Michele Robinson - Debt Management Consultant

May 2012

May 14-25: Crown Agents - Harnessing CS-DRMS in the Operational Environment; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

April 2012

April 27, 2012: World Bank Treasury - International Retail Debt Management Symposium; Washington, D.C., USA.

January 2012

January 19-20 - OECD - 21st OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management; Paris, France. Read more

December 2011

December 5-9: World Bank - Workshop on Designing Government Debt Management Strategies; Washington, D.C., USA. Read more

December 5-16: Crown Agents - Domestic Debt Management - Challenges and Techniques; Sutton, UK. Read more

December 12-16: World Bank - Workshop on Implementing Government Debt Management Strategies; Washington, D.C., USA. Read more

October 2011

October 10-21: Crown Agents - Advanced CS-DRMS User Training; Sutton, UK. Read more

October 18: CARTAC/Commonwealth Secretariat - Caribbean Debt Management Forum, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

October 19-21: Inter-American Development Bank - LAC Debt Group Meetings; Montego Bay, Jamaica.

October 24-28: International Monetary Fund - Public Sector Debt Statistics Workshop for Senior Officials; Singapore.

September 2011

September 5-16, 2011: International Monetary Fund - Public Sector Debt Statistics Workshop; Vienna, Austria.

September 13-16: Central Banking Events - Government Debt Management - New Trends and Challenges; Cambridge, UK. Read more



September 23, 2011: IMF/World Bank - Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group; Washington, D.C., USA.

September 23, 2011: Inter-American Development Bank - High -Level Meeting with Caribbean member countries and OECS states; Washington, D.C., USA.

September 26-October 7, 2011: Crown Agents - Debt Sustainability and Risk Analysis; Sutton, United Kingdom.

July 2011

July 1, 2011: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank - Meeting of ECCU Regional Debt Coordinating Committee: Basseterre, St. Kitts.

July 4-8, 2011: World Bank Treasury - Implementing Government Debt Strategies; Vienna, Austria.

June 2011

June 8-9, 2011: World Bank - Debt Management Facility (DMF) Stakeholders' Forum on "Managing Debt": Lessons Learned and Emerging Issues: Berne, Switzerland.

June 23-July 1, 2011: World Bank Treasury - Designing Government Debt Strategies; Vienna, Austria.

June 27-July 8, 2011: Crown Agents - Best Practice in Public Debt Management; Sutton, United Kingdom.

May 2011

May 9-20, 2011: Crown Agents - Introduction to CS-DRMS; Sutton, United Kingdom.

May 9-13, 2011: Commonwealth Secretariat - Advanced Training for Outstanding CS-DRMS eLearning Participants; London, United Kingdom

May 25-26, 2011: Caribbean Development Bank - Meeting of Board of Governors; Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

April 2011

April 16-17, 2011: IMF/World Bank: Annual Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group; Washington, D.C., USA. Read more

March 2011

March 7-18, 2011: International Monetary Fund - IMF Public Sector Debt Statistics for G20+ Countries; Vienna, Austria.

March 31-April 1, 2011: Commonwealth Secretariat - Debt Management Stakeholders Conference; London, United Kingdom. Read more

March 29-30, 2011: Commonwealth Secretariat - CS-DRMS User Group Meeting; London, United Kingdom. Read more

February 2011

February 10, 2011: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank - Meeting of ECCU Regional Debt Coordinating Committee; Basseterre, St. Kitts.

February 9-11, 2011: International Monetary Fund - Meeting of IMF Government Finance Statistics Advisory Committee; Washington, D.C., USA.

February 11, 2011: UNCTAD - Resolution of Debt Crises - The Policy and Research Agenda: New York, USA. Read more

Feburary 28- March 4: CEMLA/World Bank - Joint World Bank/CEMLA Workshop on the Debt Management Performance Assessment (DEMPA) tool; Mexico City, Mexico.

January 2011

January 27 - 28, 2011: International Monetary Fund/University of the West Indies/Central Bank of Barbados - Caribbean Conference - Options for the Caribbean after the Financial Crisis; Bridgetown, Barbados. Read more

November 2010

November 29 - December 10, 2010: Crown Agents - Domestic Debt Management:Challenges and Techniques; Sutton, UK. Read more

November 8 - 17: Commonwealth Secretariat - In-country workshop on Introduction to CS-DRMS; Bridgetown, Barbados.

October 2010

October 25-27, 2010: World Bank Treasury - Sovereign Debt Management Forum; Washington DC, United States. Read more 

October 21, 2010: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank - Meeting of ECCU Regional Debt Coordinating Committee; Basseterre, St. Kitts

October 9-11, 2010: IMF/World Bank - 2010 Annual Meetings; Washington, DC, USA.

