Monday,
October

8

8:00 AM -
12:00 AM

TCCI

1:30 PM -
4:30 PM

TBD

Tuesday,
October

9

9:00 AM -
10:00 AM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

10:30 AM -
11:30 AM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

1:45 PM -
5:25 PM

TIF, Hall D5

Workshop on Small and Medium Enterprise SME Finance Experiences from Japan and Emerging Markets

1:45 p.m. - 3:35 p.m. Introduction of "paperless meeting system", Opening remarks, and Session 1: Global Perspective

Panelists:
  • Nestor Tan, President and Director, BDO Unibank, Philippines
  • James Mwangi, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Equity Bank, Kenya
  • Muhammad A (Rumee) Ali, Managing Director, Social Enterprises & Investments, BRAC, Bangladesh

Moderator: Peer Stein, Director, Access to Finance Advisory, IFC


3:50 p.m. - 5:25 p.m. Session 2: Japan's Perspective and Closing Remarks

Panelists:

  • Masahiro Owaku, Executive Officer and General Manager, Credit Division, Chiba Bank, Japan
  • Takatoshi Miura, Director, Finance Division, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Japan
  • Yoshiaki Shikano, Professor, Doshisha University

Moderator: Atsushi Miyanoya, Director General, Financial System and Bank Examination Department, Bank of Japan


Organized by Bank of Japan and IFC

Wednesday,
October

10

9:00 AM -
10:00 AM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

9:30 AM -
11:15 AM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Program of Seminars Sovereign Risk, Capital Markets, and Financial Stability The Interconnections Panelists Laurence Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock, United States Nobuyuki Hirano, President, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Japan David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF Christian Noyer, Governor, Bank of France, France Janet Yellen, Vice Chair, Federal Reserve System, United States Moderator Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, United Kingdom Organized by IMF and Japanese Ministry of Finance

11:00 AM -
12:30 PM

TIF (E/Seminar 2)

World Bank Event Free to Prosper Jobs in the Middle East and North Africa Panelists Inger Andersen, Vice President, MENA Steen Jorgensen, Sector Director, MNSHD Nizar Baraka, Minister of Economy & Finance, Morocco TBD Omneia Helmy, Acting Executive Director, Egyptian Center for Economic Studies Asim G. Keskin, Deputy Director General, Turkish Employment Institution ISKUR

11:30 AM -
1:00 PM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Program of Seminars Restoring Public Debt Sustainability in a High-Risk Environment Panelists Vítor Constâncio, Vice President, European Central Bank Takehiko Nakao, Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Japan Peter Orszag, Vice Chairman, Global Banking, Citigroup, United States Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director, Bruegel Institute, Belgium Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director, IMF Ignazio Visco, Governor, Bank of Italy, Italy Moderator Zanny Minton-Beddoes, Economics Editor, The Economist, United States Organized by IMF and Japanese Ministry of Finance

2:00 PM -
4:00 PM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Program of Seminars Developing Capacity A Partnership for Sustainable Growth Panelists Sharmini Coorey, Director, Institute for Capacity Development, International Monetary Fund Carlo Cottarelli, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund Samura Wilson Matthew Kamara, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Sierra Leone Yuba Raj Khatiwada , Governor, Nepal Rastra Bank, Nepal Takashi Miyahara, Director, International Organizations Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan Lant Pritchett, Development and Faculty Chair of the Masters in Public Policy in International Development Program, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, United States Moderator Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director, IMF Organized by IMF and Japanese Ministry of Finance

4:00 PM -
5:15 PM

Okura Hotel, Akebono Room

Program of Seminars Good Management of Natural Resources Lessons and Opportunities for Low-Income Countries



Panelists:

  • Miguel Castilla, Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru
  • Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Oxford University, United Kingdom
  • Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana
  • Naoyuki Shinohara, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
  • Clare Short, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, United Kingdom

Moderator: Andrew Stevens, Anchor, CNN, Hongkong SAR, China

6:00 PM -
7:00 PM

TIF

Thursday,
October

11

8:45 AM -
9:30 AM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

*Press Briefing IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde

9:00 AM -
11:00 AM

TIF (Hall B7-1)

