Taking Stock of the Sovereign Debt Landscape: Lessons Learned and Charting a Better Path Forward

April 15, 9:00 – 11:00 AM; by invitation only | Washington D.C.

Debt vulnerabilities across developing countries remain acute, yet political momentum for reform has stalled even as technical consensus on priorities has quietly grown. Part one of this roundtable on the sidelines of the 2026 Spring Meetings, FES New York, the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC) invite participants to take stock of current reform proposals, drawing on a background paper prepared by CGD to map the recent landscape of debt vulnerabilities and reform proposals. The second half of the session will be forward-looking and strategic, aiming to build convergence around a few concrete initiatives that could realistically advance at the October Annual Meetings in Bangkok and under the G20 UK Presidency in 2027. The conversation is intended as a bridge between technical analysis and political strategy.