Richard Melson

September 2006

IMF-World Bank Development Committee

The Secretariat of the Development Committee

is located in the main complex of the World Bank.

Address:

1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC
Room MC-12-427

Telephone: (202) 458-2980
Fax: (202) 522-1618
Internetdevcom@worldbank.org

Future Meetings:

Annual Meetings

IMFC: Sunday, September 17, 2006

DC: Monday, September 18, 2006

Annual Meetings: September 19-20, 2006

The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
tel: (202) 473-1000
fax: (202) 477-6391

Members and Observers

Member:	Constituency:
Kazuyoshi AKABA Senior Vice Minister of Finance Ministry of Finance Japan Alternate Member Hiroshi WATANABE Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs Ministry of Finance	Japan
Ibrahim AL-ASSAF Minister of Finance Saudi Arabia Alternate Member Hamad AL-SAYARI Governor, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency	Saudi Arabia
Ahmed bin Mohammed AL KHALIFA Minister of Finance Bahrain	Bahrain, Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Republic of Yemen
Hilary BENN Secretary of State for International Development, Department for International Development United Kingdom Alternate Member Gordon BROWN Chancellor of the Exchequer	United Kingdom
Bohoun BOUABRE Minister of State, Planning and Development Côte d'Ivoire	Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Somalia (informally), Togo
Thierry BRETON (not attending) Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry France Alternate Member Xavier MUSCA (not attending) Director General, Treasury, and Economy Politics Temporary Alternate Member Brigitte GIRARDIN Minister of Cooperation, Development and Francophone Affairs	France
Luis CARRANZA Ugarte Minister for Economy and Finance Peru	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
Palaniappan CHIDAMBARAM Minister of Finance India Alternate Member A.K. JHA Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs	Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka
James Michael FLAHERTY (not attending) Minister of Finance Canada Alternate Member (not attending) Josee VERNER (Ms.) Minister of International Cooperation and Minister for Francophone and Official Languages Temporary Alternate Member Mark CARNEY Senior Associate Deputy Minister and G7 Finance Deputy	Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Jorge GIORDANI (not attending) Minister of Planning and Development Venezuela Alternate Member (not attending) Nelson Merentes Diaz Minister of Finance Temporary Alternate Member Eudomar TOVAR Vice Minister of Finance	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Eero HEINALUOMA Minister of Finance Finland	Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden
Sri Mulyani INDRAWATI Minister of Finance Indonesia	Brunei Darussalam, Fiji, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga, Vietnam
JIN Renqing Minister of Finance China Alternate Member LI Yong Vice Minister of Finance	China
Aleksei L. KUDRIN Minister of Finance Russian Federation	Russian Federation
Okyu KWON Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Finance and Economy Korea Alternate Member Dong-soo CHIN Vice Minister of Finance and Economy	Australia, Cambodia, Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Doris LEUTHARD Federal Councillor Minister of Economic Affairs Switzerland	Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Republic of Serbia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Guido MANTEGA Minister of Finance Brazil	Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Trevor MANUEL Minister of Finance South Africa	Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Fathallah OUALALOU Minister of Finance and Privatization Morocco	Afghanistan, Algeria, Ghana, Islamic Republic of Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia
Tommaso PADOA Schioppa Minister of Economy and Finance Italy Alternate Member Mario DRAGHI Governor, Bank of Italy	Albania, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Timor-Leste
Henry PAULSON Secretary of the Treasury United States Alternate Member Josette S. SHINER Undersecretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs Department of State Temporary Alternate Member Clay LOWERY Assistant Secretary for International Affairs	United States
Didier REYNDERS Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Belgium	Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey
Heidemarie WIECZOREK-ZEUL Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation & Development Germany Alternate Member Thomas MIROW State Secretary Federal Ministry of Finance	Germany
Gerrit ZALM (not attending) Minister of Finance Netherlands Alternate Member Agnes VAN ARDENNE Minister for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine
Alberto CARRASQUILLA (CHAIRMAN) Minister of Finance and Public Credit Colombia	Colombia

Observer Organization:	Represented by:
African Development Bank	Donald Kaberuka President
Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa	Abdelaziz Khelef Director General
Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development	Abdulatif Youssef Al-Hamad Director General and Chairman of the Board
Arab Monetary Fund	Jassim Al-Mannai Director General and Chairman of the Board
Asian Development Bank	Haruhiko Kuroda President
Commonwealth Secretariat	Donald Charles McKinnon Commonwealth Secretary-General
The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf	Abdulrahman H. Al-Attiyah Secretary-General
Council of Europe Development Bank	Raphael Alomar Governor
Development Assistance Committee	Richard Manning Chairman
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	Jean Lemierre President
European Commission	Joaquin Almunia, Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Matters Member of the European Commission
European Investment Bank	Philippe Maystadt President
Food and Agriculture Organization	Jacques Diouf Director General
Inter-American Development Bank	Luis Alberto Moreno President
International Fund for Agricultural Development	Lennart Bage President
International Labour Organization	Juan Somavia Director-General
Islamic Development Bank	Ahmed Mohamed Ali President
Nordic Development Fund	Jens Lund Sorensen President
Nordic Investment Bank	Johnny Akerholm President and CEO
OPEC Fund for International Development	Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish Director-General
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development	Angel Gurría Secretary-General
United Nations	Kofi Annan Secretary General
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	Supachai Panitchpakdi Secretary-General
United Nations Development Programme	Kemal Dervis Administrator
West African Development Bank	Issa Coulibaly Acting President
World Health Organization (WHO)	Anders Nordstrom Acting Director General
World Trade Organization	Pascal Lamy Director-General

The Development Committee (DC) is a forum of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that facilitates intergovernmental consensus-building on development issues. Known formally as the Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries, the Committee was established in 1974.

The Committee's mandate is to advise the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on critical development issues and on the financial resources required to promote economic development in developing countries. Over the years, the Committee has interpreted this mandate to include trade and global environmental issues in addition to traditional development matters.

The Committee has 24 members, usually Ministers of Finance or Development, and who represent the full membership of the Bank and Fund. They are appointed by each of the countries, or groups of countries, represented on the Boards of Executive Directors of the Bank and Fund. The Chairman is selected from among the Committee's members and is assisted by an Executive Secretary elected by the Committee. The current Chairman is Minister Alberto Carrasquilla, Minister of Finance, Colombia. The current Executive Secretary is Kiyoshi Kodera.

The Development Committee meets twice a year; in the spring in tandem with the International Monetary and Financial Committee, and in the fall before the Bank-Fund Annual Meetings. The agenda for the meetings is based on issues recommended by the Chairman, the President of the Bank, the Managing Director of the Fund, and the Executive Boards of the Bank and Fund. Given the Committee's focus, the President of the Bank has a special responsibility to propose topics that he believes require the attention of the ministers.

IMF-World Bank Development Committee

September 2, 2006