22-23 May 2023  OECD, Paris

The 30^th Global Forum on Public Debt Management was held fully in-person on 22-23 May, 2023 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. More than 100 attendees representing around 50 countries and a number of international organisations participated in this year’s Forum meeting.

The Forum focused on challenges and opportunities for public debt managers in the current context of geopolitical tensions, monetary policy normalisation and high borrowing needs. The sessions covered the following topics:

• The outlook for sovereign borrowing and funding conditions
• Planning and coordination in government cash and debt management
• Leading practices in buyback and switch operations: purposes, costs, and design features
• Importance of credible institutional frameworks for debt management
• Evolution of approaches to incorporating ESG factors into public debt management

›This event also provided an occasion for the launch of the 2023 edition of the OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook. 

› More information available in the Agenda. 

Next forum will be held in 2024, exact dates to be announced soon.

Enquiries should be addressed to [email protected].

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About the Global Forum

The OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management is a roundtable meeting for public debt managers from the OECD area (as well as regulators, central bankers, other financial policy makers and, on occasion, private sector participants) to meet with their counterparts from non-OECD countries. The forum facilitates discussions on best practices, experiences, and policies in the field of government debt management as well as the development of government and corporate securities markets. The Forum also gives the opportunity to debate emerging challenges associated with complex interactions between public debt management, fiscal policy and monetary policy.

The relevance of these Global Forums has increased over the years as debt managers from emerging market countries increasingly face challenges similar to those of their counterparts from advanced markets due to pressures from global finance, the international nature of financial volatility, and the related need to share and implement best practices in this policy area. In addition, emerging markets have become more important players.

The Global Forum is organised under the aegis of the OECD Working Party on Debt Management and financially supported by the Japanese government.

PREVIOUS EVENTS

2022 - Global Forum Agenda

2021 - Global Forum Agenda

2020 Global Forum - Agenda

OECD Webinar: Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in times of COVID-19, September 2020

2019 Global Forum - Agenda

2018 Global Forum- Agenda

RELATED LINKS

OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook

Brief note on public debt management responses to COVID-19

2020 Special COVID-19 Edition of the OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook

Responding to COVID-19 Challenges: Cash buffers for a rainy day