The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are convening in Washington D.C. this week, with the main ministerial meetings and events taking place April 17-19 and other events and activities happening from April 15-20th. According to the Financial Times, “policymakers at the World Bank and IMF spring meetings this week will grapple over more funds for debt-strapped nations and development goals as global crises stretch aid budgets.”
Faculty experts at the George Washington University are available to offer insight, analysis and commentary on the upcoming meetings. If you would like to speak with an expert, please contact GW Senior Media Relations Specialist Cate Douglass at [email protected].
Danny Leipziger is a Professor of Practice of International Business and managing director of The Growth Dialogue at GW. Leipziger, a former vice president of the World Bank, headed the Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender and economic empowerment, and public sector management and governance. Leipziger’s areas of expertise include development economics, international economic policy, and macro and economic growth.
Scheherazade Rehman is the director of the European Union Research Center and a professor of international finance, business, and a professor of international affairs at GW. Rehman has advised a number of institutions including The World Bank, IMF, OPIC, USAID, U.S. State Department, and Central Banks and Finance Ministers of Turkey, Nigeria, Peru, Mongolia, Hungary, Poland, Russia and China. Her areas of expertise include international finance, global and emerging financial markets, central banking, privatization and financial sector development, Middle East economics and Islamic finance, and the European Union. Rehman will be attending the meetings this week.
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