BOJ-CEMLA Seminar on Regional Financial Cooperation



Panelists:

  • José Darío Uribe, Governor, Banco de la República of Colombia
  • Julio Velarde, President, Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
  • DeLisle Worrell, Governor, Central Bank of Barbados
  • Yoichi Nemoto, Director, ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic and Research Office (AMRO), Singapore
  • Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan
  • Anoop Singh, Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF

Moderator: Javier Guzmán Calafell, General Director, Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), Mexico


Organized by Bank of Japan and CEMLA

9:30 AM -
10:15 AM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

*Press Briefing World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim

10:30 AM -
11:30 AM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Program of Seminars Restoring Hope Policy Options for Jobs & Growth



Panelists:

  • Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, India
  • Anders Borg, Minister of Finance, Sweden
  • Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation, Belgium
  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Nigeria
  • Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Moderator: Sara Eisen, Reporter, Bloomberg Television, United States

10:30 AM -
11:30 AM

TIF, Hall B5

Program of Seminars Women in the Private Sector Good for Development and Business



Panelists:

  • Caroline Anstey, Managing Director, World Bank Group
  • Margaret Biggs, President, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia
  • Larke Riemer, Director, Women's Markets, Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia
  • Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group

Moderator: Su-Mei Thompson, Executive Director, The Women's Foundation Hong Kong S.A.R., China

12:00 PM -
1:00 PM

TIF, Hall C

Program of Seminars NHK Debate--Globalization at a Crossroads From Tokyo to Tokyo



Panelists:

  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Liberia
  • Koriki Jojima, Minister of Finance, Japan
  • Takashi Kawamura, Chairperson of the Board, Hitachi, Japan
  • Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
  • Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, Switzerland

Moderator: Kaori Iida, Anchor, NHK, Japan


Organized by IMF, Japanese Ministry of Finance, and NHK Japan

1:30 PM -
2:30 PM

TIF, Hall C

Program of Seminars Wall Street Journal, The Big Interview - What Will It Take? Restoring Growth, Spreading Prosperity in Times of Crisis



Panelist:
Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
 
Moderator:
Jake Schlesinger, Wall Street Journal's Japan Editor

3:00 PM -
12:00 AM

Fuji Room,Imperial Hotel

G-24 Photo-op

3:00 PM -
4:30 PM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Program of Seminars Global Health 1 The Case for Investing in Health, Again!



Panelists:

  • Martin Hirsch, President, Civil Service Agency, France
  • Maria Kiwanuka, Minister of Finance, Uganda
  • Christopher Murray, Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, United States
  • Haruo Naito, President and Chief Executive Officer, Eisai Co., Ltd., Japan
  • Sania Nishtar, President, Heartfile, Pakistan
  • Akihiko Tanaka, President, JICA 

Moderator: Andrew Jack, Journalist, Financial Times, United Kingdom


Organized by World Bank Group and Japanese Ministry of Finance

3:00 PM -
5:00 PM

Okura Hotel, Oak Room

ASEAN Dynamism Agricultural Transformation & Food Security 2040



Panelists:

  • Armida Alisjahbana, State Minister of National Development Planning / Chairperson of the National Planning Agency, Indonesia,
  • Arsenio M. Balisacan,  Secretary of Socio-Economic Planning, Director General, National Economic Development Authority, the Philippines,
  • Klaus Rohland, Country Director for China, Mongolia and Korea
  • Pierre Jacquet, President of Global Development Network
  • Masayoshi Honma, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo


Moderator: Hiroto Arakawa, Vice President of JICA

3:30 PM -
5:30 PM

TIF (Room G409)

IMF Seminar Navigating an interconnected world Rebooting the Framework for IMF Economic Monitoring



Presenters:

  • Sean Hagan, IMF
  • Tamim Bayoumi, IMF
  • Jonathan Ostry, IMF

Panelists:

  • Jean Pisani Ferry, Breugel Institute, Brussels
  • Gerardo Rodriguez, Deputy Finance Minister, Mexico
  • Takatoshi Ito, University of Tokyo

