IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: April 13, 2016
DAY: Wednesday
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
LOCATION: George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
Overview
After a decade of
sustained growth, low-income and developing countries have slowed sharply since
2015, reflecting the confluence of a weakened external environment and domestic
macroeconomic imbalances. In the near term, the policy space to pursue
development objectives, including to scale up infrastructure investment or to
support more inclusive policies, have become more limited. Against this
backdrop, this high-level conference will revisit key aspects of countries’
development agenda.
Session I : Inequality, Growth and Resilience
Session II: Scaling-Up Public Investment and Debt Sustainability
Session III: Economic Development and Stability: The Road Ahead for Developing countries and Key Implementation Challenges
Join the conversation via #IMFonLICs
Low-Income Developing Countries Conference on Sustainable Economic Development in a Challenging Global Environment
Low-Income Developing Countries Conference on Sustainable Economic Development in a Challenging Global Environment
Panelists
Panelist: Gyan Chandra Acharya
Panelist: Zain Asher
Panelist: Abhijit Banerjee
Panelist: Paul Collier
Panelist: Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Panelist: Francisco Ferreira
Panelist: Mitsuhiro Furusawa
Mitsuhiro Furusawa assumed office as Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on March 2, 2015. He joined the IMF after a distinguished career in the Japanese government, including several senior positions in the Ministry of Finance in recent years. Immediately before coming to the Fund, he served as Special Advisor to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance. Among his recent ministry postings, Mr. Furusawa served as Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs (2013-2014), Director-General of the Financial Bureau (2012-2013), and Senior Deputy Director-General of the International Bureau (2009-2010). Mr. Furusawa’s overseas postings for the Japanese government have included IMF Executive Director (2010-2012), Minister (Finance) at the Embassy of Japan in the United States (2007-2009), and Counselor (Finance) at the Embassy of Japan in France (1997-1999). A 1979 graduate of the University of Tokyo with an LL.B. degree, Mr. Furusawa also graduated in 1983 from the École Nationale d’Administration in Paris.
(As of April 2016)
Panelist: Graciela Kaminsky
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.
Panelist: Alamine Ousmane Mey
Mr. Mey, who is a specialist in Risk Capital Lending and Leasing Operations, graduated as an Electrical Engineer from the Aachen Polytechnics University (Germany).
Panelist: Benno Ndulu
Benno Ndulu is Governor of the Central Bank of Tanzania. He served as Sector Lead Specialist with the Macroeconomic Unit for Eastern Africa of the World Bank; Research Manager, Development Economics Group and as Advisor to the Vice President and Manager of Partnership Group Africa Region of the World Bank. Following his PhD degree in economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, he taught economics and published widely on growth, adjustment, governance and trade. He also received an honorary doctorate from the ISS in The Hague in recognition of his contributions to Capacity Building and Research on Africa. He has been involved in policy advisory roles worldwide and has served in a wide range of Boards locally and internationally.
(As of April 2016)
Panelist: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development. She is a senior adviser at Lazard and chair-elect of Gavi. She was previously the Minister of Finance in Nigeria and coordinating minister for the economy. Prior to this, she was managing director of the World Bank. She is the recipient of numerous awards including honorary doctorates from some of the world’s most prestigious universities such as Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and Brown. She is chair and member of several boards and high-level global development initiatives including the UN’s Post 2015 MDGs High Level Panel, the Post-Busan Global Partnership for Development Effectiveness, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the ONE Foundation. She was educated at Harvard University and holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(As of April 2016)
Panelist: Jonathan Ostry
Panelist: Ugo Panizza
Panelist: Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In addition he is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development and he has been co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He has been engaged in policy dialogue and projects with governments and civil society around the world, both with the World Bank and as a consultant while at Harvard, including some time as adviser to Google.org. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics and in 1988 from MIT with a PhD in Economics. After finishing at MIT he joined the World Bank, where he held a number of positions. In addition he has authored over 50 papers published in refereed journals.
(As of April 2016)
Panelist: Antoinette Monsio Sayeh
Antoinette Sayeh is Director of the IMF’s African Department. She was formerly Minister of Finance in Liberia and previously worked for the World Bank for 17 years, including as Country Director for Benin, Niger, and Togo, Country Economist on Pakistan, and Afghanistan, as well as an Advisor in the Bank’s Operations Policy Vice Presidency and as Assistant to its Principal Managing Director. Before joining the Bank, she worked in economic advisory positions in Liberia’s Ministries of Finance and Planning. Ms. Sayeh graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors in Economics from Swarthmore College and a PhD in International Economic Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
(As of April 2016)
Panelist: Arvind Subramanian
Arvind Subramanian is the Chief Economic Advisor to the government of India. He was Assistant Director in the Research Department of the IMF, served at the GATT, and taught at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. In 2011, Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the top 100 global thinkers.
(As of September 2016)
Panelist: Larry Summers
Larry Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. In addition to serving as 71st Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, Dr. Summers served as Director of the White House National Economic Council in the Obama Administration, as President of Harvard University, and as the Chief Economist of the World Bank. He directs the University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Summers holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University; was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundation’s Alan Waterman Award for scientific achievement and, in 1993, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given to the most outstanding economist under 40 in the United States. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. He has published more than 150 papers in scholarly journals.
(As of April 2016)
Panelist: Siddharth Tiwari
Panelist: Min Zhu
Min Zhu is Deputy Managing Director at the IMF. Previously he served as Special Advisor to the Managing Director of the IMF. He served as a Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China. He was responsible for International Affairs, Policy Research, and Credit Information. Prior to his service at China’s Central Bank, he held various positions at the Bank of China where he served as Group Executive Vice President, responsible for finance and treasury, risk management, internal control, legal and compliance, and strategy and research. He also worked at the World Bank and taught Economics at both Johns Hopkins University and Fudan University. He received a Ph.D and an M.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University, an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a B.A. in Economics from Fudan University.
(As of April 2016)