Celebrating Black History: An International View

Please join the Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law(This link opens in a new tab) (IIEL) and the International Monetary Fund(This link opens in a new tab) for our virtual event “Celebrating Black History: An international view of the past, present, and future”, on Friday, February 25 from 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. ET.

In celebration of Black History Month(This link opens in a new tab), the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Director General Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala(This link opens in a new tab), the first woman and the first African to serve as WTO Director-General, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva(This link opens in a new tab), will reflect on the evolving role of Africa in the international community, and discuss their organizations’ efforts to mobilize an inclusive international economic agenda. The wide ranging conversation will cover, among other topics, regional trade and integration in Africa, inflation, and what the digital transformation of the global economy means for the continent’s economic development.

RECENT WORK ON INCLUSION

To learn more about IIEL’s latest work on financial inclusion, please visit our DC Fintech Week website(This link opens in a new tab), watch our Juneteenth Forum on “Can Black and Brown Banks Compete in a Digital Economy?(This link opens in a new tab)“, and check out our latest publication “Future Proofing Inclusion Technology Proposals for CDFIs and MDIs(This link opens in a new tab)“.

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We thank VISA for their generous support of IIEL programming in 2022.