2015 Spring Meetings:Schedule
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Schedule Time Events Venue 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 IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room) l Olivier Blanchard, IMF Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department l Oya Celasun, Research Department, IMF l Thomas Helbling, Research Department, IMF l Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Research Department, IMF l 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 George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium Attendance to this seminar is by invitation only. Session 1: Systemic Risk and Financial Regulation Chair: Paul Volcker Panelists: l Viral Acharya l Anat Admati l Philipp Hildebrand Session 2: Macro-Prudential Tools: Gathering Evidence Chair: Stanley Fischer Panelists: l Robert Rubin l Hyun Song Shin l Paul Tucker 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Press Briefing: Global Financial Stability Report IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (GFSR) (Press Briefing Room) l José Viñals, Financial Counselor and Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department l Peter Dattels, Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department l Matthew Jones, Division Chief, Monetary and Capital Markets Department l Olga Stankova, Senior Communications Officer, Communications Department 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 Flagship: The Power of Faith to Help End Extreme World Bank Group MC a.m. Poverty Building, Preston Auditorium l Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group l Ruth Messinger, President, American Jewish World Service l Mohamed Ashmawey, President, Islamic Relief Worldwide l Carolyn Woo, President and Chief Executive Officer, Catholic Relief Services l Vinya S. Ariyaratne, General Secretary, Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 Beyond the Boundaries: Program-for-Results and the World Bank Group J p.m. Role of Leverage in Scaling up Results Building, J B1-080 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 Press Briefing: Fiscal Monitor IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 p.m. (Press Briefing Room) l Vitor Gaspar, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department l Martine Guerguil, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department l Wafa Amr, Senior Communications Officer 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. LAC Chief Economist Semi Annual Report: Narrowing World Bank Group J Options for Latin America and the Caribbean Building, J 1-050 Moderator: Mauro Lopes Mendes De Azeredo, Acting Manager, External Communications for Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank Group l Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist for the Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank Group 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Big Data for a More Resilient Future World Bank Group MC Building, Preston Auditorium Building, Preston Auditorium Moderator, Raj Kumar,CEO,DevEx l Andrew Zolli, Author "Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back" l Ros Harvey, Chief Strategy Advisor, Sirca l Nigel Snoad, Product Manager, Google Crisis Response l Tony Salvador, Strategy Group, Intel Corporation l Chris Locke, Founder, Caribou Digital 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 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: l Ben Bernanke l Gill Marcus l John Taylor Session 4: Fiscal Policy in the Future Chair: Vitor Gaspar Panelists: l Marco Buti l Martin Feldstein l Brad DeLong Session 5: Capital Inflows, Exchange Rate Management and Capital Controls Chair: David Lipton Panelists: l Agustín Carstens l Maurice Obstfeld l Luiz A. Pereira da Silva 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Managing the Carbon Bubble: How to Transition to a World Bank Group MC Low-carbon Economy Building, MC4-100 l Anthony Hobley, CEO, Carbon Tracker l Paul Bodnar, Senior Advisor at WRI, former Director for Climate Change, National Security Council, The White House 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Preparing for the Sustainable Development Goals: World Bank Group MC Let’s Learn from Working With the Millennium 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 World Bank Group MC Other Global Developments Building, MC 13-121 Moderator: Jeffrey Lewis, Global Practices Chief Economist, World Bank Group l Kaushik Basu, Snr. VP & Chief Economist (CE), World Bank Group l Augusto de la Torre, LAC Chief Economist, World Bank Group l Shantayanan Devarajan, MNA Chief Economist, World Bank Group l Francisco Ferreira, AFR Chief Economist, World Bank Group l Martin G. Rama, SAR Chief Economist, World Bank Group l Sudhir Shetty, EAP Chief Economist, World Bank Group l Hans Timmer, ECA Chief Economist, World Bank Group Discussants: l Marianne Fay, Chief Economist, Climate Change, World Bank Group l Ayhan Kose, Director, Prospects Group, World Bank Group 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Development through the lens World Bank Group MC Using Photography to Tell the Story Building, MC Front Lobby Panelists: l MONICA CORCORAN, Director, National Geographic Your Shot Program l KATHRYN MAHONEY, Communications Officer, UNHCR; Winner of #EachDayISee contest l DOMINIC CHAVEZ, Freelance Photographer l JOHN TASS-PARKER, Associate Manager, Political Outreach, Instagram 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 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: l Ricardo Caballero l Jaime Caruana l Zeti Akhtar Aziz Panel Discussion Discussants: l Olivier Blanchard l Raghuram Rajan l Kenneth Rogoff Lawrence Summers 8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. World Bank Group President Press Conference IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room) 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. The Power of Nutrition World Bank Group MC Building, Preston Auditorium Moderator: Raj Kumar, CEO, Devex l Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Bank Group l Michael Anderson, CEO, The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) l Phyllis Costanza, CEO, UBS Optimus Foundation l Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF 9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Press Availability Regarding WBG/IMF Annual IMF HQ2 Atrium Meetings in Lima, Peru l Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF l Jim Kim, President, World Bank Group l Alonso Segura, Finance Minister, Peru l Julio Velarde, Governor of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru 9:50 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. IMF Managing Director Press Conference IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room) l Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF l David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF l Gerry Rice, Director, Communications Department, IMF 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 Scaling Up Finance for Climate Action, a Public- World Bank Group MC p.m. Private Dialogue Building, MC 13-301 l Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group l Werner Hoyer, President, European Investment Bank l Rachel Kyte, Group Vice President and Special Envoy, Climate Change, World Bank Group l Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 Flagship: The Future of Food: A Conversation World Bank Group MC p.m. Building, Jim Wolfensohn Atrium Opening Remarks: Juergen Voegele, Senior Director for Agriculture, World Bank l Jim Yong Kim, President, The World Bank Group l David Chang, chef and founder, Momofuku restaurant group l Chido Govera, Future of Hope Foundation l Mark Emil Hermansen, Head of Development, MAD l David Hertz, founder of Gastromotiva l Arielle Johnson, Head of Research, MAD 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 Development Policy Financing Retrospective: MC 8-100 p.m. Emerging Findings and Lessons 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Gray Areas: Aging and Public Policy Choices in World Bank Group MC Europe and Central Asia and East Asia Pacific Building, MC2-800 Moderator: Phillip Yin, Business News Anchor, CCTV America l Ursula M. Staudinger, Director, Butler Aging Center l Robert N. Butler, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Professor of Psychology l Axel van Trotsenburg, Vice President, East Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank l 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 George Washington Supporting Stability University, Jack Morton Auditorium Moderator: Naser ElTibi, Senior Business News Producer, Al Arabiya News l Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, IMF l Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor, Bank Negara Malaysia l Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey l Ali Al-Madani, President, Islamic Development Bank l 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 World Bank Group J African Participation in Global Value Chains Building, J B1-080 Moderator, Anabel Gonzalez, Senior Director, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank Group.