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Monday, April 13
8:00 a.m.
Press Credentials Pick-Up Opens
Press Registration Desk
Tuesday, April 14
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Press Briefing: World Economic Outlook
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IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
(Press Briefing Room)
Olivier Blanchard, IMF Economic Counsellor
and Director of Research Department
Oya Celasun, Research Department, IMF
Thomas Helbling, Research Department, IMF
Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Research
Department, IMF
Ismaila Dieng, Communications Department,
IMF
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Civil Society Policy Forum
The Civil Society Policy Forum will be held from
Tuesday, April 14 to Friday, April 17, as part of the
2015 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and
International Monetary Fund.
It is organized by the Bank and Fund Civil Society
Teams, and will bring together WBG and IMF staff,
CSO representatives, government officials,
academics, and others to exchange views and
dialogue on a wide range of topics.
Wednesday, April 15
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Rethinking Macro III: Progress or Confusion Attendance to this seminar is by
invitation only.
Session 1: Systemic Risk and Financial Regulation
Chair: Paul Volcker
Panelists:
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Viral Acharya
Anat Admati
Philipp Hildebrand
Session 2: Macro-Prudential Tools: Gathering
Evidence
Chair: Stanley Fischer
Panelists:
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
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Robert Rubin
Hyun Song Shin
Paul Tucker
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Press Briefing: Global Financial Stability Report
(GFSR)
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10:00 a.m. - 11:00
a.m.
José Viñals, Financial Counselor and
Director, Monetary and Capital Markets
Department
Peter Dattels, Deputy Director, Monetary and
Capital Markets Department
Matthew Jones, Division Chief, Monetary and
Capital Markets Department
Olga Stankova, Senior Communications
Officer, Communications Department
Flagship: The Power of Faith to Help End Extreme
Poverty
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IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
(Press Briefing Room)
World Bank Group MC
Building, Preston Auditorium
Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
Ruth Messinger, President, American Jewish
World Service
Mohamed Ashmawey, President, Islamic
Relief Worldwide
Carolyn Woo, President and Chief Executive
Officer, Catholic Relief Services
Vinya S. Ariyaratne, General Secretary,
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
Beyond the Boundaries: Program-for-Results and the
Role of Leverage in Scaling up Results
World Bank Group J
Building, J B1-080
11:30 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
Press Briefing: Fiscal Monitor
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
(Press Briefing Room)
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Vitor Gaspar, Director, Fiscal Affairs
Department
Martine Guerguil, Deputy Director, Fiscal
Affairs Department
Wafa Amr, Senior Communications Officer
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. LAC Chief Economist Semi Annual Report: Narrowing
Options for Latin America and the Caribbean
World Bank Group J
Building, J 1-050
Moderator: Mauro Lopes Mendes De Azeredo, Acting
Manager, External Communications for Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank Group
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1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist for the
Latin America and Caribbean Region, World
Bank Group
Big Data for a More Resilient Future
World Bank Group MC
Building, Preston Auditorium
Building, Preston Auditorium
Moderator, Raj Kumar,CEO,DevEx
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2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Andrew Zolli, Author "Resilience: Why Things
Bounce Back"
Ros Harvey, Chief Strategy Advisor, Sirca
Nigel Snoad, Product Manager, Google Crisis
Response
Tony Salvador, Strategy Group, Intel
Corporation
Chris Locke, Founder, Caribou Digital
Rethinking Macro III: Progress or Confusion
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
Attendance to this seminar is by
invitation only.
