DIARY - Spring 2010 IMF/World Bank meetings

Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe
are in Washington this week for the semiannual meetings of the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank on Saturday and
Sunday, April 24 and 25.

Finance officials from the Group of 20 meet on Friday, and
the International Monetary and Financial Committee, which is
the IMF's steering committee, meet on Saturday.

Following is a schedule of the top events. All times listed
are in Washington local time/GMT.

2010 IMF/WORLD BANK FALL MEETINGS AND RELATED EVENTS DIARY

Thursday, April 22

0900/1300 - Press briefing: IMF Managing Director Dominique
Strauss-Kahn

1145/1545 - Press briefing: World Bank President Robert
Zoellick.

1445/1845 - G-24 meeting.

1445/1845 - Bertelsmann Foundation conference panel,
"Reformatting the Global Economy: Should the G-20 be the New
Platform for World Governance?" with Canada Finance Minister
Jim Flaherty; Robert Hormats, undersecretary of State for
Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs; Shaikh Ahmed bin
Mohammed Al Khalifa, Kingdom of Bahrain finance minister;
(INVITED) Mexico Finance Minister Ernesto Cordero.

1600/2000 - Bertelsmann Foundation conference panel, "The
Women's Perspective: a Missed Opportunity in Crisis?" with
Lithuania Finance Minister Ingrida Simonyte and (INVITED) U.S.
Rep. Jane Harman.

1700/2100 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria speaks on
"Climate Change and Competitiveness" at an event hosted by the
John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

1730/2130 - Press briefing: G-24 Chairman.

1730/2130 - French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde
participates in "The New Rules: Reform in Transatlantic
Financial Markets" discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council.

Friday, April 23

0930/1330 to 1630/2030 - G-20 meeting of Finance Ministers
and Central Bank Governors.

1000/1400 - Press Briefing: Global Monitoring Report 2010:
with Murilo Portugal, IMF deputy managing director; Justin Lin,
World Bank chief economist and snr. VP, Development Economics;
Hugh Bredenkamp, IMF deputy director, Strategy Policy and
Review Department; Delfin Go, World Bank lead economist and
lead author, Global Monitoring Report.

1030/1430 - Roundable: Water and Sanitation: A call for
urgent action on sanitation and water. World Bank Managing
Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; His Royal Highness
Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, Chair UN Secretary's
Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation; Minister of Uganda
Maria Mutagamba; IFC Executive Vice President Lars Thunnell.

1200/1600 - Press Briefing: Europe and Central Asia
Economic Update; Philippe Le Houerou, regional vice president
for Europe and Central Asia, and Indermit Gill, chief economist
for Europe and Central Asia Region.

1400/1800 - Round Table Discussion: LAC (Latin America and
the Caribbean) Beyond the Crisis: Blessed or Cursed by
Commodity Wealth? Introductions by Pamela Cox, World Bank vice
president LAC; presented by Augusto de la Torre, World Bank
chief economist for LAC; panelists: Andres Velasco, Chile
former minister of Finance; Pedro Sampaio Malan, chairman,
International Advisory Board; Itau Unibanco and Ricardo
Hausmann, director, Center for International Development at
Harvard University.

1400/1800 - Press briefing; Sub-Saharan Africa economic
outlook, with Antoinette Sayeh, IMF Africa Department
director.

1630/2030 - Roundtable Discussion: Fiscal Strategies After
the Global Crisis, chaired by Carlo Cottarelli, Fiscal Affairs
Department director; with Servaas Deroose, acting deputy
director general, European Commission; Pier-Carlo Padoan,
deputy secretary general, OECD; Douglas Elmendorf, director,
U.S. Congressional Budget Office; David Romer, University of
California, Berkeley and Research Department, IMF; Takatoshi
Ito, University of Tokyo.

1720/2120 - (TENTATIVE) - G-20 press briefing by Minister
of Strategy and Finance of Korea Yoon Jeung-Hyun and Finance
Minister of Canada Jim Flaherty.

1800/2200 - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner holds news
conference.

1930/2330 - International Monetary and Financial Committee
(IMFC) working dinner.

Saturday, April 24

0800/1200 - International Monetary and Financial Committee
(IMFC) meeting.

0915/1315 - Press Briefing: Haiti and the Haiti
Reconstruction Fund; introduced by Pamela Cox, World Bank vice
president for LAC; presented by Yvonne Tsikata, World Bank
country director for the Caribbean and Alexandre Abrantes,
World Bank special envoy to Haiti.

1000/1400 - Press briefing: Asia and Pacific by Anoop
Singh, IMF Asia and Pacific Department director.

1100/1500 - Press briefing: African Finance Ministers.

1200/1600 - Press Briefing: Middle East and North America.

1230/1630 - Press briefing: Western Hemisphere, Nicolas
Eizaguirre, IMF Western Hemisphere Department director.

1400/1800 - Roundtable: Scaling Up Nutrition: Canada,
Japan, the United States, through the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID), and the World Bank co-host
discussion on investing in nutrition and food security and the
importance of country ownership in making headway on
development goals.

TIME TBA - Press briefing: IMFC Chair, Minister Youssef
Boutros-Ghali, and IMF Managing Director Dominique
Strauss-Kahn.

Sunday, April 25

0800/1200 - Development Committee meeting.

TIME TBA - Press briefing: Development Committee Chair
Minister Ahmed Al Khalifa, World Bank President Robert
Zoellick, and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

1100/1500 - Institute for International Finance's Emerging
Markets Advisory Council holds press conference on findings of
its working group on regulatory reform. Roberto Setubal,
president & CEO of Ita Unibanco Banco Multiplo S/A & president
& CEO of Banco Ita S/A - Brazil; Ibrahim Dabdoub, group chief
executive officer, National Bank of Kuwait, S.A.K.; and Jorge
Londono Saldarriaga, president and CEO, Bancolombia,
participate.

Monday, April 26

1230/1630 - Duvvuri Subbarao, governor of the Reserve Bank
of India, speaks on India's economic prospects and the
challenges of monetary and exchange rate management in a
dynamic emerging economy.

NEW YORK - Chatham House and the Foreign Policy Association
"Building a New Financial Order" Global Financial Forum.

-- 0900/1300 - "Session One: "Rebalancing the Global
Economy: Overview" with French Finance Minister Christine
Lagarde

-- 1050/1450 - "Session Two: Restructuring the Financial
Sector" with Jaime Caruana, general manager, Bank for
International Settlements

-- 1430/1830 - "Session Three: Restoring Financial
Stability" with Charles Collyns, Treasury assistant secretary
for International Affairs; Fabrizio Saccomanni, director
general, Banca d'Italia; and Sean Hagan, general counsel and
director, IMF Legal Department

1300/1700 - NEW YORK - European Central Bank President
Jean-Claude Trichet speaks on "Global Governance Today" at the
Council on Foreign Relations.