Monday,
October
7
1850 I Street, NW, Washington, DC
8:00 AM -
12:00 AM
1850 I Street, NW, Washington, DC
Press Credentials Pick-Up Opens
IMF Headquarters (HQ2)
8:00 AM -
12:00 AM
IMF Headquarters (HQ2)
Press Room Opens
Tuesday,
October
8
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
9:00 AM -
12:00 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
10:00 AM -
1:00 PM
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
Opening Discussion Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary FundModerator Zanny Minton Beddoes, Economics Editor, The Economist Organized by the World Bank Group and the IMF More on WBG's web site.World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
11:00 AM -
12:15 PM
World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
Panelists Naoyuki Shinohara, Deputy Managing Director, IMF Tim Adams, President, Institute for International Finance Luis Miguel Castilla, Finance Minister, Peru Nouriel Roubini, Co-founder and Chairman, Roubini Global Economics Moderator Zanny Minton Beddoes, Economics Editor, The Economist Organized by the International Monetary FundGeorge Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
3:00 PM -
4:30 PM
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
Wednesday,
October
9
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
8:30 AM -
12:00 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
IMF HQ1-3-Meeting Halls A&B
9:00 AM -
3:00 PM
IMF HQ1-3-Meeting Halls A&B
IMF Conference Tax Systems Under Pressure
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President Richard Quest, International Business Correspondent, CNN Organized by the World Bank GroupWorld Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
9:00 AM -
10:00 AM
World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
The End of Poverty. Really? - Jim Yong Kim in an interview with CNN's Richard Quest
Panelists David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF Joyce Chang, Global Head of Fixed Income Research, JP Morgan Charles Evans, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Kazuo Momma, Assistant Governor, Bank of Japan Manuel Ramos-Francia, Deputy Governor, Bank of Mexico Moderator David Wessel, Wall Street Journal Organized by the International Monetary FundGeorge Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
10:00 AM -
11:30 AM
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
WSJ LIVE Unconventional Monetary Policies and their Cross-Country Spillovers
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
10:30 AM -
12:00 PM
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
World Bank J Building, J 1-050
11:00 AM -
1:00 PM
World Bank J Building, J 1-050
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
11:30 AM -
12:00 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
IMF Press Briefing Fiscal Monitor Report with Michael Keen and Martine Guerguil, Deputy Director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department
Featuring Dr. Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank Group Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Finance of the Republic of South Africa Santiago Levy, Vice-President for Sectors and Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank Moderator Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times Organized by the World Bank GroupWorld Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
12:30 PM -
1:30 PM
World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
From Poverty to Prosperity
IMF HQ2-3-748
2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
IMF HQ2-3-748
World Bank Press Briefing South Asia Economic Focus
Panelists Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director,IMF Maryam Khosrowshahi, Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Carmen Reinhart, Professor of the International Financial System, Harvard University Henry Rotich, Treasury Cabinet Secretary, Kenya Nguyen Van Binh, Governor, State Bank of Vietnam Moderator Yanqing Yang, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, China Business News Organized by the International Monetary FundIMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
2:00 PM -
3:15 PM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
Frontier Economies The Next Generation of Emerging Markets
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
2:00 PM -
3:30 PM
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
World Bank MC Building, Jim Wolfensohn Atrium
3:00 PM -
4:00 PM
World Bank MC Building, Jim Wolfensohn Atrium
Panelists Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF Alan Auerbach, Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, University of California, Berkeley Maria Kiwanuka, Minister of Finance, Uganda Fernando Aportela Rodriguez, Minister of Finance, Mexico Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Minister of Finance, South Africa Moderator Tom Keene, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Television and Radio Organized by the International Monetary FundGeorge Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
4:00 PM -
5:30 PM
World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
World Bank Group IFC Building, L-101
4:00 PM -
5:30 PM
World Bank Group IFC Building, L-101
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121
5:00 PM -
6:00 PM
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121
CSO Town Hall
Thursday,
October
10
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
8:45 AM -
12:00 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
9:30 AM -
12:00 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
IMF Press Briefing IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde
World Bank J Building, J 1-050
9:30 AM -
12:00 PM
World Bank J Building, J 1-050
Eurozone Crisis Seminar WBG
Welcoming Remarks Hasan Tuluy, Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, WBG Ángel Ron, President, Banco Popular Español; and Javier Moreno, Editor in Chief, El País. Special Addresses Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group Opening Remarks Mr. Enrique V. Iglesias, Secretary-General, Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat. Speakers Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development Mauricio Cardenas, Minister of Finance, Colombia Marta Lagos, Executive Director, Latinobarometro Fernando Lorenzo, Minister of Finance, Uruguay Moderator Moises Naim, Chief International Columnist, El Pais Closing Remarks Luciano Coutinho, President, BNDES, Brazil Organized by the World Bank GroupWorld Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