Session 3: Monetary Policy in the Future
Chair: José Viñals
Panelists:
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Ben Bernanke
Gill Marcus
John Taylor
Session 4: Fiscal Policy in the Future
Chair: Vitor Gaspar
Panelists:
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Marco Buti
Martin Feldstein
Brad DeLong
Session 5: Capital Inflows, Exchange Rate
Management and Capital Controls
Chair: David Lipton
Panelists:
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2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Managing the Carbon Bubble: How to Transition to a
Low-carbon Economy
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2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Agustín Carstens
Maurice Obstfeld
Luiz A. Pereira da Silva
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC4-100
Anthony Hobley, CEO, Carbon Tracker Paul Bodnar, Senior Advisor at WRI, former
Director for Climate Change, National Security
Council, The White House
Preparing for the Sustainable Development Goals:
Let’s Learn from Working With the Millennium
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC C2-131
Development Goals
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Communication for Climate Change 2.0
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC2-800
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Chief Economists Roundtable: Responding to Oil and
Other Global Developments
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC 13-121
Moderator: Jeffrey Lewis, Global Practices Chief
Economist, World Bank Group
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Kaushik Basu, Snr. VP & Chief Economist
(CE), World Bank Group
Augusto de la Torre, LAC Chief Economist,
World Bank Group
Shantayanan Devarajan, MNA Chief
Economist, World Bank Group
Francisco Ferreira, AFR Chief Economist,
World Bank Group
Martin G. Rama, SAR Chief Economist, World
Bank Group
Sudhir Shetty, EAP Chief Economist, World
Bank Group
Hans Timmer, ECA Chief Economist, World
Bank Group
Discussants:
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3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Marianne Fay, Chief Economist, Climate
Change, World Bank Group
Ayhan Kose, Director, Prospects Group, World
Bank Group
Development through the lens
Using Photography to Tell the Story
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC Front Lobby
Panelists:
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4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
MONICA CORCORAN, Director, National
Geographic Your Shot Program
KATHRYN MAHONEY, Communications
Officer, UNHCR; Winner of #EachDayISee
contest
DOMINIC CHAVEZ, Freelance Photographer
JOHN TASS-PARKER, Associate Manager,
Political Outreach, Instagram
Exiting Fragility, Views from the Ground
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
Moderator: Stella Dawson, Reuters
• Mitsuhiro Furusawa, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• Jakkie Cillier, Institute for Security Studies
• Kaifala Marah, Minister of Finance, Sierra Leone
• Al Wazir, Governor, the Palestine Monetary Authority
Thursday, April 16
8:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Rethinking Macro III: Progress or Confusion
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
Attendance to this seminar is by
invitation only.
Session 6: International Monetary and Financial
System
Chair: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Panelists:
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Ricardo Caballero
Jaime Caruana
Zeti Akhtar Aziz
Panel Discussion
Discussants:
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8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Olivier Blanchard
Raghuram Rajan
Kenneth Rogoff Lawrence Summers
World Bank Group President Press Conference
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. The Power of Nutrition
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
(Press Briefing Room)
World Bank Group MC
Building, Preston Auditorium
Moderator: Raj Kumar, CEO, Devex
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9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director and
Chief Operating Officer, World Bank Group
Michael Anderson, CEO, The Children’s
Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
Phyllis Costanza, CEO, UBS Optimus
Foundation
Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF
Press Availability Regarding WBG/IMF Annual
Meetings in Lima, Peru
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Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF Jim Kim, President, World Bank Group
Alonso Segura, Finance Minister, Peru
Julio Velarde, Governor of the Central
Reserve Bank of Peru
9:50 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. IMF Managing Director Press Conference
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IMF HQ2 Atrium
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director,
IMF
Gerry Rice, Director, Communications
Department, IMF
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
(Press Briefing Room)
10:00 a.m. - 12:00
p.m.
Scaling Up Finance for Climate Action, a PublicPrivate Dialogue
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11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC 13-301
Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
Werner Hoyer, President, European
Investment Bank
Rachel Kyte, Group Vice President and
Special Envoy, Climate Change, World Bank
Group
Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner
for Economic and Financial Affairs, European
Commission
Flagship: The Future of Food: A Conversation
World Bank Group MC
Building, Jim Wolfensohn
Atrium
Opening Remarks: Juergen Voegele, Senior Director
for Agriculture, World Bank l
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11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
Jim Yong Kim, President, The World Bank
Group
David Chang, chef and founder, Momofuku
restaurant group
Chido Govera, Future of Hope Foundation
Mark Emil Hermansen, Head of Development,
MAD
David Hertz, founder of Gastromotiva
Arielle Johnson, Head of Research, MAD
Development Policy Financing Retrospective:
Emerging Findings and Lessons
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Gray Areas: Aging and Public Policy Choices in
Europe and Central Asia and East Asia Pacific
MC 8-100
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC2-800
Moderator: Phillip Yin, Business News Anchor, CCTV
America
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Ursula M. Staudinger, Director, Butler Aging
Center
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Robert N. Butler, Professor of Sociomedical
Sciences, Professor of Psychology
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Axel van Trotsenburg, Vice President, East
Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank
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Laura Tuck, Vice President, Europe and
Central Asia Region, The World Bank
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Islamic Finance: Unlocking its Potential and
Supporting Stability
Moderator: Naser ElTibi, Senior Business News
Producer, Al Arabiya News
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
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Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor, Bank Negara
Malaysia
Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey
Ali Al-Madani, President, Islamic Development
Bank
Pierre Gramegna, Minister of Finance,
Luxembourg
Broadcast event: No video or flash photography
permitted for this session
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. World Bank-Africa investor Dialogue on Building
African Participation in Global Value Chains
World Bank Group J
Building, J B1-080
Moderator, Anabel Gonzalez, Senior Director, Trade
and Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank
Group. Chair: Hubert Danso, Chief Executive Officer
and Vice Chairman, Africa Investor
Speakers:
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1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Flagship: The Duality of Falling Oil Prices. Boon or
Bust?
