Lilia Razlog is a Senior Debt Specialist in the Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management Global Practice of the World Bank. She is a leading expert in Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA) evaluations, conducted by the World Bank as part of the Debt Management Facility technical assistance program, funded through a multi-donor trust fund. The program assists low and lower-middle income…
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Lee C. Buchheit retired in 2019 after a 43-year legal career. During his career, Mr. Buchheit worked on more than two dozen sovereign-debt restructurings. He led the legal teams advising Greece in the 2012 restructuring of government bonds totaling more than 206 billion euros (the largest sovereign-debt workout in history). He also advised the Republic of Iraq in the 2004-08 restructuring of $140…
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Rosa Sacre is a Managing Director of Société Générale’s Asset Recovery and Restructuring Management team, part of bank’s Risk Division, with over 20-year experience in the Debt Capital Markets in France, Eastern European countries and on the African continent. She represents the bank in negotiations in the full range of work-out solutions, capital restructurings and formal recovery through the…
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James H.M. Sprayregen is a Restructuring partner in the Chicago and New York offices of Kirkland & Ellis and has served on Kirkland’s worldwide management committee. An outstanding restructuring lawyer in the United States and around the world, he has led some of the most complex Chapter 11 filings in recent history. He has extensive experience representing major U.S. and international…
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Diego Rivetti is a Senior Debt Specialist at Macroeconomics Trade and Investment (MTI) Global Practice of the World Bank. In this role, he has been involved in different analytical projects and TA activities on public debt management, including debt transparency, debt sustainability analysis, elaboration of strategies, and development of government securities markets. Prior to joining the WB, he…
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Kristalina Georgieva currently serves as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, a position she was selected for on September 25, 2019 and has served as since October 1, 2019. Before joining the Fund, Ms. Georgieva was CEO of the World Bank from January 2017 to September 2019, during which time she also served as Interim President of the World Bank Group for three months. Previously…
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Nadir Abdellatif Mohammed is the Regional Director for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Prior to this appointment, he was the Director of Strategy and Operations in the Human Development Practice Group of the Bank overseeing the Human Capital project; as well as the Global Practices for education; health, nutrition and population…
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Did you know that despite making up 48% of the global work force – women only account for 22% of the traditional energy sector?
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This event will frame the public conversation on how governments should prioritize where it is most important to take policy action and how to best allocate scarce resources to support the recovery. It will also consider how to address the growing risks of over-indebtedness and increased financial fragilities.
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Debt in emerging market and developing economies has surged to a record high since the outbreak of COVID-19, but new analysis from the World Bank Group shows that the global and country-by-country systems for tracking it are proving to be grossly inadequate. Join the live discussion!
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