2023 Annual Meetings Speakers


 

Kristalina Georgieva

Managing Director, IMF

Ajay Banga

President,
World Bank Group

Gita Gopinath

First Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Bo Li

Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Antoinette Sayeh
Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Kenji Okamura
Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Nadia Fettah
Minister of Economy and FinanceMorocco
 

Pablo Hemandex de Cos

Governor of the Bank of Spain

 

Ghita Mezzour

Minister in charge of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, Morocco

Sir Dany Alexander

Vice President for Policy and Strategy

Mohammed Al-Jadaan

Minister of Finance, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Situmbeko Musokotwane

Minister of Finance and National Planning for the Republic of Zambia

 

Jihad Azour

Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department

Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari

Minister of Finance, Qatar

 

Shaktikanta Das

Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Nigel Clarke

Minister of Finance and Public Service of Jamaica

 

Sheku A. F. Bangura

Minister of Finance

Sierra Leone

Masood Ahmed

President of the Center for Global Development

 

Buah Saidy
Governor, Central Bank of The Gambia

Dr. Ibrahim Stevens
Acting Governor, Bank of Sierra Leone

 

Luc Bagur

Director for Sustainable Development Policy and Coordination, DG for International Partnerships

European Commission

Ravi Agrawal

Editor in chief

Foreign Policy

Moses Dinekere Pelaelo
Governor of the Bank of Botswana

Abebe Aemro Selassie
Director of the African Department

 

Suleimane Seidi

Minister of Economy and Finance of Guinea Bissau

Joselito R. Basilio

Undersecretary, Department of Budget and Management, Philippines

Nogui Acosta Jaén

Minister of Finance, Costa Rica

Hekuran Murati

Minister of Finance, Kosovo

 

Njuguna Ndung’u

Cabinet Secretary of National Treasury & Economic Planning, Kenya

Rania Al Mashat

Minister of International Cooperation
Egypt

Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Director General World Trade Organisation (WTO)

Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank

 

Andrea Shalal
Reuters

Reports on the White House, global trade, and economics

Marco Buti

Chief of Staff, Commissioner for the Economy

European Commission


Caroline Abel

Governor, Central bank of Seychelles

Mark Carney

Co-Chair for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ),UN


Jason Furman
Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy Harvard Kennedy School(HKS)

Fabio Panetta
Member of the Executive Board, the European Central Bank

Axel Weber

President of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfur
 

Vera Songwe

Nonresident senior fellow in the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution

Ory Okolloh

Partner at Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures

Lamia Tazi

Chairwoman of the Board and CEO of Sothema

Mo Abudu

CEO of EbonyLife Media

Tim Gould

Chief Energy Economist

 

John Lenahan
 Delivery Manager at the Environmental Systems Research Institute

Lubna Bouza
Editor in Chief – Business News and Presenter at Sky News Arabia TV based in Abu Dhabi, UA

 

Amanda Walker

Journalist, IMF Today

Miroslav Delaporte
Senior Advisor to the Executive Director, World Bank

Alvaro Lario

President of the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Mostafa Terrab

Chairman and CEO of OCP Group

Kevin Chika Urama

Chief Economist/Vice President for Economic Governance & Knowledge Management, (AfDB)

Charled Li

Founder and Chairman of Micro Connect

 

Godfrey Mutizwa

 Editor of CNBC Africa

James Stewart

CTO, Public Digital, UK

 

Kofi Dadzie

Consultant/Advisor, Technology Strategy & Risk Governance

Kais Mejri

General Director of Innovation & Technology, Tunisia

Doron Avni

Vice President of Government Affairs, Google

Sopnendu Mohanty

Chief Fintech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore

Fabian Schar

Professor for Blockchain and FinTech, University of Base


Nizar Baraka

Minister for Equipment and Water

 

Sunil Sabharwal

President, Payments International


Alexandre Fleury

Co-Head of Global Banking & Investor Solutions, Société Générale

Amer Bisat

Managing Director, Blackrock

Monica Malik

Chief Economist, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Joumana Bercetche

Anchor CNBC

Magdalena Rzeczkowska

Minister of Finance of Poland

H.E. Abdellatif Jouahr

Governor of Bank Al-Maghrib


Raj Kumar

President & Editor-in-Chief Devex

 

H.E Dr. Abdulrahman A.Al Hamidy

Director General Chairman of the Board of the Arab Monetary Fund “AMF”


Alfred Hannig

Executive Director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)