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1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Ashish J. Thakkar, Founder and Managing
Director, Mara Group
Edward J. Mathias, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Thierry TANOH, Minister, Deputy General
Secretary in charge of Economic Affairs, Cote
d’Ivoire
Marcel De SOUZA, Minister of Development
Planning, Prospective and Economic Analysis,
Benin
Cristina DUARTE, Minister of Finance and
Public Administration, Cape Verde
Regis IMMONGAULT TATAGANI, Minister of
Economy and Investment Promotion and
Perspective, Gabon
Erbolat Dossayev, Minister of National
Economy, Kazakhstan
Naglaa El Ehwany, Minister of International
Cooperation, Arab Republic of Egypt
Lutz Kilian, Professor of Economics,
University of Michigan
Accountability for Better Development Outcomes: A
Conversation with Government, Industry and Civil
Society
Chair: Gonzalo Castro de La Mata, Chairman,
Inspection Panel, World Bank Group
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World Bank Group MC
Building, Preston Auditorium
Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
Luis Miguel Castilla, Ambassador to the
United States, Peru
Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
Oswaldo Gratacos, Vice President and
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC 4-800
Compliance Advisor and Ombudsman, Office
of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
(CAO)
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Flagship: Interview on the Global Economy
George Washington
University, Lisner Auditorium
Interviewer: Maria Bartiromo, Anchor and Global
Markets Editor at Fox Business Network
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Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
Broadcast event: No video or flash photography
permitted for this session
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Innovative and Fit for Purpose: A New World Bank
Procurement Framework
World Bank Group J
Building, J 1-050
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Trust, Voice, and Incentives: Learning from Local
Successes in Service Delivery in the Middle East and
North Africa
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC2-800
Moderator: Deborah Amos Middle
East Correspondent, NPR
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Hafez Ghanem, Vice President of the World
Bank for the Middle East and North Africa
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Muhammed Sulaiman Al-Jasser, Minister of
National Economy and Planning, Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia
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Adel El-Adaway, Minister of Health, Egypt,
Nourreddine Chemangui (UGTT, main
Tunisian Union), Secretary General of Primary
School Inspectors union, Tunisia
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Sami Hourani, Head of Leaders of Tomorrow,
a Jordanian civil-society organization Abla
Habayeb, principal of Kufor Quod Girls’ Secondary School, West Bank
The Elusive Pursuit of Inflation
Moderator: Jon Eric Hilsenrath, Wall Street Journal,
Chief Economics Correspondent
• David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• Stanley Fischer, Vice Chair of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the
European Central Bank
• Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and
Public Affairs, Columbia University (SIPA)
Broadcast event: No video or flash photography
permitted for this session
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Aligning the Financial System With Sustainable
Development
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3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC C2-131
Ma Jun, Chief Economist, Peoples Bank of
China
Rachel Kyte, Group Vice President and
Special Envoy, Climate Change, World Bank
Group
Murilo Portugal, President, FEBRABAN
(Brazilian Bankers Association)
Nick Robins, co-Director, UNEP Inquiry
Adair Turner, Senior Fellow, Institute for New
Economic Thinking
Simon Zadek, co-Director, UNEP Inquiry
Flagship: Water Security for All in a World of Scarcity
World Bank Group MC
Building, Preston Auditorium
Moderator: Junaid Ahmad, Senior Director, Water
Global Practice, World Bank Group
Merza Hasan, Dean of the World Bank Board
Panelists:
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4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Pat Mulroy, Senior Fellow for Climate
Adaptation and Environmental Policy, UNLV
Muesse Kazapua, Mayor of Windhoek,
Namibia
Tariq Kabbaj, Mayor of Agadir, Morocco
Irani Bragos Ramos, Secretary of Regional
Development, Ministry of National Integration,
Brazil
Leonard Nxumalo, CEO, Water Utilities
Corporation, Botswana
Jim Carlton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Conner Everts, Executive Director of the
Southern California Watershed Alliance and
Co-chair of the Desal Response Group
The New Normal in Asia: Will Growth Inevitably Slow?