Moderator: Siddharth Tiwari, IMF

4:45 PM -
6:15 PM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Program of Seminars Global Health 2 Universal Health Coverage - Opportunities and Lessons



Panelists:

  • Nisha Agrawal, Chief Executive Officer, OxFam India
  • Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization
  • Keizo Takemi, Senior Fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange and Professor of Political Science and Economics at Tokai University, Japan
  • Chen Zhu, Minister of Health, People`s Republic of China

Moderator:  Richard Horton, Editor in Chief, The Lancet, and Chair, External Review Panel for the Comm. on Accountability & Information on Women’s and Children’s Health


Organized by World Bank Group and Japanese Ministry of Finance

5:30 PM -
6:30 PM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

Press Briefing G-24, Chair, Mr. Palaniappan Chidambaram, Minister of Finance, India

6:00 PM -
7:00 PM

TIF, Hall B5

CSO Townhall with Managing Director Christine Lagarde and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim

Friday,
October

12

9:00 AM -
10:40 AM

TIF, Hall A

Annual Meetings Plenary

11:00 AM -
11:30 AM

TIF (Hall B7-1)

IMF Governors Family Photo-op Photojournalists should assemble 15 minutes prior to the event starting time in the press room at the IMF/World Bank Press Desks

11:30 AM -
12:15 PM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

*Press Briefing IMF Asia and Pacific Department Director Anoop Singh

11:30 AM -
1:00 PM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Program of Seminars Can Government Policies Lead to Good Jobs for Development?


Panelists: 

  • Laura Alfaro, Professor of Business Administration, Havard Business School, United States
  • Newai Gebre-Ab, Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, Executive Director, Ethiopian Development Research Institute, Ethiopia
  • Mahabub Hossain, Executive Director, BRAC, Bangladesh
  • Akihiko Tanaka, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan

Moderator: Hafez Ghanem, Brookings Institute, United States


Organized by World Bank Group and Japanese Ministry of Finance

1:00 PM -
2:00 PM

TIF, Hall C

Program of Seminars BBC World Debate - Rescuing the Global Economy Whatnext?



Panelist(s): 

  • Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
  • Peter Orszag, Vice Chairman, Global Banking, Citigroup
  • Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, India
  • Wolfgang Schäuble, Federal Minister of Finance, Germany

Moderator:  Nik Gowing, Presenter, BBC World News, United Kingdom

2:00 PM -
3:30 PM

TIF (Room G510)

World Bank Event The Euro and Europe Strengthening Structures



Panelists:
  • Marek Belka, Governor, Central Bank of Poland
  • Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Chief Economist, Emerging Markets, BBVA
  • Vitor Gaspar, Minister of Finance, Portuguese Republic
  • Takatoshi Ito, Dean, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo
  • Philippe le Houérou, Vice President, Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank
  • Klaus Regling, Head, European Financial Stability Facility
  • Lúcio Vinhas de Souza, Managing Director, Sovereign Chief Economist, Moody’s Investors Service

Moderator:

Martin Wolf, Financial Times

2:30 PM -
3:30 PM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

2:30 PM -
4:00 PM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Program of Seminars The Energy Challenge of Africa Energy Infrastructure Development in Africa - Toward TICAD V in 2013



Panelists:

  • Koichiro Gemba, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan
  • Fumiko Hayashi, Mayor of Yokohama, Japan
  • Makhtar Diop, Vice President, World Bank Africa Region

Moderator: Jamal Saghir, Sustainable Development Department, Africa Region, World Bank Group

3:00 PM -
3:30 PM

Room G602, Tokyo International Forum

World Bank Chief Economist and Director of World Development Report 2013 on Jobs to Brief Media



Participants:

  • Kaushik Basu, WB Chief Economist
  • Martin Rama, WDR 2013 Director

3:30 PM -
4:15 PM

TIF (E/Seminar 2)

*Press Briefing IMF Western Hemisphere Department

4:00 PM -
6:00 PM

TIF (Room G402)

GAVI-World Bank Seminar Investing in Immunization A Cost-Effective Route to Reaching the Health MDGs

