Monday,
October

7

8:00 AM -
12:00 AM

1850 I Street, NW, Washington, DC

Press Credentials Pick-Up Opens

8:00 AM -
12:00 AM

IMF Headquarters (HQ2)

Press Room Opens

Tuesday,
October

8

9:00 AM -
12:00 AM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)

IMF Press Briefing World Economic Outlook WEO with Olivier Blanchard, IMF Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department

10:00 AM -
1:00 PM

World Bank J Building, J B1-080

11:00 AM -
12:15 PM

World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium

The Economic Case for Climate Action

Moderator: Zanny Minton Beddoes

3:00 PM -
4:30 PM

George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium

Wednesday,
October

9

8:30 AM -
12:00 AM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)

IMF Press Briefing Global Financial Stability Report GFSR with José Viñals, Financial Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department

9:00 AM -
3:00 PM

IMF HQ1-3-Meeting Halls A&B

IMF Conference Tax Systems Under Pressure

9:00 AM -
10:00 AM

World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium

10:00 AM -
11:30 AM

George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium

10:30 AM -
12:00 PM

World Bank J Building, J B1-080

11:00 AM -
1:00 PM

World Bank J Building, J 1-050

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

12:30 PM -
1:30 PM

World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium

From Poverty to Prosperity

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

2:00 PM -
3:00 PM

IMF HQ2-3-748

World Bank Press Briefing South Asia Economic Focus

2:00 PM -
3:15 PM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2

Frontier Economies The Next Generation of Emerging Markets

Moderator: Yanqing Yang, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, China Business News

2:00 PM -
3:30 PM

World Bank J Building, J B1-080

3:00 PM -
4:00 PM

World Bank MC Building, Jim Wolfensohn Atrium

3:30 PM -
4:30 PM

George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium

Taxing Times

Moderator: Tom Keene, Bloomberg Surveillance

4:00 PM -
5:00 PM

George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium

4:00 PM -
5:30 PM

World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium

4:00 PM -
5:30 PM

World Bank Group IFC Building, L-101

5:00 PM -
6:00 PM

World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121

CSO Town Hall

Thursday,
October

10

8:45 AM -
12:00 AM

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

9:30 AM -
12:00 PM

World Bank J Building, J 1-050

Eurozone Crisis Seminar WBG

10:00 AM -
12:00 PM

World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium

11:00 AM -
11:45 AM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)

Press Briefing Commonwealth Finance Ministers

11:00 AM -
12:00 PM

IMF HQ2-3-748

World Bank Press Briefing State of the MENA Region

11:00 AM -
12:15 PM

George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium

The Challenge of Exiting from Fragility IMF

11:15 AM -
12:30 PM

World Bank J Building, J B1-080

12:45 PM -
1:45 PM

George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium

Latin America Preparing for Leaner Times IMF

1:30 PM -
2:30 PM

George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium

CNN Debate on the Global Economy Richard Quest

Moderator: Richard Quest, Anchor, CNN

2:00 PM -
3:30 PM

World Bank J Building, J B1-080

4:00 PM -
5:00 PM

George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium

Policies for Growth and Jobs in Europe

Moderator: Gillian Tett, Editor-at-large, Financial Times

5:00 PM -
6:30 PM

World Bank Group IFC Building, IFC Auditorium

Leveraging New Sources of Finance for the Public Good WBG

6:30 PM -
12:00 AM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)

Press Briefing G-24 Meeting

Friday,
October

11

8:15 AM -
9:00 AM

IMF HQ2-3-748

IMF Press Briefing European Department Press Conference

9:00 AM -
10:15 AM

DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D St NW

Annual Meetings Plenary This event is by-invitation-only.

9:15 AM -
10:00 AM

IMF HQ2-3-748

IMF Press Briefing Asia and Pacific Economic Outlook

10:15 AM -
11:00 AM

IMF HQ2-3-748

IMF Press Briefing Middle East and Central Asia Regional Economic Outlook

10:35 AM -
10:45 AM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2

G-20 Family Photograph

11:00 AM -
12:00 PM

IMF HQ2-3-748

World Bank Press Briefing ECA Economic Update

11:00 AM -
12:30 PM

World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121

11:00 AM -
12:30 PM

World Bank MC Building, MC 13-301

11:00 AM -
12:30 PM

World Bank J Building, J B1-080

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

12:15 PM -
1:00 PM

IMF HQ2-3-748

IMF Press Briefing Latin America and the Caribbean Outlook

1:00 PM -
1:45 PM

World Bank MC Building

1:30 PM -
2:00 PM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)

Press Briefing G-20 Meeting

2:00 PM -
3:30 PM

World Bank MC Building, MC 13-121

2:00 PM -
3:30 PM

World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium

2:30 PM -
4:00 PM

World Bank J Building, J B1-080

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

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

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

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

9:30 AM -
11:00 AM

World Bank MC Building, MC 13-301

9:30 AM -
11:00 AM

World Bank J Building, J 1-050

9:45 AM -
10:00 AM

IMF HQ1, Main Entrance

IMF Governors Photograph

10:15 AM -
10:25 AM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 1

IMFC Working Photograph

11:00 AM -
12:00 PM

IMF HQ2-3-748

IMF Press Briefing African Finance Ministers

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

1:00 PM -
2:30 PM

World Bank J Building, J 1-050

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

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

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

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

5:30 PM -
12:00 AM

IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)

Sunday,
October

13

8:00 AM -
2:00 PM

TBD

There is no open events schedule for Sunday, October 13.