10:00 AM -
12:00 PM
World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
The Rise of the Middle Class and the Service Delivery Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
11:00 AM -
11:45 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
Press Briefing Commonwealth Finance Ministers
IMF HQ2-3-748
11:00 AM -
12:00 PM
IMF HQ2-3-748
World Bank Press Briefing State of the MENA Region
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
11:00 AM -
12:15 PM
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
The Challenge of Exiting from Fragility IMF
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
11:15 AM -
12:30 PM
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
12:45 PM -
1:45 PM
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
Latin America Preparing for Leaner Times IMF
Panelists Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF Yi Gang, Deputy Governor, People’s Bank of China Luis de Guindos, Minister of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India Moderator Richard Quest, International Anchor, CNN Organized by the International Monetary FundGeorge Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
1:30 PM -
2:30 PM
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
2:00 PM -
3:30 PM
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
Panelists Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director, IMF ��igo Fern�ndez de Mesa, Treasury Secretary, Minister of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain Jean Lemierre, Advisor to the Chairman, BNP Paribas Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Harvard UniversityModerator Gillian Tett, Assistant Editor, Financial Times Organized by the International Monetary FundGeorge Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
World Bank Group IFC Building, IFC Auditorium
5:00 PM -
6:30 PM
World Bank Group IFC Building, IFC Auditorium
Leveraging New Sources of Finance for the Public Good WBG
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
6:30 PM -
12:00 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
Press Briefing G-24 Meeting
Friday,
October
11
IMF HQ2-3-748
8:15 AM -
9:00 AM
IMF HQ2-3-748
IMF Press Briefing European Department Press Conference
DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D St NW
9:00 AM -
10:15 AM
DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D St NW
Annual Meetings Plenary This event is by-invitation-only.
IMF HQ2-3-748
9:15 AM -
10:00 AM
IMF HQ2-3-748
IMF Press Briefing Asia and Pacific Economic Outlook
IMF HQ2-3-748
10:15 AM -
11:00 AM
IMF HQ2-3-748
IMF Press Briefing Middle East and Central Asia Regional Economic Outlook
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
10:35 AM -
10:45 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
G-20 Family Photograph
IMF HQ2-3-748
11:00 AM -
12:00 PM
IMF HQ2-3-748
World Bank Press Briefing ECA Economic Update
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121
11:00 AM -
12:30 PM
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-301
11:00 AM -
12:30 PM
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-301
Featuring Matata Ponyo Mapon, Prime Minister, the Democratic Republic of Congo Daniel Kaufmann, President, Revenue Watch Institute Michiel Kool, Executive Vice President for Social Performance, Shell Clare Short, Chair, the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, Prime Minister, Timor-Leste Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer, World Bank Group Janine Di Giovanni, Newsweek’s Middle East Editor, Author Heikki Holmaas, Minister of International Development, Norway Organized by the World Bank GroupWorld Bank J Building, J B1-080
11:00 AM -
12:30 PM
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
11:30 AM -
1:00 PM
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
Towards Better Economic Policy Making Strengthening Africa’s Data IMF Panelists Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Claver Gatete, Minister, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda Pierre Ndiaye, Director or Forecasting Research, Ministry of Ecnomy and Finance, Senegal Mthuli Ncube, Chief Economist and Vice President, African Development Bank Morten Jerven, Assistant Professor, Simon Frasier University, Canada, and Author, Poor NumbersModerator Simon Rogers, Author, Facts are Sacred
IMF HQ2-3-748
12:15 PM -
1:00 PM
IMF HQ2-3-748
World Bank MC Building
1:00 PM -
1:45 PM
World Bank MC Building
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
1:30 PM -
2:00 PM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
Press Briefing G-20 Meeting
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121
2:00 PM -
3:30 PM
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121
Public and Private Approaches for Greater Access by 2020 Featuring Dr. Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, Honorary Patron of the G20 GPFI Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria James Mwangi, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Equity Bank, Kenya Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered Bank Frank Sesno, Director, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University Prof. Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, The World Economic Forum Organized by the World Bank GroupWorld Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
2:00 PM -
3:30 PM
World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium
Special Remarks Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group Speakers Rajiv Shah, Administrator, USAID Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Development, UK Department for International Development Hans Rosling, Director, Gapminder Foundation Armida Alisjahbana, Minister of Economic Planning and Development, Indonesia Sakhr Al-Wajeeh, Minister of Finance, Yemen Ato Sufian Ahmed, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Ethiopia Shanker Prasad Koirala, Minister of Finance, Nepal Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, Minister of Finance, Afghanistan Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Nigeria Moderator Femi Oke, Host, Al Jazeera Journalist Organized by the World Bank GroupWorld Bank J Building, J B1-080
2:30 PM -
4:00 PM
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
What Will It Take to Achieve Both Healthy Children and Healthy Economies?
