Debt Management Facility Stakeholders' Forum 2022 | The World Bank | 14 March 2022 | Virtual Event

Debt burdens were surging in many developing countries even before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Today, increased funding needs, rising funding costs, price pressures, and stretched asset valuations are putting extra pressure on debt managers. Climate-related risks pose an increasing danger to people’s lives and public finance, requiring debt managers to take a closer look at Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) factors while meeting funding needs. Under the circumstances, many countries will need to strengthen their debt-management capacity and enhance debt transparency.

This 12th Forum, Navigating Debt: Meeting Tomorrow’s Funding Needs, will explore how this can be done. The forum, organized by the World Bank. It will set the scene for high-level discussions on potential debt-management strategies in a period of high and persistent debt burdens for many low- and middle-income countries. It will also examine the use of innovative financing instruments in debt management and highlight the importance of legal frameworks for sound debt management and debt transparency.

2022 Speakers

MODERATOR:

Mari E. Pangestu
Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank Group

Roger Nord
Deputy Director, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF and DMF Co-Chair

Marcello Estevão
Global Director, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment, World Bank Group and DMF Co-Chair

SPEAKERS:

Carmen Reinhart
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank Group

Ceyla Pazarbaşıoğlu
Director, Strategy, Policy, and Review, IMF

Lupin Rahman
Executive Vice President, PIMCO

Claudia Sanhueza
Vice Minister of Finance, Chile

Ma Jun
China’s representative, G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group

Rahul Ghosh
Managing Director - Environmental, Social & Governance, Moody's

Anna Gelpern
Anne Fleming Research Professor, Georgetown Law

Çiğdem Aslan
Lead Debt Specialist, World Bank Group

Haron Sirima
Director General of DMO, Kenya

Irakli Katcharava
Acting Head of Public Debt Management Department, Georgia