IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: October 7, 2016
DAY: Friday
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
LOCATION: IMF HQ1 Atrium
Overview
The high-level panel will discuss the role of trade in supporting global growth, and how governments can protect those that are left behind. Panelists will explore the interactions between trade, investment, and growth, including how global value chains may have changed the channels through which trade affects growth and complements other structural reforms. The panel will address a number of key questions. What are the next frontiers for trade policy and what is the best approach to undertake them? How can policymakers tackle adjustment burdens at the national level, and address protectionism at the international level?
Join the conversation via #IMFonTrade
Join the conversation via #IMFonTrade
Making Trade an Engine of Growth for All
Making Trade an Engine of Growth for All
Panelists
Moderator: Shawn Donnan
Panelist: Roberto Azevedo
Azevêdo is the sixth Director-General of the WTO. His appointment took effect on 1 September 2013 for a four-year term. Azevêdo started his diplomatic career in 1984 when he joined the Brazilian Foreign Service. Since then he has accumulated vast experience in international economic and trade policy matters, including dispute settlement. As a diplomat, Azevêdo served at the Embassy of Brazil Washington from 1988 to 1991 and in Montevideo (1992-94) before briefly returning to Brazil to act as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Economic Affairs to the Foreign Minister (1995-96). In 1997 he was assigned to the Permanent Mission of Brazil in Geneva as the First Secretary until 2001. In 2001 Azevêdo returned to Brazil to serve as the head of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry’s Dispute Settlement Unit, where he remained until 2005. Azevêdo’s last position in Brasilia, from 2006 to 2008, was as a Vice-Minister for Economic and Technical Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. In 2008 he was appointed Brazil’s Ambassador in Geneva to the United Nations’ international organizations and Permanent Representative to the WTO.
Panelist: Chrystia Freeland
Panelist: Douglas A. Irwin
Panelist: Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D. is the President of the World Bank Group. Soon after he became president in July 2012, the organization established two goals: ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity for the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries. Kim's career has been focused on health, education, and delivering services to the poor.Before joining the World Bank, he served as President of Dartmouth College and held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has received several awards, including a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, and recognitions such as one of America's "25 Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report, and in 2006 TIME magazine named him as one of its "100 Most Influential People in the World."
Panelist: Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde has been Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since July 2011. She held various ministerial positions within the French government, including Finance and Economy Minister (2007–11), Minister for Foreign Trade, and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries. She was also Chairman of the Global Executive Committee and Global Strategic Committee of Baker & McKenzie.