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
4:00 PM -
5:30 PM
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
The Energy Boom in North America A Global game Changer? IMF Panelists Alejandro Werner, Director of Western Hemisphere Department, International Monetary Fund Alejandro Diaz de Leon Carrillo, Deputy Undersecretary, Public Credit, Ministry of Finance, Mexico John Murray, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada Shannon O'Neil, Senior Fellow, Council for Foreign Relations Daniel Yergin, Chairman, Vice Chairman, IHS Moderator Enrique Acevedo, Univision
<br /> <br /> <p><span style="font-style: italic">Speakers</span>:</p><br /> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: bold">Dr. Jim Yong Kim</span>, President, World Bank Group</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold">Michael Porter</span>, Professor, Harvard Business School</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold">Jin-Yong Cai</span>, CEO and EVP, IFC</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold">Kaushik Basu</span>, Chief Economist, World Bank Group </li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold">Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin</span>, CEO of eleni llc and Founder, Ethiopia Commodity Exchange</li></ul><br /> <p><span style="font-style: italic">Moderator</span>:<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold">Tony Fratto</span>, CNBC Business Week Contributor, Former White House Deputy Press Secretary and US Treasury Assistant Secretary</p><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic">Organized by the World Bank Group</span>
World Bank Group IFC Building, IFC Auditorium
4:30 PM -
5:30 PM
World Bank Group IFC Building, IFC Auditorium
Creating Shared Value Through Private Sector Development—Why it Matters
Speakers:
- Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
- Michael Porter, Professor, Harvard Business School
- Jin-Yong Cai, CEO and EVP, IFC
- Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist, World Bank Group
- Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin, CEO of eleni llc and Founder, Ethiopia Commodity Exchange
Moderator:
Tony Fratto, CNBC Business Week Contributor, Former White House Deputy Press Secretary and US Treasury Assistant Secretary
Organized by the World Bank Group
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
5:30 PM -
7:00 PM
World Bank J Building, J B1-080
Resilience Dialogue Poverty Reduction in a Time of Extremes WBG
Saturday,
October
12
IMF HQ2-3-748
9:00 AM -
10:00 AM
IMF HQ2-3-748
Joint IFI Action Plan Briefing - Financing Growth in Central and Southeastern Europe WBG Participants Laura Tuck, World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Werner Hoyer, EIB President Sir Suma Chakrabarti, EBRD President Comments Adrian Fullani, Governor of the Bank of Albania Boris Vujcic, Governor of the Croatian National Bank
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-301
9:30 AM -
11:00 AM
World Bank MC Building, MC 13-301
World Bank J Building, J 1-050
9:30 AM -
11:00 AM
World Bank J Building, J 1-050
IMF HQ1, Main Entrance
9:45 AM -
10:00 AM
IMF HQ1, Main Entrance
IMF Governors Photograph
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 1
10:15 AM -
10:25 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 1
IMFC Working Photograph
IMF HQ2-3-748
11:00 AM -
12:00 PM
IMF HQ2-3-748
IMF Press Briefing African Finance Ministers
World Bank MC Building, MC2-800
11:30 AM -
1:00 PM
World Bank MC Building, MC2-800
Sharing Knowledge to Deliver Effective Development Cooperation, organized by the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation WBG
World Bank J Building, J 1-050
1:00 PM -
2:30 PM
World Bank J Building, J 1-050
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
1:15 PM -
1:45 PM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
Press Briefing IMFC Chair Tharman Shanmugaratnam and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
Kick-Starting Job-Creating Growth in the Middle East and North Africa IMF Panelist Ragui Assaad, Professor of Planning and Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Moncef Cheikh-Rouhou, Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee, National Constituent Assembly, Tunisia Arif Masood Naqvi, Founder and Group Chief Executive, Abraaj Group Sidi Ould Tah, Minister of Economic Affairs and Development, MauritaniaModerator Nemat Shafik, IMF Deputy Managing Director
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
Sovereign Debt Restructuring Lessons from Recent Experience IMF Panelists David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Research, EBRD Lee Buchheit, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Rafael Molina, Partner, Newstate Partners Robert Gray, Chairman, Debt Financing and Advisory Group, HSBC Moderator Felix Salmon, Reuters
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
5:00 PM -
6:30 PM
George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
Per Jacobsson Lecture “Central Banking in the Crisis – Conceptual Convergence – Open questions on Unconventional Monetary Policy” Lecturer Jean Claude Trichet, Former President of the European Central Bank and Honorary Governor of the Banque de France
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
5:30 PM -
12:00 AM
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
Sunday,
October
13
TBD
8:00 AM -
2:00 PM
TBD