George Washington
University, Lisner Auditorium
Opening remarks: Min Zhu, Deputy Managing
Director, IMF
Moderator: Adam Posen, President, Peterson Institute
for International Economics
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5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Larry Summers, President Emeritus and
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard
University
Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Resilience Dialogue
The Road to Addis: Financing Resilience in the post 2015 World
World Bank Group F
Building, Auditorium
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5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Press Conference: G-24
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Friday, April 17
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Kiyoshi Kodera, Vice President, Japan
International Cooperation Agency
Neven Mimica, Commissioner for
International Cooperation and Development,
European Commission
Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special
Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group
Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and
Nevis
IMF HQ2-3-748
Marilou Uy, Director, G-24 Secretariat
Alain Bifani, Director-General, Ministry of
Finance, Lebanon
Andres Velasco, Vice Minister of Finance and
Public Credit, Colombia
Sufian Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Ethiopia
Randa Elnagar, Communications Officer, IMF
Communications Department
Flagship: Ebola: The Road to Recovery
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC 13-301
Chair: Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
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8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United
Nations
Alpha Condé, President, Guinea
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Liberia
Ernest Bai Koroma, President, Sierra Leone
Press Briefing: Asia and Pacific Department
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IMF HQ2-3-748
Changyong Rhee, Director, Asia and Pacific
Department, IMF
Markus Rodlauer, Deputy Director, Asia and
Pacific Department, IMF
Hoe Ee Khor, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific
Department, IMF
Keiko Utsunomiya, Senior Communications
Officer, Communications Department, IMF
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. The Why, Where, and How of Infrastructure
Investment
Moderator: Ali Velshi, Al Jazeera America
• Mitsuhiro Furusawa, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy, Finance Minister,
Brazil
• Dr. Rajiv B. Lall, Managing Director and Vice
Chairman, Infrastructure Development Finance
Company, India
• Geoffrey Spence, Chief Executive, Infrastructure UK
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
• Alonso Segura, Minister of Finance, Peru
Broadcast event: No video or flash photography
permitted for this session
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Tax Evasion and Development Finance:
Strengthening Global Action
World Bank Group F
Building, Auditorium
Moderator: Jessica Tillipman, Assistant Dean for
Field Placement & Professional Lecturer of Law, The
George Washington University Law School
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Benny Engelbrecht, Minister of Taxation,
Denmark
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Luis Miguel Castilla, Ambassador to the
United States & Former Minister of Economy
and Finance, Peru
Mogens Jensen, Minister for Trade and
Development Cooperation, Denmark
Eric Hylton, Executive Director, IRS Criminal
Investigations, United States & Chair, OECD
Task Force on Tax and Crime
Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
Villa Kulild, Director General of The Norwegian
Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
Leonard Frank McCarthy, Integrity Vice
President, World Bank Group
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director and
Chief Operating Officer, World Bank Group
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9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Launch Event: Initiative to Reduce Global Gas Flaring
World Bank Group MC
Building, Preston Auditorium
Moderator: Anita Marangoly George, Senior Director,
World Bank Group
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Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United
Nations
Børge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Norway
Ben van Beurden, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
Eldar Sætre, President and CEO, Statoil
Jérôme Schmitt, Executive Vice President,
Sustainable Development, TOTAL
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Blending Capital, Catalyzing Change - The Public
Case for Blended Finance
Moderator: Gavin. E.R. Wilson, CEO, IFC Asset
Management Company
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Christian Paradis, Minister of International
Development and Minister for La
Francophonie, Canada
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Director-General,
Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Felix Bikpo, CEO, African Guarantee Fund
Lilianne Ploumen, Minister for Foreign Trade
and Development, The Netherlands
World Bank Group J
Building, J 1-050
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Zubaid Ahmad, Vice Chairman, Institutional
Clients Group, Citibank
9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Press Briefing: European Department
IMF HQ2-3-748
10:15 a.m. - 11:00
a.m.
