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Location: Cedar Hall HQ1-1-660
OVERVIEW
The Global Public Finance Partnership (GPFP) is the IMF’s main vehicle for providing fiscal capacity development (CD) to emerging and developing economies, with a focus on LICs & FCS. The GPFP aims to foster strong revenue mobilization policies, well-functioning revenue administrations, effective expenditure policies, and sound public financial management practices, while integrating macro-relevant themes such as climate change, gender & inclusion, and GovTech for digitalizing fiscal operations. The 2024 Annual Meetings event will provide an update on the GPFP implementation and bring together our partners and beneficiaries of this important initiative.
2024 Spring Meetings GPFP visibility event: Unveiling the Global Public Finance Partnership: First Partners, First Projects
SPEAKERS
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Gita Gopinath First Deputy Managing Director, IMF |
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Gita Gopinath is the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as of January 21, 2022. In that role she oversees the work of staff, represents the Fund at multilateral forums, maintains high-level contacts with member governments and Board members, the media, and other institutions, leads the Fund’s work on surveillance and related policies, and oversees research and flagship publications. Ms. Gopinath previously served as the Chief Economist of the Fund from 2019-22. Prior to joining the IMF, Ms. Gopinath was the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University’s economics department (2005-22) and before that she was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business (2001-05). Ms. Gopinath received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2001, after earning a B.A. from Lady Shri Ram College and M.A. degrees from Delhi School of Economics and the University of Washington.
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Vitor Gaspar Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF |
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Vitor Gaspar is Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF. He joined in 2014. Before that, he was Portuguese Minister of State and Finance from 2011–13 and has held various positions in European and Portuguese institutions, including head of BEPA at the European Commission, director-general of research at the European Central Bank, director of Economic Studies and Statistics at the Central Bank of Portugal, and Director of Economic Studies at the Portuguese Ministry of Finance. Mr. Gaspar holds a Ph.D. and a post-doctoral agregado in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa; he graduated from Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
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Franck Bousquet Deputy Director, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF |
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Franck Bousquet is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Capacity Development. Previously, Franck was the deputy director coordinating the Fund’s engagement with Fragile and Conflict-affected States (FCS). Notably, Franck led the preparation of the IMF FCS Strategy approved by the Board in March 2022. Before joining the IMF, he was the senior director of the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV) Group where he led the development of the Bank’s first FCV Strategy. In this role, he mobilized expertise and supported teams across the Bank to design and implement programs in collaboration with humanitarian-development-peace partners, including the implementation of the $25 billion International Development Association financing package for the poorest countries. Franck previously held roles in the public and private sectors focused on sustainable development, finance and capital markets. He holds an MBA with a specialization in finance from Columbia Business School and a graduate diploma in engineering from France.
