Transcript of IMF Press Briefing
January 17, 2019
video: https://www.imf.org/external/mmedia/view.aspx?vid=5990584875001
MR. RICE: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this briefing on behalf of the International Monetary Fund. I'm Gerry Rice of the Communication Department. And, as usual, this morning this briefing will be embargoed until 10:30 a.m.; that's Washington time.
Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy New Year, both colleagues in the room and to those of you on line.
As usual, I will begin this morning by giving a very brief rundown of the schedule of engagements for senior management here at the IMF, then we'll turn to your questions in the room and a few on line as well.
So, on January the 21st -- that's next Monday -- the IMF's Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, will be in Davos for the World Economic Forum meeting that week. And there's actually quite a large number of public engagements in Davos for Christine Lagarde as well as our new Chief Economist, Gita Gopinath, who will be there, as will our First Deputy Managing Director, David Lipton. And, as I said, they all have various public and media engagements, and rather than run through them all there I'm going to suggest if you have an interest in all of those events, colleagues here in media relations can get the full program to you because, as I say, it's quite a long list.
But let me mention of couple of outstanding items. Notably, on Monday the 21st, as I mentioned, Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director, and Gita Gopinath will present the World Economic Outlook update of the IMF. And that will be at the press conference in Davos, 3:00 p.m., Swiss time. That's 9:00 o'clock here in Washington. So I know that's of great interest to many of you, the WEO update, and so this is going to happen on Monday. And, again, we will make sure that gets to you in a timely way, as usual.
MR. RICE: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this briefing on behalf of the International Monetary Fund. I'm Gerry Rice of the Communication Department. And, as usual, this morning this briefing will be embargoed until 10:30 a.m.; that's Washington time.
Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy New Year, both colleagues in the room and to those of you on line.
As usual, I will begin this morning by giving a very brief rundown of the schedule of engagements for senior management here at the IMF, then we'll turn to your questions in the room and a few on line as well.
So, on January the 21st -- that's next Monday -- the IMF's Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, will be in Davos for the World Economic Forum meeting that week. And there's actually quite a large number of public engagements in Davos for Christine Lagarde as well as our new Chief Economist, Gita Gopinath, who will be there, as will our First Deputy Managing Director, David Lipton. And, as I said, they all have various public and media engagements, and rather than run through them all there I'm going to suggest if you have an interest in all of those events, colleagues here in media relations can get the full program to you because, as I say, it's quite a long list.
But let me mention of couple of outstanding items. Notably, on Monday the 21st, as I mentioned, Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director, and Gita Gopinath will present the World Economic Outlook update of the IMF. And that will be at the press conference in Davos, 3:00 p.m., Swiss time. That's 9:00 o'clock here in Washington. So I know that's of great interest to many of you, the WEO update, and so this is going to happen on Monday. And, again, we will make sure that gets to you in a timely way, as usual.