IMF HQ2-3-748
Press Briefing: Middle East and Central Asia
Department Regional Update
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11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
Masood Ahmed, Director of the Middle East
and Central Asia Department
Wafa Amr, Senior Communications Officer,
IMF Communications Department
The New Global Trade Landscape: Challenges and
Opportunities
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
Moderator: Shawn Donnan, Financial Times World
Trade Editor
• Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, IMF • Douglas A. Irwin, John Sloan Dickey Third Century
Professor Social Sciences, Dartmouth College
• Yi Xiaozhun, Deputy Director General, World Trade
Organization
• Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor to the
Government of India
• Mari Elka Pangestu, Professor of international
economics, University of Indonesia
11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
Beyond Commodities: The Growth Challenge of Latin
America and the Caribbean
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Alonso Segura Vasi, Minister of Economy and
Finance, Peru
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Jorge Familiar Calderon, Regional Vice
President for Latin America and the
Caribbean, World Bank
Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist for
Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank
Group
Marcelo Giugale, Senior Director for Macro
and Fiscal Management, World Bank Group
Jorge A. de Thompson R. Araujo, Regional
Advisor, World Bank Group
Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Senior Economist,
World Bank Group
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11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
Harnessing Urbanization for Growth and Shared
Prosperity in Africa
Chair: Makhtar Diop, Africa Region Vice President,
World Bank Group
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Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Oxford
University Ede Ijjasz Vasquez, Senior Director for Social,
Urban, Rural & Resilience, World Bank Group
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC2-800
World Bank Group J
Building, J B1-080
11:15 a.m. - 12:00
p.m.
Press Briefing: African Department
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IMF HQ2-3-748
Antoinette Sayeh, Director, African
Department, IMF
Andrew Kanyegirire, Senior Communications
Officer, Communications Department, IMF
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Flagship: Universal Financial Access 2020
World Bank Group MC
Building, Preston Auditorium
Moderator: Zain Verjee, Founder and CEO, Zain
Verjee Group
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Her Majesty Queen Maxima of The
Netherlands, UNSG Special Advocate for
Inclusive Finance for Development
Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
Jin Yong Cai, Executive Vice-President & CEO,
IFC
Ajay Banga, CEO, MasterCard
Charles Scharf, CEO, Visa
Budi Gunadi Sadikin, CEO, PT Bank Mandiri,
Indonesia
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State
Bank of India
Chris Elias, President, Global Development
Programs, Gates Foundation
Leora Klapper, Lead Economist,
Development Research Group, World Bank
Group
Jaime Caruana, General Manager, Bank of
International Settlements
Benno Ndulu, Governor, Bank of Tanzania
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Emerging Europe and Central Asia Economic Update
World Bank Group J
Building, J 1-050
Moderator: Andrew Kircher, Communications
Advisor, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Group
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12:30 p.m. - 12:45
p.m.
Laura Tuck, Vice-President for the Europe and
Central Asia Region, World Bank Group
Hans Timmer, Chief Economist for the Europe
and Central Asia Region, World Bank Group
World Bank Country Directors from across the
region will also be available, post-briefing, for
spot one-on-ones
G-20 Photo Op
(head-on pooled)
Meet by the press desk at 12:00 p.m. Press Registration Desk
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Press Conference: G-20
IMF HQ2-3-748
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Flagship: Financing for Development: The Way
Forward
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
Moderator: Gillian Tett, Financial Times
• Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, IMF • Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute , Columbia
University
• Bertrand Badre, CFO, World Bank
• Cesar V. Purisima, Minister of Finance, Philippines
• Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General, United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
This event is part of a series of debates and
discussions on financing for development; it will be
followed by a WBG-hosted event beginning at 3:00
pm.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Press Briefing: Western Hemisphere Department
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3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alejandro Werner, Director, Western
Hemisphere Department, IMF
Nigel Chalk, Deputy Director, Western
Hemisphere Department, IMF
Adrienne Cheasty, Deputy Director, Western
Hemisphere Department, IMF
Robert Rennhack, Deputy Director, Western
Hemisphere Department, IMF
Krishna Srinivasan, Deputy Director, Western
Hemisphere Department, IMF
Flagship: Changing the Conversation on
Development Finance
Moderator: Michelle Fleury, Business Correspondent,
BBC
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IMF HQ2-3-748
Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United
Nations
Afsaneh Beschloss, President and CEO,
Rock Creek Group
Bertrand Badre, Managing Director and Chief
Financial Officer, World Bank Group
Borge Brende,Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Norway
Suma Chakrabarti, President, European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Daniel Kablan Duncan, Prime Minister,
Minister of Economy, Finance and Budget,
Cote d’Ivoire
Justin Forsyth, Chief Executive, Save the
Children
Werner Hoyer, President, European
Investment Bank (EIB)
Donald Kaberuka, President, African
Development Bank (ADB)
Scott Kalb, Exec. Director, Sovereign Investor
World Bank Group MC
Building, Preston Auditorium
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Institute
Luis Alberto Moreno, President, IADB
Christian Paradis, Minister of International
Development, Canada
Lilianne Ploumen, Minister of Foreign Trade
and Development Cooperation, Netherlands
John Rice, Vice-Chairman, GE
Tomicah Tilleman, Director, Bretton Woods II
Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director,
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Why Focus on Results when no-one uses them?
