EVENTS
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Luciana Botafogo, Executive President, FONPLATA (above); and President Abdulhamid Alkhalifa signs a loan with Lyonpo Lekey Dorji, Minister of Finance, Bhutan (below left)
such as the FONPLATA Development Bank and CAF–Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and enhance efforts in the region. Vice President, Finance, Tarek Sherlala and Assistant Treasurer & Head of Funding Martine Mills Jansen held high- level meetings with investors, key debt capital market intermediaries and credit rating agencies. Discussions
in the community of multilateral development banks (MDBs), particularly those that may have an impact on issuances and credit ratings as MDBs continue to translate the G20 recommendations into concrete steps to meet the increased expectations of their shareholders and borrowers. Vice President, Public Sector Al Shaimaa Al-Sheiby and Public Sector Director, MENA, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Musab Alomar, attended the development financial institutions’ roundtable on Mission 300, dedicated to connecting Africans to electricity and organized by the World Bank. They also attended the G24 Ministers and Governors Meeting, the G24 Deputies Meeting and the Development
for Sustainable Development, ECA region, took place. Private Sector Business Development Director Khalid Khadduri and Senior Investment Manager Karin Oszuszky held meetings with other MDBs, development finance institutions, commercial banks and clients to support our private sector activities. These included meetings with the management of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the British International Investment (BII), ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), Trade and Development Bank (TDB) and the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO; commercial banks including Commercial Bank of Dubai, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Standard Chartered and others, as well as Global IME Bank, SQB and Rawbank. Country Manager Malak Draz met with the World Bank country managers for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, as well as a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
focused on funding activities, treasury- related issues as well as the latest developments
Committee Meeting. In addition, bilateral meetings with Eduard Hakobyan, Deputy Minister of Finance of Armenia; representatives of the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey, and Sameh Wahba, World Bank Regional Director
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