
Minister Michel Sapin to visit Washington D.C.
Michel Sapin, Minister of Finance and Public Accounts, will visit Washington from Thursday, April 14 to Saturday, April 16, 2016, for the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings.
Ahead of these meetings, he will meet with various personalities in order to discuss in particular the bill on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernization of the economy.
Draft program
Thursday, April 14 | |
8:00 am | Meeting with Brigitte Alepin, founder of TaxCoop |
12:15 pm | Lunch with Charles Duross, former Head of the Department of Justice’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit |
2:30 pm | Meeting with Elisabeth Warren, Democratic Senator for Massachusetts |
4:00 pm | Joint press conference in the G5 format on the Panama papers |
7:00 pm | Dinner attended by the finance ministers and the central bank governors of the G20 |
Friday, April 15 | |
8:30 am | Select meeting of the ministers and governors of the G20 followed by family photo |
2:00 pm | International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) introductory session |
3:30 pm | "Early Warning Exercise" meeting |
Saturday, April 16 | |
8:15 am | Breakfast hosted by the IMFC, followed by family photo |
10:00 am | IMFC plenary meeting |
1:30 pm | Lunch hosted by the Development Committee on the theme of “Forward Look” |
3:30 pm | Press conference |
On the sidelines of the annual meetings, the minister will notably meet with:
- Jack LEW, U.S. Treasury Secretary
- Lou JIWEI, Chinese Minister of Finance
- Pier-Carlo PADOAN, Italian Minister of Finance
- Luis VIDEGARAY CASO, Mexican Minister of Finance
- Pierre MOSCOVICI, European Commissioner
- Bill MORNEAU, Canadian Minister of Finance
- Jim Yong KIM, President of the World Bank
Press contacts
France
Office of Michel SAPIN
Tel. +33 1 53 18 41 13
sec.mfcp-presse@cabinets.finances.gouv.fr
United States
Office of Michel SAPIN
Stéphanie ABADIE
Tel. +33 6 26 27 37 05
anne.degenne@diplomatie.gouv.fr
French Embassy in the U.S.
Emmanuelle LACHAUSSEE
Tel. +1 202 330 2336
emmanuelle.lachaussee@diplomatie.gouv.fr