Towards Useful Evaluations
World Bank Group J
Building, J B1-080
Panelists:
Opening Remarks, Mario Marcel Cullull, Senior
Director, World Bank Group
Arsenio Balisacan, Minister of Socio-Economic
Planning, Philippines
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Flagship: Action 2015 Advocacy
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Saturday, April 18
Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United
Nations
Michael Elliott, CEO of ONE
Justin Forsyth, CEO of Save the Children
Julie Gichuru, Television Host and
Entrepreneur
Fally Ipupa, International Artist
D’Banj, International Artist
VIXX, International Artists
World Bank Group MC
Building, Jim Wolfensohn
Atrium
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Land Governance and Climate Smart Agriculture
World Bank Group J
Building, J 1-050
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Press Registration Desk
IMFC Family Photo
(head-on pooled)
Meet by the press desk at 9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m. - 11:00
a.m.
Migration and Remittances: Recent Developments
and Outlook
With a Special Focus on Financing for Development
World Bank Group MC
Building, MC 4-800
Chair: Ayhan Kose, Director Development Prospects
Group, World Bank Group
Presenter: Dilip Ratha, Lead Economist, Head of the
Global Partnership on Migration and Development
(KNOMAD), World Bank Group
11:00 a.m. - 12:00
p.m.
Press Briefing: African Finance Ministers
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Bedoumra Kordje, Minister of Finance and
Budget, Chad
Geraldo Joao Martins, Minister of Economy
and Finance, Guinea-Bissau
Henry Rotich, Treasury Secretary, Kenya
IMF HQ2-3-748
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p.m.
Kaifala Marah, Minister of Finance and
Economic Development, Sierra Leone
Ismaila Dieng, Senior Communication Officer,
IMF Communications Department
State of the Africa Region: Facing the Challenges,
Continuing to Rise
World Bank Group J
Building, J B1-080
Chair: Makhtar Diop, Vice President, Africa Region,
World Bank Group
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IMFC Press Conference
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Presenter: Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Chief
Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Group
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2
(Press Briefing Room)
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
Augustin Carstens, Chairman, IMFC
David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director,
IMF
Gerry Rice, Director, Communications
Department, IMF
Macroprudential Policy: Challenges and the Road
Ahead
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 1
Attendance to this seminar is by
invitation only.
Welcoming remarks: Christine Lagarde, Managing
Director, IMF
Keynote speech: Mark Carney (BoE and FSB)
Panel 1: Shifting risks—from banks to non-banks
Chair: David Lipton, First Managing Director, IMF
• Vitor Constâncio, Member of the Executive Board of
the European Central Bank
• Agustín Carstens, Governor of the Bank of Mexico
• Stanley Fischer, Vice Chair of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Panel 2: Cross-border effects of macroprudential
policies
Chair: José Viñals, Financial Counsellor and Director
of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF
• Claudia Buch, Deputy President of the Deutsche
Bundesbank
• Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the governing board
of the Swiss National Bank
• Ravi Menon, Managing director of the Monetary
Authority of Singapore (MAS)
• Closing remarks: Jaime Caruana, General
Manager, Bank for International Settlements
Sunday, April 19
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Fiscal Forum: The Political Economy of High Debt
Attendance to this seminar is by
invitation only.
Organization of American
States, Padilha Vidal Room
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Falling Commodity Prices and the Myth of Peak Oil:
What it Means for Emerging Markets
George Washington
University, Jack Morton
Auditorium
Moderator: Javier Blas, Bloomberg News
• David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating Minister of the
Economy and Minister of Finance, Nigeria
• Prof. Anthony Venables, Professor, Oxford, and
OxCarre
• Mauricio Cardenas, Minister of Finance and Public
Credit, Colombia
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Flagship: Fiscal Forum: “The Political Economy of
High Debt”
Moderator: David Wessel, Director, Hutchins Center
on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings
• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF
• Joaquim Levy, Finance Minister, Brazil
• Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP and former Prime
Minister of New Zealand
IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2