October 14-15, 2026

Bangkok and On-Demand

Devex Impact House Bangkok
@ The World Bank/ IMF
Annual Meetings

WHERE INFLUENCE, CAPITAL, AND INNOVATION CONVERGE — NOW IN BANGKOK.

Every three years, the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings leave Washington. In October 2026, they're heading to Bangkok. The Asian region as host brings a different vantage point to these debates. It is where new financial institutions are rising, new development models are being tested, and new voices are demanding a seat at a table they increasingly help fund. And after decades of building health systems, infrastructure, and economies under real resource constraints, the region has blueprints for progress that the rest of the world is paying close attention to.

Finance ministers and policymakers, MDB and private sector leaders, philanthropies and social enterprises, investors and innovators, and civil society will converge on Bangkok for a week that will shape the direction of the global economy — and global development along with it.

Devex Impact House will be there, too, bringing our signature live journalism and convening to Bangkok on October 15–16. Because, the conversations that matter most right now aren't always happening in plenary halls.

Devex journalists will lead live interviews, high-level discussions, and curated roundtables, alongside the informal conversations and connections that make Devex Impact House the place to be during Annual Meetings week.

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Past Speakers


Stay tuned for more speaker announcements coming soon!

Axel van Trotsenburg

Axel van Trotsenburg

Senior managing director, World Bank

Dr. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin

Dr. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin

Executive director, Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program and professor of public health practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Jean Kaseya

Dr. Jean Kaseya

Director general, Africa CDC

Nadia Calviño

Nadia Calviño

President, European Investment Bank Group

Sangbu Kim

Sangbu Kim

Vice president for digital, World Bank

Angela Williams

Angela Williams

President and CEO, United Way Worldwide

French Hill

French Hill

Chairman, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services

Gunn Jorid Roset

Gunn Jorid Roset

Director-general, Norad - The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Amy Pope

Amy Pope

Director general, International Organization for Migration

Alexia Latortue

Alexia Latortue

Distinguished non-resident fellow, Center for Global Development

Avinash Persaud

Avinash Persaud

Special advisor to the President on climate change, Inter-American Development Bank

Samaila Zubairu

Samaila Zubairu

President & CEO, Africa Finance Corporation

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