https://www.cgdev.org/event/introducing-imfs-first-gender-strategy

SPEAKERS 

• Ratna Sahay, Senior Advisor on Gender in the Office of the Managing Director, IMF
• Philip Jennings, Executive Director of the IMF Board of Governors
• Reza Baqir, Former Governor, State Bank of Pakistan
• Malado Kaba, Director for Gender, Women, and Civil Society at the African Development Bank & former Minister of Finance, Guinea 
• Masood Ahmed, President, Center for Global Development

MODERATOR 

• Megan O’Donnell, Policy Fellow & Assistant Director for Gender, Center for Global Development 

In launching its first-ever Gender Mainstreaming Strategy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has taken an unprecedented step. The strategy’s development and recent Board approval reflect the Fund’s understanding of the macro-critical nature of gender equality as well as macroeconomic policies’ ability to either widen or narrow gender gaps.