Michele Robinson |Debt Management Consultant

2022

May 2022

May 2: Nexus PFM Consulting - Politics and Public Finance podcast on Escaping the Public Debt Trap. Read more

April 2022

April 26: Westminster Foundation for Democracy/National Democratic institute - The Role of Parliaments in Managing Public Debt. Virtual launch and panel discussion. Read more

2021

October 2021

October 12: The Commonwealth - 2021 Commonwealth Finance Ministers Metting (CFMM). Read more

October 11-17: The IMF and World Bank Group - 2021 Annual Meetings. Read more. 

October 4-15: Joint Vienna Institute - Debt Management, Debt Reporting, and Investor Relations virtual training course. Read more.

September 2021

September 1-2: The Commonwealth - Virtual Debt Forum on Financing Recovery and Achieving Debt Sustainability in a Post-Pandemic Period. Read more

July 2021

July 5-9: Joint Vienna Institute - Implementing Government Debt Strategies. Read more

June 2021

June 28 - July 2: Joint Vienna Institute - Designing Government Debt Strategies. Read more

June 14-18: IMF - Virtual: Debt and Cash Management. Read more

May 2021

May 17-28: ILI - International Borrowing and Debt Management-Applications and Recent Developments. Read more

April 2021

April 26-30: Joint Vienna Institute - Understanding, Assessing and Managing Fiscal Risks online course. Read more

Apri 22: OECD - OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management. Read more

April 5-11: IMF and The World Bank Group - Virtual Spring Meetings 2021. Read more 

March 2021

March 29-April 30: UNITAR - Ethics in Public Finance online training course. Read more

2020

November 2020

November 12: OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management - Virtual Joint Meeting of the WPDM and the Global Forum on Public Debt Management. Read more

September 2020

September 24: Commonwealth Secretariat and AOSIS - Covid 19, Vulnerability, and the Urgent Need for Access to Finance in Small States. Read more

September 9-11: Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) - 24th Annual CAF Conference; online. Read more

June 2020

June 16-17: Euromoney - The Global Borrowers and Bond Investors Forum 2020; London, England. Read more

April 2020

April 16-17, 2020: International Monetary Fund/World Bank Group - 2020 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group; Washington, DC, USA.

January 2020

January 15 - April 15, 2020: International Monetary Fund - Public Sector Debt Statistics online training. Read more

2019

November 2019

November 6: International Monetary Fund - 2019 Caribbean Forum: Regional Transformation for Inclusive and Sustained Growth;  Bridgetown, Barbados. Read more

October 2019

October 19: World Bank - Small States Forum 2019, Washington DC, USA. Read more

October 14-20: IMF/World Bank Group - Annual Meetings, Washington, DC. USA.

October 2-3: IDB LAC Debt Group - 15th Annual Meeting of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Debt Specialists (LAC Debt Group); Montego Bay, Jamaica. Read more

September 2019

September 4-5: PDM Network - 2019 Public Debt Management Conference: Paris, France. Read more

June 2019

June 5-6: Commonwealth Secretariat - Commonwealth Public Debt Management fourm and lauch of Commonwealth Meridian; London, United Kingdom. Read more

May 2019

May 13-14: World Bank - 2019 Debt Management Facility Stakeholders Forum; Dakar, Senegal. Read more.

April 2019

April 23-24: OECD - 26th OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management; Paris, France.

April 12-14: World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund - 2019 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund; Washington, DC, USA.

April 11-12: Georgetown Institute of International Economic Lawy - Third Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference; Washington, DC, USA.

April 8 - May 10: UNITAR: Audit of Public Debt (2019); online course. Read more

March 2019

March 4 - April 5: UNITAR - Basic Course on Public Debt Management (2019); online course. Read more

2018

November 2018

November 6: Caribbean Development Bank - The Blue Economy Caribbean; Miami, Florida, USA.

October 2018

October 24-25: World Bank Treasury - Sovereign Debt Management Forum; Washington, DC. Read more.

October 12-14: IMF/World Bank - 2018 Annual Meetings of the international Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group; Bali Nusa Dua, Indonesia. Read more.

October 15-November 16: UNITAR - Audit of Public Debt; web-based. Read more

September 2018

September 17-October 19: UNITAR - Basic Course on Public Debt Management; web-based. Read more

July 2018

July 9-13:  World Bank Treasury - 2018 Designing Government Debt Management Strategies; Vienna, Austria. Read more

July 16-20:  World Bank Treasury - 2018 Implementing Government Debt Management Strategies; Vienna, Austria. Read more

May 2018

May 28-29: The World Bank Group - 2018 DMF Stakeholders' Forum,  "Rising Tide of Debt: Risk, Resilience, Responsibility"; Brussels, Belgium. Read more.

