Spring Meetings

Marc Uzan
Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

Marc Uzan is the Executive Director and founder of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, a not-for profit organization established in 1994 that focuses on addressing issues related to the international financial architecture.

Jihad Azour
Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF

Mr. Jihad Azour is the Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund where he oversees the Fund’s work in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Caucasus.

Mr. Azour served as Lebanon’s Finance Minister in 2005-08, during which time he coordinated the implementation of important reforms, including modernizing the country’s tax and customs systems. Before and since his time as finance minister, he held a wide range of positions in the private sector, including McKinsey and Booz and Co. where he was a Vice-President and Senior Executive Advisor. Prior to joining the IMF in March 2017, he was a Managing Partner at investment firm Inventis Partners.

Mr. Azour holds a PhD in International Finance and a post-graduate degree in International Economics and Finance, both from the  Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He also did research on emerging economies and their integration into the global economy as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard. Mr. Azour has published several books and articles on economic and financial issues and taught extensively.

Muhammad Aurangzeb
Minister for Finance and Revenue of Pakistan

Mr. Muhammad Aurangzeb assumed the role of Minister responsible for Finance and Revenue in the Federal cabinet of the Government of Pakistan in March 2024.

Prior to this responsibility, Mr. Aurangzeb had been a successful international career banker for over 35 years having served most recently at Pakistan’s largest systemically important bank (HBL) as President & CEO.  

Before returning to Pakistan in April 2018 to lead HBL, Mr. Aurangzeb was the CEO of JP Morgan’s Global Corporate Bank for the Asia Pacific region. Previously, he held senior management roles at other global financial institutions including ABN AMRO, RBS, and Citibank, based in New York, Amsterdam, and Singapore.

Mr. Aurangzeb continues to be the only Pakistani to be invited in 2018 to the exclusive membership of the Global CEO Council organized by WSJ / DowJones group. He has also served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Banks Association, Chairman of the Pakistan Business Council, and Council Member at the Institute of Bankers Pakistan.

Mr. Aurangzeb received his BS and MBA degrees from The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania).

Beata Javorcik
Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Beata Javorcik is Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. She is on leave from the University of Oxford, where she is the first woman to hold a Statutory Professorship in Economics. She is also a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and the Director of the International Trade Programme at the CEPR in London. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee at ifo Institute, University of Munich, as well as of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague. Before taking up her position at Oxford, she worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, where she focused on research, lending operations and policy advice. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale and a B.A. in Economics (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Rochester.

Elena Duggar
Moody’s Chief Credit Officer – Americas; Managing Director in the Credit Strategy & Guidance team

Elena Duggar is Moody’s Chief Credit Officer for the Americas, and a Managing Director in the Credit Strategy & Guidance team. Elena is the Chair of Moody’s North America Credit Council and a member of Moody’s Global Credit Council and Moody’s Macroeconomic Board.

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