Moderator:
Siddharth Tiwari, IFF Vice President; Former Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific, BIS
Panel Speakers:
Joaquim Levy, Former Finance Minister of Brazil, Former Managing Director &CFO of World Bank Group
Moderator:
LIN Jianhai, IFF Executive Vice President, Former Secretary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Speakers:
Steven Alan Barnett, IMF Senior Resident Representative in China
WANG Tao, Managing Director, Chief China Economist, Head of Asia Economic Research, UBS Investment Bank
Dan Wang, Chief Economist Hang Seng Bank (China)
Moderator:
Gerry Rice, Former Director of the Communications Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank
Speaker:
Ayhan Kose, Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Prospects Group, World Bank Group
This 90-minute conference in Marrakesh, Morocco is co-organized by the International Finance Forum (IFF), the Bretton Woods Committee (BWC), and the Center for Global Development (CGD), to be hosted by the IMF.
(September 9, 2022 Beijing) - Innovation and globalization will continue to drive Asian growth in the coming years despite challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and current recession, panelists said on Thursday at the 24th Academic Seminar of the International Finance Forum (IFF).
The 23rd IFF Academic Conference themed on “the Improvement and Optimization of the Standards System of the Green Finance” was held in Beijing on July 15, 2022. Deputy Director of the International Department of the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors Ren Qing delivered the keynote speech on Issues of Sustainable Finance in Cross-border financing and Finance opening-up”. Experts from PWC, Bank of China and China Central Depository & Clearing Co. Ltd also delivered speeches and participated in the related discussions.
Wang Jinnan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, delivered a keynote speech at the 22nd IFF Academic Conference held on June 19, 2022, in Beijing. Wang said carbon neutrality is an extensive and profound economic and social systemic change, a redistribution and rearrangement of competitiveness and productivity in the world. He analyzed the challenges that need to be addressed in the process from the perspective of path selection and policies for achieving the dual carbon goal.
Themed on SDR and the Reform of the International Monetary System, the 21st IFF Academic Conference was co-organized by IFF and the International Monetary Institute (IMI) on May 31, 2022. Lin Jianhai, IFF Vice-president and former secretary of the IMF and the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee and Zhang Liqing, former Dean of School of Finance at Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), delivered keynote speeches at the conference on SDR and the Internationalization of the RMB.
Themed on Trend and Challenges in Education for Carbon Neutrality, the 20th IFF Academic Conference was held in Beijing on May 29. Experts including Liu Yanhua, , former deputy minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology and State Council counselor, Zhu Yongxin, deputy secretary-general of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC and vice president of Chinese Society of Education (CSE), Pan Jiahua, member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zhao Zhongxiu, an academician at the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and President Shandong University of Finance and Economics and Wang Yuanfeng, member of the IFF Academic Committee participated in the conference.
Former Deputy Commissioner of the State Taxation Administration Xu Shanda delivered a keynote speech at the 19th IFF Academic Conference on Tax Reform and Achieving Common Prosperity on February 26, 2022， in Beijing. Wang Yuanfeng, a member of the IFF Academic Committee, pointed out in his welcome speech that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic increased uncertainties in the world economy. Achieving common prosperity in China is important but challenging, he said.
He Keng, former deputy director of the Finance and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress and former deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, introduced the messages of the Central Economic Work Conference and delivered the keynote speech and outlook for 2022 at the 18th IFF Academic Conference held on December 28, 2021. Participants and guests held discussions on topics including growth points of 2022, key areas of financial risks, technology innovation and creativity and tax reform.
August 25 marked the first National Low Carbon Day after China announced its Carbon Peak and Neutrality Goals. To echo the theme of the National Low Carbon Day, the IFF invited experts, policymakers, academicians and representatives from all over the world and domestic institutions to the I7th IFF Academic conference in December for discussions on green cities, energy saving and carbon emissions on August 25, 2021.
