8:00 a.m. 

Press Credentials Pick-Up Opens

World Bank H Building
600 19th Street NW

Technicians Set-Up
Arrangements need to be made in advance with the IMF's Media Relations Division (media@imf.org)

IMF Headquarters 1 Building (Red and Blue levels)
700 19th Street NW

10:00 a.m. 

Press Briefing: World Development Report (WDR) 2006, Equity and Development; World Bank Chief Economist François Bourguignon and WDR lead authors Francisco Ferreira and Michael Walton

World Bank J Building ( 701 18th St., NW) Room J1-050

8:00 a.m. 

Press Room Opens

IMF Headquarters 1 Building (Red and Blue levels)

9:00 a.m. 

Press Briefing: World Economic Outlook (WEO); IMF Economic Counsellor and Research Department Director Raghuram Rajan
Transcript
Webcast

Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters 1 Building

11:00 a.m. 

Press Briefing: International Finance Corporation Annual Report 2005; IFC  Vice President, Operations and Acting Executive Vice President Assaad Jabre

IMF Headquarters 1 Building, Room R-710

8:30 a.m. 

Annual Meetings Program of Seminars

World Bank F Building

2121 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

9:00 a.m. 

Press Briefing: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz
Transcript
Webcast

Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters 1 Building

10:30 a.m. 

Press Briefing: IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato
Transcript
Webcast

Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters 1 Building

8:30 a.m. 

Annual Meetings Program of Seminars

 World Bank F Building

9:00 a.m. 

Group of 24 Ministers Meeting
Communiqué
Transcript
Webcast

IMF Headquarters 1 Building, Meeting Hall

10:15 a.m. 

IMF Press Briefing on Latin America - Anoop Singh, Director, Western Hemisphere Department
Transcript
Webcast

IMF Headquarters 1
Room B-702

10:30 a.m. 

IMF Press Briefing: Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Economic Outlook - Abdoulaye Bio-Tchané, Director, African Department
Transcript
Webcast

IMF Headquarters 1
R-710 Auditorium

12:00 p.m. 

Press Briefing: World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region; World Bank Vice President for the MENA region Christiaan Poortman, MENA Chief Economist Mustapha Nabli, and Iraq Country Director Joseph Saba
Transcript

IMF Headquarters, Room R-710

1:15 p.m. 

World Bank Media Luncheon/Briefing on Latin America and the Caribbean; World Bank Vice President for Latin America Pamela Cox, and Chief Economist for Latin America Guillermo Perry

WB I Building, Room I8-300 1850 I (Eye) St

1:30 p.m. 

Press Briefing: Europe and Central Asia's progress on the Millennium Development Goals; World Bank Human Development Manager for the (ECA region) Arup Banerji

IMF Headquarters, Room R-620

2:30 p.m. 

Press Briefing: Chair of the Group of 24 Ministers
Webcast
Communiqué

Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters 1 Building

8:30 a.m. 

Annual Meetings Plenary Session
(Opening Ceremonies and speeches)
Webcast

DAR Constitution Hall

11:30 a.m. 

International Monetary and Financial Committee (Photo-op only)

IMF Headquarters 1 Building, Meeting Hall

11:30 a.m. 

Press Briefing: African Finance Ministers
Webcast
Transcript

IMF Headquarters 1 Building, Room B-702

Approx.
5:45 p.m. 

Press Briefing: IMFC Chairman Gordon Brown and IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato
Webcast
Communiqué
Transcript

Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters 1 Building

7:30 a.m. 

G-10 Ministers Meeting (Photo-Op only)

IMF Headquarters 1 Building, IMF Board Room

9:00 a.m. 

Development Committee (Photo-op only)

World Bank MC Building, Preston Auditorium

10:30 a.m. 

Presentations on African Issues - Mr. Don Marcelino Owono Edu, Minister of Economy and Budget, Republic of Equatorial Guinea; Mr. Adboulay Diop, Minister of State, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Republic of Senegal; Mr. Charles P. McPherson, Senior Adviser, Oil, Gas, Mining, and Chemicals Department, World Bank
Webcast
Transcript

IMF Headquarters 1 Building, Room R-710

3:00 p.m. 

Per Jacobsson Lecture: Mr. Michel Camdessus, former Managing Director, IMF, on "International Financial Institutions: Dealing with New Global Challenges"

Grand Ballroom (3rd Floor) The Marvin Center at George Washington University, 800 21st St. N.W., Washington, D.C.

3:15 p.m. 

Development Committee Press Briefing: Minister Trevor Manuel, Chairman of the Development Committee; Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank; Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the IMF
Webcast
Communiqué
Transcript

Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters 1 Building

4:00 p.m. 

Annual Meetings Plenary Session
Webcast
(speeches)

IMF Headquarters 2 Building, Conference Hall