Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund- Washington 2017 | The World Bank | 9 October 2017 | The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, United State of America

The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty eradication, economic development, and aid effectiveness. Also featured are seminars, regional briefings, press conferences, and many other events focused on the global economy, international development, and the world's financial system. This year's events will take place in Washington, DC, October 9-15, 2017.

Claudia Buch,
Vice-President, Deutsche Bundesbank

Jon Cuncliffe,
Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, Bank of England

Hyun Song Shin,
Economic Adviser and Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements

Daniel Tarullo,
Former Governor, United States Federal Reserve Board

Carolyn Wilkins,
Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

Omar Alghanim,
CEO Alghanim Industries and Chairman of Gulf Bank

Komal Dadlani,
CEO/ Co-Founder of Lab4U – Chile

Rapelang Rabana,
Founder & CEO, Rekindle Learning

Enzo Weber,
Department Head, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Professor of Economics, University of Regensburg

David Jutrsa,
Research Analyst, IMF Monetary & Capital Markets Department

Jonathan Pampolina,
Counsel, IMF Legal Department

Guillaume Chabert,
Co-Chair, Paris Club

Sonja Gibbs,
Senior Director, Institute for International Finance

Keith Mitchell,
Prime Minister of Grenada

Martyn Parker,
Chairman, Global Partnerships, Swiss Re

Alberto Torres,
Deputy undersecretary for Public Credit, Ministry of Finance, Mexico

Winnie Byanyima,
Executive Director, Oxfam International

Jim Clifton,
CEO, Gallup

Deborah Greenfield,
Deputy Director-General for Policy, International Labour Organization

Sara Horowitz,
Founder and CEO, Freelancers Union

Jeremy Johnson,
Founder and CEO, Andela

James Manyika,
Chairman, McKinsey Global Institute

Keyu Jin,
Associate Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

Paul Krugman,
Distinguished Professor of Economics, The City University of New York and Princeton University

Dani Rodrik,
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University

Angus Deaton,
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University

Larry Summers,
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University

Laura Tyson,
Professor, Business Administration and Economics, Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley

Martin Wolf,
Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

• Keynote

Dani Rodrik,
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University

James Manyika,
Chairman, McKinsey Global Institute

Mthuli Ncube,
Professor of Public Policy, University of Oxford

Carolina Sanchez,
Senior Director of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank

Gayle Smith,
President and CEO, ONE Campaign

Ricardo Hausmann,
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Harvard University

Mauricio Cardenas,
Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Colombia

Denny H. Kalyalya,
Governor, Bank of Zambia

Sahar Nasr,
Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Arab Republic of Egypt

Melanne Verveer,
Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Georgetown University

Vera Songwe,
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for AfricaINEZ MURRAY, CEO, Global Banking Alliance for Women

Tessy Casquez Baos,
Economist, IMF Statistics Department

David Lipton,
First Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Barry Eichengreen,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Eswar Prasad,
Professor, Cornell University

Joe Gebbica,
Co-Founder, AIRBNB

Jim Yong Kim,
President, World Bank Group

Philippe Le Houerou,
CEO, International Finance Corporation

Raj Batra,
President, Digital Factory USA, Siemens

Christine Lagarde,
Managing Director, IMF

Gita Gopinath,
Professor Economics, Harvard University

Sri Mulyani Indrawati,
Minister of Finance, Indonesia

Bruno Le Maire,
Minister of Economics and Finance, France

William Morneau,
Minister of Finance, Canada

Yerbolat Dossayev, Deputy Prime Minister, Kazakhstan

Jin Liqun,
President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Shi Taobin,
Vice Minister of Finance, China

Lesetja Kganyago,
Governor of the Reserve Bank of South Africa

Klaus Henderikus Wilem Knot,
President, Dutch Central Bank

Blythe Masters,
Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset

Ravi Menon,
Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore

Vijay Shekhar Sharma,
Founder of Paytm

Nicolas Shea,
Chilean EntrepreneurMITSUHIRO FURUSAWA, Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Ahmed Al-bader,
Founder and CEO, SihaTech

Ola Doudin,
Co-founder and CEO, BitOasis

Sherif Kamel,
Professor of Management, American University in Cairo

Keller Rinaudo, CEO and Co-Founder, Zipline

Erica Gerretsen,
Head of Unit - Budget Support and Public Finance Management at European Commission’s Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG-DEVCO)

Adrienne Cheasty,
Deputy Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department

William Coen,
Secretary General, The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Nestor A. Espenilla, Jr.,
Governor, Central Bank of the Philippines

Ryozo Himino,
Vice Minister of International Affairs, Japan Financial Services Agency

Sabine Lautenschlager,
Member of the Executive Board, ECB

Jose Maria Roldan,
Chairman and CEO, Spanish Banking Association

Mark Carney,
Chair, Financial Stability Board

Maureen Cropper,
Distinguished University Professor & Chair, Department of Economics, University of Maryland

Ashley Schulten,
Head of Responsible Investing, Global Fixed Income, BlackRock

Nicholas Stern,
IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics

Christine Lagarde,
Managing Director, IMF

Laura Alonso,
Secretary of Public Ethics, Transparency, and Fight Against Corruption, Argentina

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
Chair of GAVI and Former Finance Minister, Nigeria

Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University School of Law