October 7-8, 2010: Commonwealth Secretariat - Finance Ministers Meeting; Washington, DC, USA.  Read more

October 4-15, 2010: Crown Agents - Advanced CS-DRMS User Training; Sutton, UK. Read more

September 2010

September 27, 2010: Commonwealth Secretariat - Consultative Workshop on Policy Options to Address the Looming Debt Problems of Commonwealth Small Vulnerable Economies; Kingston, Jamaica.

September 15-16, 2010: FTI - Training for Effective Public Sector Debt Management; Dublin, Ireland. Read more

August 2010

August 9-18, 2010: Commonwealth Secretariat - CS-DRMS IT  Workshop for ECCU Countries; Basseterre, St. Kitts. Read more 

July 2010

July 26-August 6, 2010: Crown Agents - Best Practice in Public Debt Management; Surrey, United Kingdom. Read more

July 19-August 2, 2010: Commonwealth Secretariat - Debt Data Validation in Guyana; Georgetown, Guyana. Read more 

July 14-16: Inter-American Development Bank - VI Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Debt Management Specialists Group: Mexico City, Mexico. Read more

June 2010

June 23-24, 2010: Commonwealth Secretariat - Expert Meeting on Dealing with the Looming Debt Problem of Small Vulnerable Economies: London, United Kingdom. 

June 21-30, 2010: Commonwealth Secretariat - Regional Workshop on Developing a Debt Bulletin through use of CS-DRMS: Bridgetown, Barbados. Read more

June 7-11, 2010: World Bank Treasury - Implementing Government Debt Management Strategies; Vienna, Austria. Read more

May 2010

May 31-June 4, 2010: World Bank Treasury - Designing Government Debt Management Strategies; Vienna, Austria. Read more

May 19-20: Caribbean Development Bank - 40th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Develoment Bank; Nassau, The Bahamas. Read more

May 14: CARTAC - Steering Committeee Meeting; Bridgetown, Barbados. Read more

May 10-21: Crown Agents - Introduction to CS-DRMS; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more 

May 10-14: Commonwealth Secretariat - Mission on Debt Strategy in Dominica; Rosseau, Dominica.  Read more

May 3-4: Commonwealth Secretariat - Review Mission to Guyana on CS-DRMS project and Commonwealth Secretariat Securities Auctioning System (CS-SAS); Georgetown, Guyana. Read more

April 2010

April 24-25: International Monetary Fund/World Bank - Annual Spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group; Washington, D.C., United States.

April 19-30: Crown Agents - Loan Evaluation and Negotiation Workshop; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

April 8-9: International Monetary Fund/World Bank/OECD - Eleventh OECD/WBG/IMF Global Bond Market Forum: Washington, D.C.  Read more

March 2010

March 19: Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) - IADB -IIC Annual Meetings; Cancun, Mexico. Read more

March 2-4: Commonwealth Secretariat - Round Table on Public Debt Analytical Tool; London, United Kingdom. Read more

February 2010

February 15-26: Commonwealth Secretariat - Training of Trainers Workshop in CS-DRMS; London, United Kingdom. Read more.

February 11: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) - Meeting of the ECCU Regional Debt Coordinating Committee; Basseterre, St. Kitts.

January 2010

January 19: International Monetary Fund - High Level Conference on Exiting from High Public Debt; Paris France. Read more

January 14: Government of Jamaica - Launch of domestic debt exchange offer (JDX); Kingston, Jamaica

November 2009

November 30 - December 11: Crown Agents - Workshop on Effective Domestic Debt Management: Worthing, UK.  Read more

November 27-29: Commonwealth Secretariat - Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM); Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Read more 

November 16-20: Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA): Joint CEMLA/IMF/World Bank Training for Trainers Workshop on Debt Sustainability for Low Income Countries; Mexico City, Mexico.

November 16-20: World Bank Treasury: Implementing Government Debt Strategies; Washington, DC, USA. Read more

November 9-13: World Bank - Designing Government Debt Management Strategies; Washington, DC, USA. Read more

November 9-11: UNCTAD - Debt Management Conference; Geneva, Switzerland. Read more

November 8-12: Crown Agents - Debt Management and Public Financial Management Systems; Dubai, UAE. Read more

October 2009

October 30: Commonwealth Secretariat: High Level Meeting of Permanent Secretaries of ECCU Countries on Debt Management; Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis. Read more

October 19-28: Commonwealth Secretariat: Training Workshop on Debt Sustainability, Portfolio Analysis and Debt Strategy; Belize City, Belize. Read more

October 19-20: Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC)/Inter-American Development Bank - LAC Debt Management Workshop on Debt Sustainability and Debt Statistics; Washington, DC, USA. Read more

October 5-19: Crown Agents - Advanced CS-DRMS User Training; Worthing, UK.  Read more 

