The 7th edition of the Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference, known as "DebtCon," will be hosted on PSE's campus (48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris) from May 29th to May 31st.
29-31 MAY | PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
DAY 1: Wednesday 29th May 2024
Ishac Diwan, Director of Research, Finance for Development Lab, Paris School of Economics
Natalie A. Jaresko, EY-Parthenon Turnaround Strategy and Restructuring
Yannis Manuelides, Elmar Advisors Limited
Debora Revoltella, Chief Economist, EIB
Andrew Powell, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Williams College
Amélie de Montchalin, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France to the OECD
Barthélemy Faye, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Manuela Francisco, Global Director Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment at the World Bank
David Ndii, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Kenya
Bright Simons, IMANI Africa
Vera Songwe, Chair and Founder of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility (LSF)
Avinash Persaud, Special Advisor on Climate Change to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank
Starla Griffin, Stanley Advisors
Frederico Gil Sander, World bank
MORNING
- 9:30-10:00 - Welcome & Coffee
- 10:00-11.30 - Opening Panel: A Tribute to Daniel Cohen
- 11:40- 13:10 - Parallel Sessions 1
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A- Debt for nature swaps (REGISTER BELOW TO ATTEND ONLINE)
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B- The challenge of reducing debt (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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C- China as a creditor (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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- 13:10-14:00 - Lunch Break
This registration link provides access to all plenary sessions and parallel sessions A. Streaming links for parallel sessions B and C are included above.
AFTERNOON
- 14:00-15:30 - Panel 2: Re-emerging after a crisis - growth perspectives and financing
- 15:40-17:10 - Parallel Sessions 2
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A- From the 2001 Default to Javier Milei: A Discussion of Argentina’s Debt History and Current Events (REGISTER BELOW TO ATTEND ONLINE)
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B- Monetary and fiscal interaction (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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C- Bilateral lending (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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- 17:10-17:30 - Coffee Break
- 17:30-19:00 - Panel 3: Debt sustainability in a warming world: new instruments?
- 19:00 - 21:00 - Cocktail & Dinner Reception at PSE
This registration link provides access to all plenary sessions and parallel sessions A. Streaming links for parallel sessions B and C are included above.
DAY 2: Thursday 30th May 2024
Laurent Clerc, Deputy Director General for Statistics, Research and International Relations
Elena Duggar, Moody's Chief Credit Officer for the Americas
Jose Antonio Gonzalez-Anaya, Former Minister of Finance of Mexico
Ernest Addison, Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana
Martin Guzman, Professor, Columbia University SIPA
Ishac Diwan, Director of Research, Finance for Development Lab, Paris School of Economics
MORNING
- 8:00-9:30 - Emerging scholars' session (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
- 9:40-11:10 - Parallel Sessions 3
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A- Human rights and debt (REGISTER BELOW TO ATTEND ONLINE)
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B- State contingent debt instruments (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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C- Dealing with diverse creditors (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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- 11:10-11:30 - Coffee Break
- 11:30-13:00 - Parallel Sessions 4
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A- Book presentation: “The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy.” (REGISTER BELOW TO ATTEND ONLINE)
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B- Climate (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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C- Enforcement (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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- 13:00-13:45 - Lunch Break
This registration link provides access to all plenary sessions and parallel sessions A. Streaming links for parallel sessions B and C are included above.
AFTERNOON
- BANQUE DE FRANCE SESSIONS
- 14:30-16:00 - Panel 4: Solvency and liquidity at high nominal rates
- 16:30-17:30 - In conversation with Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - A dialogue with Ugo Panizza (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Odile Renaud Basso, EBRD
Ugo Panizza, Geneva Graduate Institute
DAY 3: Friday 31st May 2024
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Sean Hagan, Georgetown/Sciences Po
Brad Setser, Council on Foreign Relations
Mark Flanagan, Deputy Director, SPR, IMF
William Roos, Director of Multilateral Affairs and Development, Vice-president of the Club de Paris
Masitala Mushinga, Debt Management Office Director, Ministry of Finance of Zambia
Michel Aubenas, Blackrock
Benoît Coeuré, President of the Autorité de la concurrence, President of the CEPREMAP
Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Bruegel
Layna Mosley, Princeton University
Reza Baqir, Alvarez & Marsal and Harvard
Ye Yu, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
Karina Patricio, Assistant professor, University of Leeds
Anna Gelpern, Georgetown University Law Center and PIIE
Shahin Vallée, German Council of Foreign Relations
Armand Zorn, Member of the German Parliament
Hinjat Shamil, Senior Reform Advisor - Ministry of Finance of Ethiopia
MORNING
- 8:00-9:30 - Welcome & Coffee
- 8:00 - 9:30 - Parallel Sessions 5
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A- Local currency financing
(REGISTER BELOW TO ATTEND ONLINE)
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B- Coordination and comparability in restructurings (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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C- Debt and taxes
(LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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- 9:40-11:10 - Panel 6: The Need for a Coordinated Restructuring Framework
- 11:10-11:30 - Coffee Break
- 11:30-13:00 - Parallel Sessions 6
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A- The politics and economics of sustainability (REGISTER BELOW TO ATTEND ONLINE)
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B- Domestic debt and defaults (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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C- Debt restructuring history (LINK TO LIVE STREAM)
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- 13:00-14:00 - Lunch Break
This registration link provides access to all plenary sessions and parallel sessions A. Streaming links for parallel sessions B and C are included above.
AFTERNOON
- 14:00-15:30 - Closing Panel, 7: Geopolitics of
Sovereign Debt - 15:30-16:00 - Closing Session
