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Ahmed, Masood — President Emeritus, Center for Global Development

Aiyar, Shekhar — Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER

Arkhurst, Samuel — Coordinating Director, Ministry of Finance of Ghana

Sessions:

Life After Debt

Azour, Jihad — Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF

Barrett, Steven — Professor of Economics, HKU

Sessions:

Global Macro Sessions

 

Bowman, Michelle W. — Vice Chair for Supervision, Federal Reserve; Chair, FSB Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation

Breeden, Sara — Deputy Governor, Bank of England

Sessions:

Digital Money

Brodjonegoro, Bambang — Dean and CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute

Sessions:

Middle-Income Trap

 

Castelli, Massimiliano — Head, Global Sovereign Markets Strategy and Advice, UBS Asset Management

Cichocka, Beata — Lead Author, CGD China & Multilaterals Research

Das, Arnab — Founder Geo logica Strategies

Dombret, Andreas — Advisor, Oliver Wyman

El Aweini, Mahmoud — Secretary General, Ministry of Finance of the Sultanate of Oman

Forbes, Kristin — Professor of Economics, MIT

Francisco, Manuela — World Bank Group Global Director, Fiscal Policy and Growth

Sessions:

Global Macro Sessions

 

Giraldo, Carlos — Chief Economist FLAR

Gupta, Poonam — Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Harischandra, P. K. G. — Assistant Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka; Secretary to the Monetary Policy Board

Sessions:

Life After Debt

Ishac, Diwan — Research Director, FDL

Sessions:

Life After Debt

Jung, Byungsik — Deputy Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Kai, Li — Chair Professor of Finance, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University

Kapteyn, Arend — Global Chief Economist, UBS

Kelimbetov, Kairat — Member of the Board of Directors, Freedom Holding Corp.; Former Governor, National Bank of Kazakhstan

Knot, Klaas — Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Kocher, Martin — Governor, Austrian National Bank

Kose, Ayhan — Deputy Chief Economist, World Bank

London, Mélina — Senior Economist, FDL

Sessions:

Life After Debt

Maechler, Andrea M. — Deputy General Manager, BIS

Sessions:

Digital Money

Mateos Y Lagos, Isabelle — Chief Economist, BNP Paribas

McCormack, Andrew — CEO, Nexus Payment

Sessions:

Digital Money

Mitchell, Ian — Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Nakavachara, Voraprapa — Associate Professor of Economics, Chulalongkorn University

Pandey, Ajay Bhushan — Vice President for Investment Solutions AIIB

Park, Cynyoung, Executive Director, The SEACEN Center

Sessions:

Digital Money

Pérez-Tasso, Javier — CEO, Swift

Sessions:

Digital Money

Pettis, Michael — Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Sessions:

Global Macro Sessions

 

Pill, Huw — Chief Economist and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England

Pingle, Jonathan — US Chief Economist, UBS

Quah, Danny — Professor, National University of Singapore

Reiner, Martin — Executive Director, National Bank of Slovakia

Revoltella, Debora — Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Rey, Helène — Economic Advisor, BIS

Sessions:

Global Macro Sessions

 

Roubini, Nouriel — Emeritus Professor of Economics, NYU

Samson, Paul — President, CIGI

Schularick, Moritz — President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Setser, Brad — Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Šimkus, Gediminas — Chairman of the Board, Bank of Lithuania; Member, ECB Governing Council

Sitharaman, Nirmala — Finance Minister, India

Strauch, Rolf — Chief Economist and Management Board Member, European Stability Mechanism (ESM)

Suzman, Mark — CEO, Gates Foundation

Sessions:

Life After Debt

Tekalign, Eyob — Governor, National Bank of Ethiopia

Sessions:

Life After Debt

Ulatov, Sergey — EFSD Chief Economist

Uzan, Marc — Executive Director and Founder, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC)

Vallée, Shahin — Senior Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations

Vinokurov, Evgeny — Chief Economist, EDB

Wang, Tao — Senior Adviser, UBS

Weber, Axel — President, Center for Financial Studies

Weh, Dominik — Partner, Oliver Wyman

Wolf, Martin — Economics Editor, The Financial Times

Sessions:

Global Macro Sessions

 

Wu, Jason — Assistant Director Global Market Analysis, IMF

Zhu, Haibin — Executive Director, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Sessions:

Global Macro Sessions

 

Zigman, Ante — Governor, Central Bank of Croatia

Sessions:

Digital Money