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. Chair: Hubert Danso, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, Africa Investor
Speakers:
l Ashish J. Thakkar, Founder and Managing Director, Mara Group l Edward J. Mathias, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group l Thierry TANOH, Minister, Deputy General Secretary in charge of Economic Affairs, Cote d’Ivoire l Marcel De SOUZA, Minister of Development Planning, Prospective and Economic Analysis, Benin l Cristina DUARTE, Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Cape Verde l Regis IMMONGAULT TATAGANI, Minister of Economy and Investment Promotion and Perspective, Gabon
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Flagship: The Duality of Falling Oil Prices. Boon or World Bank Group MC Bust? Building, Preston Auditorium
l Erbolat Dossayev, Minister of National Economy, Kazakhstan l Naglaa El Ehwany, Minister of International Cooperation, Arab Republic of Egypt l Lutz Kilian, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Accountability for Better Development Outcomes: A World Bank Group MC Conversation with Government, Industry and Civil Building, MC 4-800 Society
Chair: Gonzalo Castro de La Mata, Chairman, Inspection Panel, World Bank Group
l Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group l Luis Miguel Castilla, Ambassador to the United States, Peru l Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America l Oswaldo Gratacos, Vice President and 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
l 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 World Bank Group J Procurement Framework Building, J 1-050
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Trust, Voice, and Incentives: Learning from Local World Bank Group MC Successes in Service Delivery in the Middle East and Building, MC2-800 North Africa
Moderator: Deborah Amos Middle East Correspondent, NPR
l Hafez Ghanem, Vice President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa
l Muhammed Sulaiman Al-Jasser, Minister of National Economy and Planning, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
l Adel El-Adaway, Minister of Health, Egypt, Nourreddine Chemangui (UGTT, main Tunisian Union), Secretary General of Primary School Inspectors union, Tunisia
l Sami Hourani, Head of Leaders of Tomorrow, a Jordanian civil-society organization Abla Habayeb, principal of Kufor Quod Girls’ Secondary School, West Bank
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Elusive Pursuit of Inflation George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium 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 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Aligning the Financial System With Sustainable World Bank Group MC Development Building, MC C2-131
l Ma Jun, Chief Economist, Peoples Bank of China l Rachel Kyte, Group Vice President and Special Envoy, Climate Change, World Bank Group l Murilo Portugal, President, FEBRABAN (Brazilian Bankers Association) l Nick Robins, co-Director, UNEP Inquiry l Adair Turner, Senior Fellow, Institute for New Economic Thinking l Simon Zadek, co-Director, UNEP Inquiry
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 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:
l Pat Mulroy, Senior Fellow for Climate Adaptation and Environmental Policy, UNLV l Muesse Kazapua, Mayor of Windhoek, Namibia l Tariq Kabbaj, Mayor of Agadir, Morocco l Irani Bragos Ramos, Secretary of Regional Development, Ministry of National Integration, Brazil l Leonard Nxumalo, CEO, Water Utilities Corporation, Botswana l Jim Carlton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal l Conner Everts, Executive Director of the Southern California Watershed Alliance and Co-chair of the Desal Response Group
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 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
l Larry Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University l Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Resilience Dialogue World Bank Group F The Road to Addis: Financing Resilience in the post - Building, Auditorium 2015 World
l Kiyoshi Kodera, Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency l Neven Mimica, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission l Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group l Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis
5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Press Conference: G-24 IMF HQ2-3-748
l Marilou Uy, Director, G-24 Secretariat l Alain Bifani, Director-General, Ministry of Finance, Lebanon l Andres Velasco, Vice Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Colombia l Sufian Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Ethiopia l Randa Elnagar, Communications Officer, IMF Communications Department
Friday, April 17 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Flagship: Ebola: The Road to Recovery World Bank Group MC Building, MC 13-301
Chair: Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
l Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations l Alpha Condé, President, Guinea l Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Liberia l Ernest Bai Koroma, President, Sierra Leone
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Press Briefing: Asia and Pacific Department IMF HQ2-3-748
l Changyong Rhee, Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF l Markus Rodlauer, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF l Hoe Ee Khor, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF l Keiko Utsunomiya, Senior Communications Officer, Communications Department, IMF
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. The Why, Where, and How of Infrastructure George Washington Investment University, Jack Morton Auditorium
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 • 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: World Bank Group F Strengthening Global Action Building, Auditorium
Moderator: Jessica Tillipman, Assistant Dean for Field Placement & Professional Lecturer of Law, The George Washington University Law School
l Benny Engelbrecht, Minister of Taxation, Denmark
l Luis Miguel Castilla, Ambassador to the United States & Former Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru l Mogens Jensen, Minister for Trade and Development Cooperation, Denmark l Eric Hylton, Executive Director, IRS Criminal Investigations, United States & Chair, OECD Task Force on Tax and Crime l Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America l Villa Kulild, Director General of The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) l Leonard Frank McCarthy, Integrity Vice President, World Bank Group l Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Bank Group
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
l Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group l Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations l Børge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway l Ben van Beurden, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell l Eldar Sætre, President and CEO, Statoil l Jérôme Schmitt, Executive Vice President, Sustainable Development, TOTAL
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Blending Capital, Catalyzing Change - The Public World Bank Group J Case for Blended Finance Building, J 1-050
Moderator: Gavin. E.R. Wilson, CEO, IFC Asset Management Company
l Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie, Canada l Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Director-General, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) l Felix Bikpo, CEO, African Guarantee Fund l Lilianne Ploumen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, The Netherlands l 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 Press Briefing: Middle East and Central Asia IMF HQ2-3-748 a.m. Department Regional Update
l Masood Ahmed, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department l Wafa Amr, Senior Communications Officer, IMF Communications Department
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 The New Global Trade Landscape: Challenges and George Washington p.m. Opportunities 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 Beyond Commodities: The Growth Challenge of Latin World Bank Group MC p.m. America and the Caribbean Building, MC2-800
l Alonso Segura Vasi, Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru
l Jorge Familiar Calderon, Regional Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank l Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank Group l Marcelo Giugale, Senior Director for Macro and Fiscal Management, World Bank Group l Jorge A. de Thompson R. Araujo, Regional Advisor, World Bank Group l Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Senior Economist, World Bank Group
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 Harnessing Urbanization for Growth and Shared World Bank Group J p.m. Prosperity in Africa Building, J B1-080
Chair: Makhtar Diop, Africa Region Vice President, World Bank Group
l Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Oxford University l Ede Ijjasz Vasquez, Senior Director for Social, Urban, Rural & Resilience, World Bank Group
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 Press Briefing: African Department IMF HQ2-3-748 p.m.
