African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina Leads Delegation to IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, April 8, 2019 – President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, is expected to attend Washington's spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank on April 9-12.

Dr. Adesina and a delegation of senior Bank officials are expected to meet Karen Bbad, Member of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and the United States international law. Organizations. Other US government officials and investors will attend the meeting.

During his four-day trip to Washington, Mr. Adesina will also hold bilateral meetings with leaders of multilateral sister development banks (MDBs), including Takehiko Nakao, president of the Asian Development Bank; Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Dr. Adesina badumed the presidency of all the BMDs in Davos earlier this year.

Bilateral meetings with Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norwegian Minister for International Development; L & # 39; Hon. Maryam Monsef, Canadian Minister for International Development and Deputy Minister, Masa Asakawa, Japan's Deputy Minister of Finance for International Affairs.

On Wednesday, April 10, the President and his delegation will participate in the 3^rd Consultative Forum of Finance Ministers of the Southern African Development Community.

The meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Governors Consultative Committee, to be held on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank meetings on April 11, should be one of the highlights of the country trip. in development. The meeting aims to advance discussions on the 7^th General Capital Increase (GCI-VII) of the Bank Group. It follows the consultation meeting of regional and non-regional governors of December 2018 held in Rome.

The president's four-day agenda will end with a ministerial meeting of African ministers of finance and the economy. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; A development economist and former Nigerian finance minister and Lord Nicholas Stern, professor of economics and chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, will also be present.