Mandla Duber

Filmmaker

Brahim El Mazned

Culture Expert

Daniel Giorev

Head of Unit in charge of Sustainable Development Policy and Global Partnerships with UN and IFIs ,European Commission 

Loreto Mbele

International broadcaster, TV personality, and Media consultant Africa

Nancy Gathungu

Kenya Auditor General

Mario Marcel

Economist

University of Chile

 

Marlene Ngoyi
CEO of the Fund for Export Development in Africat 

Hannah O'leary
Head of the African Art at Sotheby’

Kampeta Sayinzoga

Rwanda Development Bank

Daniel Yergin

 

Vice Chairman 

S&P Global 

 

Raghuram Rajan

Professor of Finance

 University of Chicago’s Booth School

Mo Ibrahim

 Founder and Chair

 Mo Ibrahim Foundation

 

Audu Maikori
Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Chocolate City Group

Lanre da Silva
Fashion designer

Dominique Desruelle

Director, Institute for Capacity Development 

Anna Gelpern

Professor of Law and International Finance at Georgetown Law

Mateusz Morawiecki

Polish politician

Tom Keene

Co-Anchor Bloomberg Surveillance

 

Mina Al-Oraibi

Editor in Chief of The National

Vera Daves de Sousa

 

Lesetja Kganyago

Governor of the SARB

Guillermo Ortiz

Senior Advisor and Board Member of BTG Pactual

 

 

Ursula Owusu-Ekuful
Minister for communications and Digitalization of Ghana

 

 

Nigel Chalk

Acting Director of the Western Hemisphere Department

IMF

Krishna Srinivasan

Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF

 

Alfred Kammer

Director, European Department, IMF

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu

Director, Strategy, Policy and Review Department, IMF

 

Jihad Azour

Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF

Sabina Bhatia
Deputy Secretary, Secretary's Department, IMF

Herve Tourpe

Unit Chief, Information Technology Department, IMF

Pierrette Mahoro Mastel

AI Researcher

 



Jim Tebrake
Deputy Director, Statistics Department, IMF 

Abdur Rouf Talukder
Governor, Bangladesh Bank

Tholang Mathopa
Founder of Leriba.ai, AI & Intelligent Automation Specialist

Alessandra Alfieri
Assistant Director, Statistics Department, IMF 

Li Tang

Senior Computational Economics Expert, Information Technology Department, IMF

Yunhui Zhao

Economist, Strategy Policy and Review Department, IMF


Oana Croitoru
Division Chief, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF

Tobias Adrian

IMF Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department

Chrystia Freeland

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Canada IMF

Christan Lindnere

Minister of Finance, Germany

 

Mohamed Maait

Minister of Finance, Egypt

Martin Wolf

Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times

 

Rodrigo Valdes

Director of the Western Hemisphere Department, IMF

Owen Smith

Lead Economist for West Africa

World Bank

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Gareth Anderson

Middle East and Central Asia Department

IMF

Jiayi Ma

Middle East and Central Asia Department

IMF

 

Arif Ismail

Deputy Division Chief in the Payments and Infrastructure Division

IMF

Yan Liu

Deputy General Counsel of the International Monetary Fund

 

Amgad Hegazy

Senior Economist, Institute of Capacity Development

IMF

Noreyana Fernando

External Affairs, Finance
World Bank

 

Fernanda Brollo

Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department

IMF

Patrick Blagrave

Macroeconomics Advisor. IMF’s Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC)


Mercedes Garcia

Division Chief, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF

Gerardo Una

Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

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Giacomo Magistretti

Asia and Pacific Department

IMF

Ivan Pavletic

Head of the Multilateral Cooperation section, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Nicoletta Feruglio

Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department

IMF

Bryn Battersby

Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department

IMF

 

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Andrés Fernández

Monetary and Capital Markets Department

IMF

Yunhui Zhao
Economist, Strategy Policy and Review Department, IMF

 

Ben Kett

Strategy, Policy, and Review Department

IMF

Sailendra Pattanayak

Deputy Division Chief, Fiscal Affairs Department

IMF

Carlos Van Hombeeck

Research Department

IMF

Jeong (Daniel) Lee

Middle East and Central Asia Department

IMF

Samir Jahan

Fiscal Affairs Department

IMF

Lev Ratnovski

European Department

IMF

 

Chuku Chuku

Strategy Policy and Review Department

IMF

 Julia Estefania

Asia and Pacific Department

  IMF

 

   

Concha Verdugo Yepes

African Department, IMF

Alessandra Sozzi

Statistics Department

IMF