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IMF Annual Meeting 2024

Ásgeir Jónsson, Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, and Tómas Brynjólfsson, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, participated along with other representatives from the Central Bank of Iceland in the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund held in Washington DC on October 21-26, 2024. The Governor represents Iceland in the Board of Governors of the IMF. The Governor also attended the meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC).

The Governor and representatives from the Central Bank also met with representatives of the IMF, the Nordic-Baltic Constituency, rating agencies, financial institutions, thinktanks, and delegations from other countries. Furthermore, the Governor participated in a roundtable discussion on the IMF‘s Integrated Policy Framework (IPF) hosted by First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath. Participating in the roundtable were policymakers from countries that have participated in country pilots related to the application of the IPF. The Funds latest Article IV report on Iceland can be found here, and the Selected Issues Paper (SIP) on the IPF application here.

The International Monetary and Financial Committee meets biannually, where the Fund presents its assessment of the global economic outlook, financial stability, and the fiscal situation. The Managing Director of the Fund also presents her Global Policy Agenda. Mohammed Aljadaan, Minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia, chaired the meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) and Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, Finance Minister of Norway represented the Nordic-Baltic constituency in the IMFC on this occasion.
Links to various meeting documents:

The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda, Annual Meetings 2024: Secure A Soft Landing And Break From The Low Growth–High Debt Path.

Chair's Statement Fiftieth Meeting of the IMFC.

IMFC Statement by Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, Minister of Finance, Norway, on behalf of Denmark, Republic of Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Republic of Latvia, Republic of Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden.

Photo 1: Ásgeir Jónsson, Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, and Tómas Brynjólfsson, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability with Alfred Kammer the Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund

Photo 2: Ásgeir Jónsson, Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, with Gita Gopinath, Deputy Director of the Inretnational Monetary Fund