Events

Recent Event
Tue, Apr 16, 2024 • 4:00 pm
by invitation only
HQ1 International Monetary Fund
Washington, DC
Recent Event
Tue, Apr 16, 2024 • 8:30 am
McKinsey & Company
1200 19th St NW STE 1000
Washington, DC 20036
United States of America
Recent Event
Mon, Apr 15, 2024 • 3:00 pm
Center for Global Development
2055 L St NW
Washington, DC 20036
*In-Person and Virtual Conference

Work Program

The Working Group is addressing how the multilateral system can be strengthened to address 21st century global challenges.

The Working Group is preparing recommendations to improve the sovereign debt resolution architecture and to prevent future crises.

The Working Group drives the Committee’s efforts to educate U.S. policymakers on the importance of the international financial institutions and continued U.S. support.

This Working Group will seek to address a range of topics and trends impacting the future of finance.

The BWC Blog aims to help global leaders envision how to evolve and strengthen the multilateral financial system and encourage policymakers to strengthen international economic cooperation.

In this educational podcast from the BWC, Nancy Jacklin, longtime BWC member and former US Executive Director of the IMF, sits down with experts for the benefit of non-experts interested in the Bretton Woods Institutions and other IFIs because of their educational pursuits, employment, or just their curiosity. 

Member Spotlight

BWC member Paul Sheard interviewed by Vasant Dhar argues that "monetary policy-making seems tailor-made" for eventual AI automation: clear policy goals, tools to achieve them, models of the economy and how decisions help achieve the goal, and past data.

BWC chair William C. Dudley writes for Bloomberg Opinion that "officials should evaluate the quantitative easing program" as part of next year's review.

"The aim should be to learn from past mistakes... focusing not only on the benefits, but also on the costs."

BWC member, Hung Tran, writes about the pressure that the yen, and other currencies, feel during a time of dollar strength and in the current geopolitical context. 

This week we welcome new member Lizabeth Bronder, managing director at Bank of America.

Her expertise is in multilateral development and impact and sustainable investing in emerging markets.

We appreciate her support for our work and look forward to her engagement!

Developing countries that identify themselves as parts of the Global South (GS) face a difficult task in making their collective influence felt in international affairs.

The Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to spotlight a recent piece from Creon Butler, BWC Climate and Energy Transition Finance co-chair. The piece highlights the size of the current climate finance gap and finds an answer in a more streamlined and "simplified" model.