conference

Welcome Dinner

(Venue: Edo Room, The Main, 1F, Hotel New Otani)

Speakers:

• Yasushi Kanzaki, Senior Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Chikahisa Sumi, Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP), International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Registration

Keynote Speech

• Masatsugu Asakawa, Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Japan
• Mitsuhiro Furusawa, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
• Shinichi Kitaoka, President, JICA

Photo Session

SESSION I: Fiscal Risks and Fiscal Management – Assessing Domestic and Exogenous Risks, and Coping with Fiscal Risks by Establishing Resilient Fiscal Management

A. Fiscal Risks and the Fiscal Risk Management

Moderator: Alex Mourmouras, Division Chief, ASEAN 1 Division, APD, IMF

Presenter: Brian Olden, Deputy Division Chief, Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD), IMF

Discussants:

• Ahmed Mazin, Chief Funds Executive, Ministry of Finance and Treasury, Maldives
• Nara Bahadur Thapa, Executive Director, Nepal Rastra Bank
• Kenichiro Kashiwase, Senior Economist, OAP, IMF 

Discussion    

Coffee Break

B. Public Financial Management in Resource Rich Countries

Moderator: Koki Hirota, Chief Economist, JICA

Presenter: Noriharu Masugi, Director, Governance Group, Industrial Development and Public Policy Department, JICA

Discussants:

• Tsue Ing Yap, Acting Executive Director, Monetary Authority of Brunei Darussalam
• Gombojav Zandanshatar, Member of Parliament of Mongolia
• San San Oo, Director, Budget Department, Ministry of Planning and Finance, Myanmar

Discussion

Lunch

SESSION II: Fiscal Space Towards SDGs – How to Create Fiscal Space for Future Investment Towards SDGs and Real Income Convergence

A. Fiscal Space

Moderator: Brian Olden, Deputy Division Chief, FAD, IMF

Presentation 1: Fiscal Space: 

Presenter: Marialuz, Moreno Badia, Deputy Division Chief, FAD, IMF

Presentation 2: Fiscal Space on Financing Universal Health Coverage

Presenters:

• Teguh Dartanto, Visiting Scholar, JICA Research Institute, and Head of Poverty and Social Protection Research Group Institute for Economic and Social Research (LPEM), University of Indonesia
• Syed Ehtisham Ahmad, Pao Yu-Kong Professor at Zhejiang University and Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research at the Univerisity of Bonne and at the LSE

Discussants: 

• Leonard Victor Hasudungan Tampubolon, Deputy Minister for Economic Affairs, National Department Planning Agency, Indonesia
• Bounleua Sinxayvoravong, Director General, Ministry of Finance, Lao P.D.R

B. Convergence in ASEAN and SDGs

Moderator: Masaaki Kaizuka, Executive Director for Japan, IMF

Presenter: Alex Mourmouras, Division Chief, ASEAN 1 Division, ADP, IMF

Discussants: 

• Angsoka Yorintha Paundralingga, Economist, Economic and Monetary Policy Department, Bank Indonesia
• Soraphol Tulayasathien, Senior Expert, Local Public Finance Policy Dept., Ministry of Finance, Thailand
• Tuan Ba Truong, Vice President, National Institute for Finance, ministry of Finance, Vietnam

Discussion

Coffee Break

SESSION III: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Moderator: Changyong Rhee, Director, APD, IMF

Panelists: 

• Bhutan - Nim Dorji, Secretary, Ministry of Finance; Yangchen Tshogyel, Deputy Governor II, Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan
• Cambodia - Seilava Ros, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Economy and Finance
• Maldives - Azeema Adam, Governor, Maldives Monetary Authority
• Mongolia - Gombojav Zandanshatar, Parliament of Mongolia
• Nepal - Bishnu prasad Krishna, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance

Closing Remarks

• Chikahisa Sumi, Director, OAP, IMF
• Yasushi Kanzaki, Senior Vice President, JICA

Press Conference

• Chagyong Rhee,Director, APD, IMF
• Yasushi Kanzaki, Senior Vice President, JICA