April 2018

April 30-May 4: World Bank Treasury - Assessing and Managing Risks from Contingent Liabilities; Vienna, Austria. Read more

April 26: UN-ECLAC - Caribbean Development Roundtable Meeting; Gros Islet, Saint Lucia. Read more.

April 26:  The  World Bank Treasury - International Retail Debt Symposium; Washington, DC, USA. Read more.

April 23-24: Bank of Canada - 5th International Conference on Sovereign Bond Markets; Ottawa, Canada. Read more.

April 20-22: IMF/World Bank - 2018 Spring Meetings; Washington, DC, USA. Read more

April 15-May 31: The Commonwealth - Using CS-DRMS for recording external and domestic debt (web-based). Read more

April 15-May 31: The Commonwealth - Introduction to external debt management concepts (web-based). Read more

April 15-May 31: The Commonwealth - Introduction to domestic debt management concepts (web-based). Read more

March 2018

March 29: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) - Regional  Debt Coordinating Committee meeting; Basseterre, St. Kitts.

February 2018

February 22-23: OECD - 25th Global Forum on Public Debt Management; Paris, France. Read more.

February 2:  Ministry of Finance (Jamaica) - Meeting of Public Debt Management Committee, Kingston, Jamaica.

2017

November 2017

November 6-10: CEMLA Public Debt Program - Regional Workshop on Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA); Mexico City, Mexico. Read more

September 2017

September 25 - October 6: CEMLA Public Debt Program - Regional Workshop on Medium-Term Debt Strategy Framework for Public Debt Management; Mexico City, Mexico. Read more

July 2017

July 25-29, 2017: World Bank Treasury - Implementing Government Debt Strategies; Vienna, Austria. Read more

July 18-22, 2017: World Bank Treasury - Developing Government Debt Strategies; Vienna, Austria. Read more

June 2017

June 12-16, 2017: Canada-Eastern Caribbean Debt Management Advisory Services (CANEC-DMAS) - Debt Managers Workshop; Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis.

February 2017

February 1:IMF EdX course - Debt Sustainability Analysis online course. Read more

February 2017: World Bank Treasury Webinar Series - IT Systems for Debt Management. Read more

January 2017

January 25:IMF EdX course - Financial Market Analysis online course.Read more

2016

October 2016

October 19-20: World Bank Treasury - Sovereign Debt Management Forum; Washington, DC. Read more.

July 2016

July 18-22: World Bank Treasury - Implementing Government Debt Strategies; Austria, Vienna. Read more

July 11-15: World Bank Treasury - Designing Government Debt Strategies; Austria, Vienna. Read more

March 2016

21 March-22 April: UNITAR - Legal Aspects of Public Debt Management eLearning course. 

21 March-22 April: UNITAR - Fundamentals of the Money Market eLearning course. Read more

14 March-15 April: UNITAR - Audit of Public Debt eLearning course. Read more

14 March-15 April: UNITAR - Fundamentals of the Bond Market eLearning course. Read more

7 March-1 April: UNITAR - Mathematics of Finance eLearning Course. Read More

February 2016

29 February-25 March: UNITAR - Fundamentals of Risk Management eLearning Course. Read more

2015

November 2015

November 27-29: The Commonwealth - Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM); Malta. Read more

November 16-27: Crown Agents - CS-DRMS Master Class: Optimising Debt Management Operations; Surrey, United Kingdom. Read more

November 10-14: DMAS - Workshop on Sovereign Debt Restructuring; St. Georges, Grenada.

November 9 - December 11: UNITAR - eLearning Course on International Negotiations: Practical Skills and Techniques. Read more

October 2015

October 9-11: International Monetary Fund/World Bank - Annual Meetings; Lima, Peru.

September 2015

September 7 - October 23: UNITAR - eLearning Course on Debt Restructuring with the Paris Club. Read more

August 2015

August 12-14: LAC Debt Group 11th Annual Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Public Debt Management Soecialists (LAC Debt Group); Bridgetown, Barbados. Read more

June 2015

June 22-26: Commonwealth Secretariat - Workshop on Developing a Debt Bulletin; Bridgetown, Barbados

June 17-19: Commonwealth Secretariat - 3rd Stakeholders Conference and User Group Meeting; Johannesburg, South Africa. Read more

June 8-12: World Bank Treasury - Implementing Government Debt Strategies; Austria, Vienna. Read more

June 1-5: World Bank Treasury - Designing Government Debt Strategies; Austria, Vienna. Read more

May 2015

May 20-21: Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) - 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors; Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis.

