Is the IMF still relevant

Source: Exec Digital USA

Date :9/21/2007 1:30:15 PM

In October 2007, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is scheduled to assume the helm of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Panelists at this seminar will discuss what Strauss-Kahn’s priorities should be to increase the IMF’s relevance. Should the IMF play a more significant role as umpire in today’s exchange rate disputes? How might the IMF give a greater voice to countries like China whose role in the international financial system has increased? Should the IMF be streamlined to bring its expenditures more in line with its dwindling income?

Timothy D. Adams, former U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs; Andrew Crockett, former head of the Bank for International Settlement; Allan H. Meltzer, former chairman of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission; Edwin M. Truman, former U.S. assistant treasury secretary; and J. Onno De Beaufort Wijnholds, current European Central Bank representative at the IMF will answer these and other questions. Desmond Lachman of AEI will moderate.

1:45 p.m.

Registration

2:00

Panelists:

Timothy D. Adams, The Lindsey Group

Andrew Crockett, JP Morgan

Allan H. Meltzer, AEI

Edwin M. Truman, Peterson Institute for International Economics

J. Onno De Beaufort Wijnholds, European Central Bank

Moderator:

Desmond Lachman, AEI

4:00

Adjournment