4:15 PM -
5:45 PM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

4:30 PM -
5:15 PM

TIF (E/Seminar 2)

*Press Briefing IMF Middle East and Central Asia Department Director Masood Ahmed

5:00 PM -
6:00 PM

TIF (Room G701)

IMF Seminar U.S. fiscal policy and the fiscal cliff prospects and risks for the U.S. and the global economy



Panelists:

  • Peter Orszag, Vice Chairman of Global Banking, Citigroup
  • Vincent Reinhart, Chief US economist, Morgan Stanley
  • Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF 

Moderator: Jake Schlesinger, Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires

5:30 PM -
5:50 PM

Imperial Hotel

High Level Meeting on the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program GAFSP Participants World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Minister of Finance, Korea Bahk Jae Wan Vice-Minister of Finance, Japan Tsutomu Okubo


All media require an escort in and out of events at the Imperial Hotel. World bank staff will escort media. A photo opportunity will be followed by opening remarks by the panel. Please gather at the TIF World Bank Press Desk at 4:30 pm for broadcast and 5  pm for print and stills.
Saturday,
October

13

9:00 AM -
10:30 AM

TIF, Hall C

Program of Seminars Competitive Industries From "What" to "How" Implementing Growth



Panelists: 

  • Byron Auguste, Global leader of the Social Sector Practice, McKinsey & Co., United States
  • Janamitra Devan, Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development Network, World Bank Group
  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Nigeria
  • Charles Sable, Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia Law School, United States

Moderator:  Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission, India

9:30 AM -
12:00 AM

Imperial Hotel

International Monetary and Financial Committee IMFC Meeting - Photo Opportunity

Pooled event: NHKi will serve as the Japanese video pool and play out video at the TIF following the photo-op. Photographers interested in a photo pool should email Keiko Utsunomiya at kutsunomiya@imf.org

11:00 AM -
12:00 PM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

Press Briefing African Finance Ministers

11:00 AM -
12:30 PM

TIF, Hall C

Program of Seminars Post-2015 Global Development Framework Is There a Role for a Next Generation of Millennium Development Goals?



Panelists:  

  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia
  • Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
  • Akihiko Tanaka, President, Japanese International Cooperation Agency

Moderator: Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank Group


Organized by World Bank Group, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Japan International Cooperation Agency

1:00 PM -
12:00 AM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

Press Briefing IMFC Chair Tharman Shanmugaratnam and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde start time is tentative

2:15 PM -
3:45 PM

TIF, Hall C

Program of Seminars Strengthening the Euro Area



Panelists:

  • Jörg Asmussen, Executive Board Member, European Central Bank
  • Willem Buiter, Chief Economist, Citigroup
  • Agustín Carstens, Governor, Bank of Mexico
  • Yi Gang, Deputy Governor, People’s Bank of China
  • Vitor Gaspar, Minister of Finance, Portugal
  • Takehiko Nakao, Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Japan

Moderator:  David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF

2:50 PM -
3:00 PM

TBD

Development Committee DC Meeting - Photo Opportunity



Pooled event: NHKi will serve as the Japanese video pool and play out video at the TIF following the photo-op. Photographers interested in a photo pool should email Alexis O’Brien aobrien@worldbank.org

4:15 PM -
5:15 PM

TIF, Hall C

Program of Seminars The Role of Asia in a Changing World



Panelists: 

  • Li Daokui, Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University, China
  • Barry Eichengreen, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, United States
  • Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, ICICI Bank, India
  • Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
  • Masaaki Shirakawa, Governor, Bank of Japan

Moderator:  Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, CNBC, United States


**Camera access is restricted. Please contact jbeckman@imf.org.  No flash photography.**

5:30 PM -
6:15 PM

TIF (Hall D7, Press Conf Rm)

Press Briefing Development Committee Chair, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde start/end times aretentative

Sunday,
October

14

11:30 AM -
12:00 AM

Hotel Okura, Heian Room

Per Jacobsson Lecture



Speaker:

  • Yi Gang, Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China, on behalf of Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People's Bank of China