l Antoinette Sayeh, Director, African Department, IMF l 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
l Her Majesty Queen Maxima of The Netherlands, UNSG Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development l Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group l Jin Yong Cai, Executive Vice-President & CEO, IFC l Ajay Banga, CEO, MasterCard l Charles Scharf, CEO, Visa l Budi Gunadi Sadikin, CEO, PT Bank Mandiri, Indonesia l Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State Bank of India l Chris Elias, President, Global Development Programs, Gates Foundation l Leora Klapper, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank Group l Jaime Caruana, General Manager, Bank of International Settlements l 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
l Laura Tuck, Vice-President for the Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank Group l Hans Timmer, Chief Economist for the Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank Group l World Bank Country Directors from across the region will also be available, post-briefing, for spot one-on-ones
12:30 p.m. - 12:45 G-20 Photo Op Press Registration Desk p.m.
(head-on pooled) Meet by the press desk at 12:00 p.m.
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 George Washington Forward 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 IMF HQ2-3-748
l Alejandro Werner, Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF l Nigel Chalk, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF l Adrienne Cheasty, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF l Robert Rennhack, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF l Krishna Srinivasan, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Flagship: Changing the Conversation on World Bank Group MC Development Finance Building, Preston Auditorium
Moderator: Michelle Fleury, Business Correspondent, BBC
l Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group l Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations l Afsaneh Beschloss, President and CEO, Rock Creek Group l Bertrand Badre, Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, World Bank Group l Borge Brende,Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway l Suma Chakrabarti, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) l Daniel Kablan Duncan, Prime Minister, Minister of Economy, Finance and Budget, Cote d’Ivoire l Justin Forsyth, Chief Executive, Save the Children l Werner Hoyer, President, European Investment Bank (EIB) l Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank (ADB) l Scott Kalb, Exec. Director, Sovereign Investor Institute l Luis Alberto Moreno, President, IADB l Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development, Canada l Lilianne Ploumen, Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Netherlands l John Rice, Vice-Chairman, GE l Tomicah Tilleman, Director, Bretton Woods II l Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Why Focus on Results when no-one uses them? World Bank Group J Towards Useful Evaluations 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 World Bank Group MC Building, Jim Wolfensohn l Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group Atrium l Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations l Michael Elliott, CEO of ONE l Justin Forsyth, CEO of Save the Children l Julie Gichuru, Television Host and Entrepreneur l Fally Ipupa, International Artist l D’Banj, International Artist l VIXX, International Artists
Saturday, April 18 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. IMFC Family Photo Press Registration Desk
(head-on pooled) Meet by the press desk at 9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 Migration and Remittances: Recent Developments World Bank Group MC a.m. and Outlook Building, MC 4-800 With a Special Focus on Financing for Development
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 Press Briefing: African Finance Ministers IMF HQ2-3-748 p.m. l Bedoumra Kordje, Minister of Finance and Budget, Chad l Geraldo Joao Martins, Minister of Economy and Finance, Guinea-Bissau l Henry Rotich, Treasury Secretary, Kenya l Kaifala Marah, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Sierra Leone l Ismaila Dieng, Senior Communication Officer, IMF Communications Department
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 State of the Africa Region: Facing the Challenges, World Bank Group J p.m. Continuing to Rise Building, J B1-080
Chair: Makhtar Diop, Vice President, Africa Region, World Bank Group
l Presenter: Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Group
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. IMFC Press Conference IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 (Press Briefing Room)
l Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF l Augustin Carstens, Chairman, IMFC l David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF l Gerry Rice, Director, Communications Department, IMF
4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Macroprudential Policy: Challenges and the Road IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 1 Ahead
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 Organization of American States, Padilha Vidal Room Attendance to this seminar is by invitation only.
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Falling Commodity Prices and the Myth of Peak Oil: George Washington What it Means for Emerging Markets 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 IMF HQ2, Conference Hall 2 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