A CONVERSATION WITH SENEGAL’S MINISTER OF ECONOMY, PLANNING AND COOPERATION, OULIMATA SARR - As part of its annual dialogue series—held each year during the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings—the Africa Center, in cooperation with the GeoEconomics Center, hosted Senegalese Minister of Finance and...

A CONVERSATION WITH CAMEROON’S MINISTER OF ECONOMY, ALAMINE OUSMANE MEY - As part of its annual dialogue series—held each year during the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings—the Africa Center, in cooperation with the GeoEconomics Center, hosted Cameroon’s Minister of Economy, Planning, and Regiona...

A CONVERSATION WITH SPAIN’S MINISTER OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, NADIA CALVIÑO - The Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center and Europe Center hosted a conversation with Spain’s First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño. Min...

SPECIAL EVENT WITH PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK GROUP DAVID MALPASS - The Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center hosted an AC Front Page event featuring David Malpass. Malpass participated in this keynote event at the Atlantic Council studios one week before the world’s finance ministers and central...

US LEADERSHIP IN THE FUTURE OF MONEY: A CONVERSATION WITH UNDER SECRETARY NELLIE LIANG - March 2023 marked the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring the Responsible Development of Digital Assets, which addressed both the risks and the potential benefits of digital ...

The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center and GeoEconomics Center, in partnership with the Mastercard Policy Center for the Digital Economy hosted a roundtable discussion on the governance agenda for a digital-first future.

The roundtable explored the emerging World Bank governance agenda agains...

AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON BRETTON WOODS AND URGENCY OF REFORMS IN 2023 - The 2023 Spring Meetings focused on reshaping development for a new era, which included discussions on reforms that could help the Bretton Woods monetary institutions better address development needs on the African continent. ...

IMPROVING SANCTIONS ENFORCEMENT AGAINST RUSSIA: THE CHALLENGE OF 2023 - The most intense year in the history of sanctions listings is over, leaving an intense implementation challenge for 2023. In 2022, Western sanctions programs expanded by forty-two percent. It will not be a surprise to anyone ...

FRACTURED FOUNDATIONS: ASSESSING RISKS TO HONG KONG’S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - Hong Kong’s legal and political structure has fundamentally changed since the implementation of the National Security Law in 2020. When changes of this magnitude occur, it is difficult for anyone to know what shifts are ...

HOW FREE MARKETS SHAPE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT - One of the defining questions of our time is whether free markets or economies controlled by authoritarian regimes are better at delivering prosperity for their people.

A panel of distinguished experts held a discussion on free markets and development ...

HOW TO SUSTAIN AND REBUILD UKRAINE’S ECONOMY - Russia’s war on Ukraine is the greatest violation of international order and the greatest direct challenge to American interests in the past twenty years. As Russia’s military has failed on the battlefield, the Kremlin had waged a deliberate war on U...

THE REAL IMPACT OF WESTERN SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA
- In 2022, sanctions formed a critical element of the West’s response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Those sanctions led to a contraction of the Russian economy, cut off Putin’s cronies from their lavish lifestyles in the West, and degra...

THE NEXT GENERATION OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS: FASTER, CHEAPER, SAFER? - Do banks need several days to settle transactions across borders? Can the cost of remittances be lowered? As the US rolls out FedNow, its instant payments network, and considers a CBDC, what’s next in the world of payments i...

DECODING THE IMF WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK REPORT - From April 13, 2023, Atlantic Council GeoEcomonic experts Alexis Crow, Hung Tran, Martin Mühleisen and Jeremy Mark react to the International Monetary Fund's April World Economic Outlook report.

Join the Atlantic Council during the IMF-World Bank ...

BRAZIL'S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: A CONVERSATION WITH H.E. PAULO GUEDES, BRAZIL’S MINISTER OF THE ECONOMY - Brazil’s Minister of the Economy, Paulo Guedes, took office in 2019 with a focus on further opening Brazil’s economy and carrying out a series of reforms to reduce the size of the government and e...

CHINA PATHFINDER LAUNCH - The Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center and the Rhodium Group hosted the launch of our flagship China Pathfinder Project, a new interactive analysis of the Chinese economic system designed to answer a complex question: where does China’s system stand relative to open ...

TRUSTED CONNECTIVITY: SECURING DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN AN ERA OF STRATEGIC COMPETITION WITH CHINA - The Atlantic Council hosted the first event in the forum “Trusted Connectivity: Securing Digital Infrastructure in an Era of Strategic Competition with China,” featuring President of Estonia H.E....

BEHIND THE SCENES ON CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY - The GeoEconomics Center launched the International Monetary Fund’s new Fintech paper “Central Bank Digital Currency Behind the Scenes: Emerging Trends, Insights, and Policy Lessons.” The events keynote remarks were made by the Managing Director...

ATLANTIC COUNCIL-UC SAN DIEGO CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL CURRENCY IN CHINA AND THE ASIA PACIFIC - This conference brought together leading policymakers and private sector representatives to discuss the rapidly evolving digital currency landscape across the Asia Pacific region and its implications for ...

SPECIAL ADDRESS BY US TREASURY SECRETARY JANET L. YELLEN - United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen spoke at the Atlantic Council on April 13, 2022, on the way forward for the global economy in the wake of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Secretary Yellen delivered this importa...

CLIMATE FINANCE AND UKRAINE - The Atlantic Council hosted on Thursday, April 21, a discussion with President of the European Investment Bank Werner Hoyer to discuss how EU investment can assist Ukraine and in building resilient energy infrastructure in Europe. Julia Friedlander, then C. Boyden Gr...

A CONVERSATION WITH THE HONORABLE FINANCE MINISTER OF PAKISTAN, MIFTAH ISMAIL - There has been a flurry of political activity in Pakistan in April 2022 culminating in the vote of no-confidence that ousted Imran Khan from power and brought in a new government and cabinet. During this period, the c...

THE FUTURE OF UK BANKING AND FINANCE - The Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center, in partnership with New Financial and Centre for Policy Studies—two leading UK think tanks—hosted "the future of UK banking and finance" conference on April 28th. The event marked the launch of new research on UK fin...

WAR IN EUROPE: GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS AND THE TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMY - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has compounded supply chains and trade flows disruptions after the COVID pandemic. Sanctions and other restrictive measures may add fuel to the fire. Many countries, including the US and in Europe, ar...