April 2015

April 17-19: International Monetary Fund/World Bank - Annual Spring Meetings; Washington, DC, USA. Read more

March 2015

March  25-26: Commonwealth Secretariat - Commonwealth Conference on Financing for Development in Small States; Bridgetown, Barbados.

February 2015

February 22 - March 6: Commonwealth Secretariat - Workshop on Developing a Debt Bulletin; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

February 18-19: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB-DMAS) - ECCU Debt Managers Retreat; Basseterre, St Kitts.

February 10:University of the West Indies (UWI) - Book Launch - Debt and Development in Small Island Developing States; Kingston, Jamaica.

January 2015

January 12-23: Commonwealth Secretariat - Training of Trainers workshop: London, England

2014

December 2014

December 3-5: World Bank Treasury - Sovereign Debt Management Forum; Washington DC, United States.

November 2014

November 17-28: Crown Agents - Debt Sustainability and Risk Management; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

November 3 - December 12: UNITAR - Legal Aspects of Public Debt Management; web-based training. Read more

November 3 - December 12: UNITAR - Basic Course on Public Debt Management; web-based training. Read more

October 2014

October 20 - November 7, 2014: World Bank e-Institute Debt Management Performance Asssessment (DEMPA); web-based training. Read more

October 10-12: International Monetary Fund/World Bank - 2014 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group; Washington, DC, United States.

September 2014

September 15-17: Eurononey Training - Debt and Capital Markets; London, United Kingdom. Read more

September 15-26: Crown Agents - CS-DRMS Masterclass: Optimising Debt Management Operations; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

September 9-12: Central Bank Publications - Government Debt Management: New Trends and Challenges; Cambridge, United Kingdom. Read more

September 1 - October 17: UNITAR  - Debt Resheduling with the Paris Club; web-based training. Read more

September 1 - October 3: UNITAR - International Negotiations: Practical Skills and Techniques; web-based training. Read more

September 1 - October 3; UNITAR - Fundamentals of the Derivatives Market; web-based training.  Read more

June 2014

June 2-6: World Bank Treasury - Workshop on  Designing Government Debt Management Strategies; Vienna, Austria.

June 9-13: World Bank Treasury - Workshop on Implementing Government Debt Management Strategies; Vienna, Austria.

May 2014

May 28-29: Caribbean Development Bank - Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors; Georgetown, Guyana.

April 2014

April 11-13: International Monetary Fund/World Bank - 2014 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group; Washington, DC, United States.

March 2014

March 26-27: Commonwealth Secretariat / Govt. of St. Lucia - 3rd Biennial Conference on Small States; Castries, St. Lucia.

March 3-14: Crown Agents - Debt Sustainability and Risk Management; Sutton workshop, United Kingdom. Read more

February 2014

February 24: Association of Caribbean States - Meeting of Experts on Debt Burden in the Caribbean Region; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Read more

2013

November 2013

November 18-29: International Monetary Fund/Joint Vienna Institute - Public Sector Debt Statistics Workshop; Vienna, Austria. Read more.

November 11-15: UNCTAD - Ninth International Debt Management Conference; Geneva, Switzerland. Read more

October 2013

October 21 - November1: Crown Agents - CS-DRMS and Horizon Masterclass: Optimising Debt Management Operations; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

October 14 - November 22: UNITAR - Numerical Methods for Finance and Capital Markets. Read more.

October 14 - November 22: UNITAR - Basic Course on Public Debt Management; on line course. Read more

October 14 - November 22: UNITAR - Understanding International Contracts and Loan Agreements. Read more

September 2013

September19-20: FTI Treasury - Training for Effective Public Sector Debt Management; Dublin, Ireland.

September 10-13: Central Banking - Government Debt Management: New Trends and Challenges; Cambridge, United Kingdom.

June 2013

June 17-18, 2013: CARADEM/Commonwealth Secretariat - 3rd Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Association of Debt Managers; Montego Bay, Jamaica. Read more

June 10-14: World Bank Treasury - Workshop on  Designing Government Debt Management Strategies; Vienna, Austria. Read more

June 5-7: Commonwealth Secretariat: Debt Managers Conference; London, United Kingdom.

June 3-7: World Bank Treasury - Workshop on Implementing Government Debt Management Strategies; Vienna, Austria. Read more

May 2013

May 23: Caribbean Development Bank - Seminar on Public Sector Debt in the Caribbean - An Agenda for Debt Reduction and Sustainability; Castries, St Lucia.

