IMF World Bank Meetings
IMF World Bank Meetings
RBWC in partnership with AIFC

IMF World Bank Meetings. A Week of Digital Sessions

 

Day 1

Monday, 12 October 2020

The Economics of Pandemics: The Role of Data

(session registration link)

10.00 – 11.00 London , 11.00 – 12.00 Paris, 17.00-18.00 Beijing

Bruno Tissot, Head, BIS Statistics, and Head of the Secretariat of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics 

Karel Musil ,Director of the Macroeconomic Forecasting Division, Czech national Bank

Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalization and Development, University of Oxford  

Javier Perez, Director General ,International Economics and Euro Area Department, Bank of Spain

Hayk Avetisyan, Head, Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of Armenia 

Ousmene Mandeng, Senior Advisor, Accenture (moderator)

 

Day 2

Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Macro-Economic Policy in Transition: 

Perspectives from Advanced and Emerging Countries

(session registration link)

16.00 – 17.15 London ,17.00 – 18.15 Paris, 11.00 – 12.15 New York,

Pablo Hernández de Cos, 

Governor, Bank of Spain

Alejandro Diaz De Leon, Governor, Banco de Mexico

Julio Velarde, Governor, Central Reserve Bank of Peru 

Fernanda Nechio, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Brazil

Rashad Cassim, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of South Africa 

Massimiliano Castelli, Managing Director, UBS Asset Management (chair)

 

Day 3

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

CBDC + Private Sector = A Recipe for Innovation? 

(session registration link)

15.30 – 15.15 London, 16.30 – 16.15 Paris, 10.30 – 11.15 New York

Perianne Boring, Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce (welcome)

Michael Spitz, CEO, Main Incubator, Commerzbank

Tim Grant,  Head of Business, SDX 

Wee Kee Toh, Deputy Director in the FinTech and Innovation Group (FTIG), Monetary Authority of Singapore

Timothy Lane, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

Caroline Pham, Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Citi

John Velissarios, Global Managing Director, Accenture (moderator)

 

The Future of Money Reimagined for Financial Inclusion 

(session registration link)

16.15 – 18.00 London , 17.15 – 19.00 Paris, 11.15 – 12.00 New York

Steven Becker, President and COO, Maker Foundation 

Anikó Szombati, Chief Digital Officer, Central Bank of Hungary

Purwa Khera,   Economist, IMF 

Denelle Dixon, Executive Director,  Stellar Development Foundation

Harish Natarajan, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank (moderator)

 

Day 4

Thursday, 15 October 2020

Fiscal Policy Panel 

(session registration link)

13.15 – 14.00 London, 14. 15 – 15.00 Paris, 8.15 – 9. 00 New York

Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economy, European Commission 

Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Professor of the Practice in the Department of Economics, Harvard University 

Beat Siegenthaler, Global Macro Advisor, UBS Investment Bank (chair)

 

Day 5

FRIDAY, 16 October 2020

A Conversation about the US election 

(session registration link)

13.00– 13.45 London, 14.00 – 14.45 Paris, 8.00 – 8.45 New York

Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

Tony Fratto, Partner and Founder, Hamilton Place Strategies

 

Macro-Economic Policy in Transition 

(session registration link)

14.30 – 16.00 London, 15.30 – 17.00 Paris, 9.30 – 11.00 New York

James Bullard, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis 

Masazumi Wakatabe, Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan

Beat Siegenthaler, Global Macro Advisor, UBS Investment Bank (chair)

 

Agenda subject to minor changes. For regular updates please visit https://www.reinventingbrettonwoods.org/

 


Online

from
12 October 20
to
16 October 20


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