On the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, to be held in Marrakech from October 09 to 15, 2023, the Policy Center for the New South is holding more than 20 high-level panels as part of an economic festival. This initiative will involve multiple partners of the Policy Center, including mainly the Emerging Markets Forum (EMF) and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC).
This project is part of the work carried out by the Policy Center over the last few years on the reform of development financing and the reform of the Bretton Woods institutions, analyzed from the point of view of the New South.
Following on from this work, the festival is divided into four thematic tracks:
- World economic outlook;
- Development financing and the reform of multilateral institutions;
- Public debt;
- Resilience, in particular food security and the energy transition.
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These issues are the common thread running through this festival, which brings together over 130 international economic and political experts and decision-makers from more than 40 countries, including :
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and recepient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Niale Kaba, Ivorian Minister of Planning and Development, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister for the Environment, Sustainable Development and the Congo Basin, Republic of Congo, Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Indermit Gill, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics at the World Bank Group, N. K Singh, Chairman of India's 15th Finance Commission and Co-Chairman of the G20 India Independent Expert Group, Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor and IG Patel Chair in Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Niels Annen, German State Secretary for Economic Cooperation and Development, Klaas Knot, President of De Nederlandsche Bank and Chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), Michelle Bowman, Governor, Members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FED), François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France, Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Huw Pill, Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Arend Kapteyn, Chief Economist of UBS, Erik Nielsen, Chief Economist, UniCredit Group, as well as a dozen central bank governors from the South and North, including Mamo Mihretu, Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia, Julio Velarde, Governor of the Central Bank of Peru, and Leonardo Villar, Governor of the Central Bank of Colombia.
