By JEPH ADE

As part of the previously announced Bretton Woods at 80 Initiative, the IMF and the World Bank Group are on September 26?27, 2024, hosting a high-level retreat at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

The two-day Chatham House Rules event, it was learnt, will bring together a small and diverse group of global thinkers?including individuals prominent in the fields of history, international relations, political science, finance, and business?at the location of the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (the ?Bretton Woods Conference.?)

A statement on the event says the three External Advisors to the Bretton Woods at 80 Initiative, Patrick Achi, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, and Mark Malloch-Brown, will help guide the discussions.

Senior management and staff from both the Bank and the Fund are expected to be in attendance, including President Ajay Banga and Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

The purpose of the retreat, the two Bretton Woods institutions disclosed, is to facilitate a discussion on the shape of the world economy 20?30 years from now, how multilateralism may evolve, and how the Bank and Fund can best continue to support stability and progress on a livable planet.

This retreat is part of an ongoing series of consultations with IMF and World Bank stakeholders that will continue to be led by the External Advisors at events and engagements over the coming months.

Contacts on the retreat can be made through Pavis Devahasadin, media@imf.org for IMF and David M. Theis, dtheis@worldbankgroup.org for the World Bank.

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