May 22-23: Caribbean Development Bank - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors; Castries, St. Lucia.

May 9: International Monetary Fund - IMF Book Launch and Seminar on: The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union - Macroeconomics and Financial Systems; Washington, DC, United States. Read more

April 2013

April 29 - May 10: Commonwealth Secretariat - CS-DRMS User Acceptance Testing and Training Workshop; Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Read more

April 19-21: International Monetary Fund/World Bank - 2013 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group; Washington, DC, United States.

April 15-26: Crown Agents - CS-DRMS and CS-PDAT Masterclass - Optimising Debt Management Operations; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

April 1-12: International Law Institute - International Borrowing and Debt Management; Washington, DC, United States. Read more

March 2013

March 13-17: Inter-American Development Bank - Annual Meetings of IADB-IIC; Panama City, Panama. Read more

February 2013

Februry 12: Government of Jamaica - Launch of National Debt Exchange (NDX). Read more

2012

December 2012

December 3-14: Crown Agents - Workshop on Domestic Debt Management: Challenges and Techniques; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

October 2012

October 8-19: Crown Agents - Workshop on Harnessing CS-DRMS in the Operational Environment; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

October 9-10: Commonwealth Secretariat - Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting; Tokyo, Japan. Read more

October 10: Commonwealth Secretariat - Launch of Commonwealth Horizon - A Public Debt Analytical Tool; Tokyo, Japan. See brochure

October 12-14: IMF/World Bank - Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group; Tokyo, Japan. Read more

October 15-19: Crown Agents - Public Debt Audit workshop; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

October 25-26: Inter-American Development Bank - Sixth LAC Debt Group Thematic Workshop; Washington, D.C. United States. Read more

October 29-31: World Bank Treasury - Sovereign Debt Management Forum; Washington D.C., United States. Read more

September 2012

September 3 - October 19: UNITAR - Online course on Debt Rescheduling with the Paris Club. Read more

September 4-5: IMF - High Level Debt Forum on Rethinking Policy to Address Low Growth and High Debt in the Caribbean; Port of Spain, Trinidad. Read more

September 17-28: Crown Agents - Workshop on Debt Sustainability and Risk Analysis; Sutton, United Kingdom. Read more

August 2012

August 6 - September 21: UNITAR - Online workshop on Effective Public Debt Management. Read more

August 27 - September 21: UNITAR - Online workshop on International Negotiations: Practical Skills and Techniques. Read more

July 2012

July 9-10: CARADEM/CARTAC - 2nd Annual Meeting of Caribbean Association of Debt Managers (CARADEM); Guatemala City, Guatemala

July 11-13: Inter-American Development Bank - 8th Annual Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Debt Management Specialists; Guatemala City, Guatemala. Read more

June 2012

June 11-15: World Bank Treasury - Workshop on Designing Government Debt Strategies; Vienna, Austria.

June 13-15: World Bank Treasury - 3rd Annual Gemloc Advisory Services Investor-Country Conference and Workshop; Istanbul, Turkey. Read more

June 18-22: World Bank Treasury - Workshop on Implementing Government Debt Strategies; Vienna, Austria.

June 27-29: IMF - 12th IMF Forum on Managing Sovereign Risk and Public Debt; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read more

May 2012

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

May 23-24: Caribbean Development Bank - Meeting of Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

May 28-31: CARTAC - Fiscal Risk Management Seminar; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Read more

April 2012

April 27: 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

2011

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

September 23: 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

February 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

2010

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: CrownAgents - 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

2009

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 Reviewon 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

2008

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 andBarbuda, 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

Featured Event

May 2: Podcast - YouTube nexuxpfm.com podcast on Escaping the Public Debt Trap with host, Geoff Dubrow, Former Minister of Finance, Jamaica, Dr. Peter Phillips and me. 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

Training Workshop Photos

 

CANEC-DMAS Debt Managers Workshop - June 2017, Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis

IMF/CANEC-DMAS Junior Debt Managers Programme - November 2016, Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis

World Bank Treasury: Sovereign Debt Management Forum - October 2016; Washington, DC, USA

Commonwealth Secretariat: Advanced CS-DRMS Workshop - October 2016; Georgetown, Guyana

Commonwealth Debt Management Forum - June 2015; Johannesburg, South Africa

Debt Bulletin Worshop - June 2015, Bridgetown, Barbados

Commonwealth Secretariat: CS-DRMS Training of Trainers - January 2015; London, UK