IMF Annual Meetings Seminar 2007
For 2007 Annual Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the IMF will organize seminars from 19th to 21st Oct.
Find below various important topics of discussion along with key speakers, timing and venue:
Performance Budgeting (organized by the IMFs Fiscal Affairs Department).
Date: Saturday, October 20, 3:00 4:30 p.m. Venue: HQ1 2-530 (Fund).
Chair: Mrs. Teresa Ter-Minassian, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF.
Speakers: Mrs. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Indonesia.
Mr. Robert J. Shea, Associate Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget, USA.
Mr. Marc Robinson, Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF.
Macroeconomic aspects of aid scaling up and the role of the fund (organized by the Funds
Fiscal Affairs and the Policy Development and Review Departments).
Date: Sunday, October 21, 3:00 4:30 p.m. Venue: HQ2 1-250 (Fund).
Chair: Mr. Mark Plant, Deputy Director, Policy Development and Review Department, IMF.
Speakers: Hon. James Musoni, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda.
Mr. Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist, African Development Bank.
Mr. John Ambler, Senior Vice President for Programs, Oxfam America; Donor Representative (TBD).
Structured financial products: market and policy implications of the crisis in asset-backed commercial paper (abcp) (organized by the IMF Institute).
Date: Sunday, October 21. 4:15 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
IMF Headquarters, HQ1, Red Level-Auditorium (Room 710)
The origins and market implications of the current turbulence
Session I: 4:20 p.m. - 5:20 p.m
Chair: Jaime Caruana, Counsellor and Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF.
Speakers:
4:20 p.m. 4:35 p.m. Saleh N. Neftci, Professor of Financial Economics, Graduate School, CUNY, New York; FAME, Geneva, Switzerland; and New School, New York.
4:35 p.m. 4:50 p.m. Krishna Memani, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank, New York.
4:50 p.m. 5:05 p.m. Kimberly A. Slawek, Group Managing Director and Head, Derivative Fitch
5:05 p.m. 5:20 p.m. Open Discussion
Implications for policy and the proper role of central banks and other official agencies
Session II: 5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m
Chair: John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF.
Speakers:
5:30 p.m. 5:45 p.m. Mark Levonian, Senior Deputy Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S.A.
5:45 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Mark Carney, Senior Associate Minister and G7 Deputy, Canada.
6:00 p.m. 6:15 p.m. Axel Weber, President, Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany.
6:15 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Open Discussion
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