economist and Senior VP Development Economics, H.E. Hakon Gulbrandsen, Norway’s State Secretary for International Development; Marianne Fay, WDR Co-Director Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
8:30 a.m. Press Briefing: Climate Change World Development Report
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
10:00 a.m. International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) (Media: Photo-op only; 9:45 a.m.) Venue: Üsküdar 2&3, Istanbul Congress Center
10:00 a.m. Press Briefing: Asia and Pacific by Anoop Singh, IMF Asia and Pacific Department Director
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
11:00 a.m. Press Briefing: Western Hemisphere by Nicolás Eyzaguirre, IMF Western Hemisphere Department Director
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
11:00 a.m. Press Briefing: HIPC Ministers Debt Relief International Venue: Press Briefing Room, Rumeli Building
12:00 p.m. Press Briefing: African Finance Ministers
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
1:30 p.m. Press Briefing: World Bank Human Development Network (HDN) - H1N1 Pandemic Flu Update with World Bank Vice President Ms. Joy Phumaphi, Julie Hall WHO, WHO Deputy Director General Dr. Asamoa-Baah, and UN Senior Flu Coordinator Dr. David Nabarro
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
2:00-3:30 p.m. Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST), with Hart Schafer, World Bank Director, Strategy and Operations, Sustainable Development; Chrik Poortman, Chairman, CoST International Advisory Group; and Rachel Turner, Director, International Finance and Development Effectiveness, DFID Venue: Lütfi Kirdar, Galata Hall
2:30 p.m. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) seminar on "Sovereign Debt and the Financial Crisis: Will This Time Be Different?" With World Bank Vice President Otaviano Canuto, Chief Economist Justin Lin, and Debt Director Carlos Braga Venue: Lütfi Kirdar, Topkapi B Room
3:00 p.m. Per Jacobsson Foundation and Banks Association of Turkey Lecture by Kemal Dervis, Vice-President, Global Economics at The Brookings Institution, and Member of the Board of Overseers at Sabanci University, on "Growth After the Storm? A Longer Run Perspective" Venue: Conrad Ballroom, Conrad Hotel, Istanbul
Approx. 3:30 p.m. Press Briefing: IMFC Chair, Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali, and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
4:00 p.m. Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Panel & Reception: The Post-Crisis Outlook: Implications for Economies and Investors” with Nick Rouse, MD Frontier Markets (Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund); Rory MacFarquhar, economist for Russia & Former Soviet Union & Director New Markets Economic Research Goldman Sachs; Stéphane Pallez, Deputy CFO France Telecom; Cheikh Tidiane Mbaye, CEO Sonatel, Senegal Venue: Hotel Marmara
4:00 p.m. Special Event: Economic Stimulus Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Venue: Istanbul Congress Center: Macka Room (B2 level)
4:00 p.m. South-South Exchange Experience Anniversary Update with World Bank President Robert Zoellick and World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Venue: International Congress Center, Çamlica
4:30 p.m. Report Launch: The Financial Crisis and its Impact on the Developing Countries: Views from the Commission on Growth and Development Michael Spence, Chair of Commission on Growth & Development; Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, India; Kemal Dervis, Former Administrator, UNDP; Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment, Egypt; Danny Leipziger, Former Vice President, World Bank Venue: Lütfi Kirdar – Room: Topkapi A
4:30 p.m. Seminar: IMF-Financial Stability Board (FSB) Early Warning Exercise Venue: Dolmabahçe A" Room, Lütfi Kirdar
Monday, October 5
9:45 a.m. Development Committee (DC) (Media: Photo-op only; time TBA) Venue: Üsküdar 2&3, Istanbul Congress Center
11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Launch of the Access to Finance Project by IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn with UNSG Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, HRH Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, and Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation for the Netherlands Venue: Tophane, International Congress Center
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Infrastructure Crisis Facility Signing, with Lars Thunell, Executive VP and CEO, IFC; and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development TBA
Approx. 3:45 p.m. Press Briefing: DC Chair, Minister Agustín Carstens, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Venue: Main Press Conference Room, Rumeli Building
5:00 p.m. Private Sector Development Institutions - Crisis Response and Recovery Initiatives with IFC Executive Vice President & CEO Lars Thunell & Heads of Private Sector Development Institutions Venue: Uskvdar 2 & 3, B2 Level
Tuesday, October 6
10:00 a.m. Annual Meetings Opening Plenary Session
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Venue: Istanbul Congress Center
1:45 p.m. How Japan Recovered from its Banking Crisis: Possible Lessons for Today -- Chair: IMF Deputy Managing Director Takatoshi Kato; Presenters: IMF Asia and Pacific Department Director Anoop Singh, IMF Asia and Pacific Department Senior Advisor James Gordon; Discussants: Richard Koo (Nomura Research Institute), Daisuke Kotegawa (IMF Executive Director for Japan), Robert Dohner, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury.

(*IMF Working Paper on the topic will also be issued in the coming weeks.)
Venue: Room Taksim, Level B1, Istanbul Congress Center
3:00 p.m. Building Capacity in Conflict Affected African Countries: Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives w/ Joaquim Chissano Former President, Mozambique; Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili, World Bank VP, Africa Region; Sanjay Pradhan, VP, World Bank Institute; Alieu Conteh, CEO Vodacom; Bernadette Kanzayire, Parliament of Rwanda; Dele Olojede, Pulitzer Prize journalist Venue: Lütfi Kirdar, Topkapi B Room
Wednesday, October 7
9:30 a.m. Annual Meetings Plenary Session and Closing Session
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Venue: Istanbul Congress Center
8:00 p.m. Press Room Closes