The Future of the World Bank and the IMF

THU | SEP 27 | MST | 4PM
Panel: What Kind of World Bank in the 21st Century?
Nancy Birdsall, President, The Center for Global Development; Ishrat Husain, formerly Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan; Robert Wade, London School
of Economics. Chair: Jerry Caprio

THU | SEP 27 | MST | 8PM
Keynote Address: Daron Acemoglu, MIT, “Why Nations Fail”

FRI | SEP 28 | MST | 8:30AM
Panel: The Global Financial Architecture and Financial Stability: What Works?
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University; Atish R. Ghosh, International Monetary Fund; James Hanson, formerly World Bank; and Garry Schinasi, formerly IMF.
Chair: Peter Montiel

FRI | SEP 28 | MST | 9:45AM
Panel: The Role of a Lender of Last Resort
Philip Lane, Trinity College (Dublin); Guillermo Ortiz, President Banorte and former Governor, Banco Central de Mexico; Ted Truman, The Peterson Institute for International Economics and Williams College.
Chair: Ken Kuttner.

FRI | SEP 28 | MST | 11:40AM
Panel: The Role of Research in the Bank and the Fund
Olivier Blanchard, IMF; Michael Kremer, Harvard University; Luis Serven, The World Bank.
Chair: Peter Pedroni.

FRI | SEP 28 | MST | 1:45PM
Panel: Environment and Development?
Ken Chomitz, The World Bank and Andrew Steer, President, World Resources Institute, formerly Special Envoy for Climate Change, The World Bank.
Chair: Sarah Jacobson.

FRI | SEP 28 | MST | 3PM
Panel: The Rise of Emerging Markets and the IFIs
Uri Dadush, The Carnegie Foundation and Arvind Panagariya, Cornell University.
Chair: Ashok Rai.