October 6-7: IMF/World Bank - Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund; Istanbul, Turkey. Read more 

September 2009

September 21-25: Commonwealth Secretariat - ComSec/World Bank Regional Training Workshop on Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA) Tool; Singapore. Read more 

September 17-18: Commonwealth Secretariat - Private Sector external Debt Workshop on Capturing Debt Data; London, UK. Read more 

September 1-4: Central Banking Publications Ltd: Government Debt Management: New Trends and Challenges, Residential Workshop; Cambridge, UK. Read more 

July 2009

July 20 - 31: Crown Agents - Training workshop on New Challenges in Debt Management; Worthing, UK. Read more

June 2009

June 29 - July 10: Commonwealth Secretariat/World Bank - Joint Commonwealth Secretariat / World Bank mission on medium term debt strategy in Jamaica; Kingston, Jamaica.

June 1 - 12: Crown Agents - Training Workshop on Negotiating International Finance; Worthing, UK. Read more

May 2009

May 4-13: Commonwealth Secretariat - Workshop on Debt Sustainability, Portfolio Review and Debt Strategy; Belize City, Belize. Read more 

May 7-8: Inter-American Development Bank - Second Regional Review on Aid for Trade: Montego Bay, Jamaica. Read more

May 11-22: Crown Agents - Workshop on Introduction to CS-DRMS; Worthing, UK. Read more. 

May: World Bank Treasury - Public Debt Management workshops on Designing Government Debt Management Strategies and Implementing a Debt Management Strategy; Paris, France.  Read more

April 2009

April 2: G20 - Annual meeting of Group of Twenty (G20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the major industrial and emerging market countries; London, UK. Read more

April 17-18: LAC Debt Group - Fifth Annual Meeting of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Debt Management Specialists, Montevideo, Uruguay. Read more 

April 22-24: World Bank - Caribbean Regional Conference on Public Financial Management Reforms; Castries, St Lucia, WI. Read more

April 25-26: IMF/World Bank - Annual Spring Meetings; Washington, D.C.

January 2009

January 19-23: Crown Agents - Workshop on Debt Management and Public Finance Management Systems; London, UK. Read more

December 2008

December 3: Caribbean Development Bank - Seminar on Global Financial Crisis and the Caribbean: Impact and Response - in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank; Bridgetown, Barbados, WI. Read more

December 1-3: Commonwealth Secretariat - Workshop on QEDS-GDDS Project and External Debt Reporting Requirement; London, UK.

October 2008

October 27 - November 7: Commonwealth Secretariat - On-Site Training Workshop on CS-DRMS; Kingston, Jamaica, WI.

October 27-29: World Bank Treasury - Fourth Sovereign Debt Management Forum; Washington, D.C., USA. Read more

October 23: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) - Meeting of ECCU Financial Secretaries; Basseterre, St. Kitts, WI.

October 23: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) -Meeting of Regional Debt Coordinating Committee; Basseterre, St. Kitts, WI.

October 12-13: Annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank; Washington, D.C., USA.

October 6-8: Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting, Castries, St. Lucia, WI.  Read more

September 2008

September 24: OECS High-Level Debt Management Forum; Basseterre, St. Kitts, WI. Read more

September 8 - 19: Crown Agents - Debt Reorganisation Issues and Solutions training workshop, Worthing, UK

September 2 - 5: Central Banking Ltd  - Government Debt Management: New Trends and Challenges, Cambridge University, UK. Read more

September 2 - 4: Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Accra, Ghana. Read more

July 2008

July 28: Commonwealth Secretariat - Public Private Partnerships - Commonwealth Executive Leadership Programme for Officials from the Caribbean and Mediterranean Regions, Australia

July 14 - 16: 6th UK/Caribbean Ministerial Forum, London, UK. 

July 8 - 10: CARTAC - Regional Public Financial Management Conference, Castries, St. Lucia. Read more

July 7 - 9: Group of Eight (G8) Heads of Government summit, Toyako, Japan. Read more

July 1 - 4: 29th Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government, Bolans, Antigua and Barbuda, WI.  Read more

June 2008

June 26-27: Commonwealth Secretariat - Debt Management Forum (formerly CS-DRMS User Group Meeting) London, UK. Read more 

June 23 - July 4: Crown Agents - New Challenges in Debt Management Workshop, Worthing, UK. Read more

June 9-10: Commonwealth Heads of Government Mini Summit to discuss Reform of International Institutions, London, UK. Read more

May 2008

May 14-16: Fourth Annual Meeting of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Debt Management Specialists, Port of Spain, Trinidad, WI. Read more

Do you know of any important news or events related to public debt management in or relevant to the Caribbean?  If so, please contact me at:

consult@michelerobinson.net