Anna Gelpern

Professor @GeorgetownLaw, Nonresident Sr Fellow @PIIE, writing about international finance, sovereign debt, regulation. Dog, views, and errors all mine.

[Anna Gelpern @AGelpern]

DC should be a state. Pass it on.

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

@PeteButtigieg DC should be a state. Pass it on.

[Anna Gelpern @AGelpern]

Bravo to the UK, and the doc is in our #PublicDebtIsPiblic pipeline… watch this space https://t.co/I4IUF5hZuz

[David Mihalyi @davidmihalyi]

Next level transparency in debt restructurings. UK just published their agreement with Sri Lanka. https://t.co/iC0Ktv7zWs

[𝙐𝙜𝙤 𝙋𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙯𝙖 @upanizza]

According to the IMF table below, as of June 2025, 60% of Argentina’s external public debt was owed to lenders with preferred creditor status.
https://t.co/iKonxXmPpK
2/4

[Latindadd in English @Latindadd_Eng]

🔵 Following #FfD4, the #IMF and #WorldBank Annual Meetings, and #UNCTAD16, we held our workshop on public debt transparency, which explored ways to advance the ‘Seville Commitment’ in terms of shared responsibility for increasing transparency and accountability, from borrowers and lenders, as well as the role of all stakeholders, as a key component for a systemic debt architecture reform.

Kick-off speakers:
🔹 @AGelpern
🔹 Penelope Hawkins
🔹 @davidmihalyi
🔹 @RamiroTosi
🔹 @JasonBraganza1

[Peterson Institute @PIIE]

NOW: Conference on central bank independence in practice, discussing evidence, accountability, legal considerations, financial regulation, & more.
Featuring @LHSummers, @JohnHCochrane, Richard Clarida, Roger Ferguson Jr., Daniel Tarullo, & more.
Watch: https://t.co/q9lPuheB7b

[Anna Gelpern @AGelpern]

@Kevin_Carey_WB @nkearse2016 🙏 Sierra Leone, actually - Liberia was a typo…

[Anna Gelpern @AGelpern]

#Debttransparency awkward. It will come out… 🤷‍♀️ and be double embarrassing. #PublicDebtIsPublic

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

What?

"Argentine officials have signed a non-disclosure agreement with the US which prohibits him from sharing any specifics"

The terms of the Exchange Stabilization Fund's support for Argentina won't be public?

1/

[Peterson Institute @PIIE]

Chinese creditors have in recent decades ventured into risky sovereign lending at scale, and in the process they have expanded and adapted what might be the most robust model yet of sovereign cash flow control, @AGelpern writes in @FT.
https://t.co/WJdMibtQP6

[Peterson Institute @PIIE]

NEW: Chinese creditors have in recent decades ventured into risky sovereign lending at scale, and in the process they have expanded and adapted what might be the most robust model yet of sovereign cash flow control, @AGelpern writes in @FT.
https://t.co/I1NuGvydBj

[Anna Gelpern @AGelpern]

Credit to @Ch_Trebesch #BradParks @AidData #SebastianHorn and #PaulinaKintzinger @kielinstitute #OmarHaddad @GeorgetownLaw and the awesome QC team @PIIE 🙏 @PDIP_PublicDebt

[Peterson Institute @PIIE]

NEW: Chinese creditors have in recent decades ventured into risky sovereign lending at scale, and in the process they have expanded and adapted what might be the most robust model yet of sovereign cash flow control, @AGelpern writes in @FT.
https://t.co/I1NuGvydBj

[Anna Gelpern @AGelpern]

@ChayuDamsinghe @DebtCon8GU @tracyalloway We even made a little fire :-)

[Chayu Damsinghe @ChayuDamsinghe]

Was a brilliant conference and many hats tipped to @AGelpern and all who organized + @LaynaMosley @upanizza Martin Kessler who keep doing this year after year!

[Raj @R_R_Prabu]

Kudos to @AGelpern, @LaynaMosley, @upanizza for yet another fantastic #DebtCon8

[Cristián Cuevas @cgcuevasv]

my favorite conference of the year

[Anna Gelpern @AGelpern]

Goodbye, #DebtCon8 … until we meet again, because that’s what #DebtCon is about @GeorgetownLaw @DebtCon8GU @LaynaMosley @upanizza @davidmihalyi @TheoMaret @ChayuDamsinghe @GtownLawIIEL

[Pablo Nemiña @pnemina]

🗨️ Estimulante intercambio en la #DebtCon8 en un Panel sobre Deuda y Cambio Climático en @GeorgetownLaw
🙋En mi caso, un análisis de los créditos verdes (RSF) del #FMI
✅ Financiamiento limitado, pero adaptado a particularidades nacionales

[Chayu Damsinghe @ChayuDamsinghe]

@BrettEHouse @DebtCon8GU @nicolas_veron @_amandads_ @BellonMatthieu @flandreaumarc @CorinaRebegea @MalahooForteMP @FranklinDVrieze @IISD_ELP @OpenBudgets @DamonSilvers @YufanHuang07 @cgcuevasv @dannybradlow The closing panel at the absolutely amazing @DebtCon8GU on the changing international financial architecture, chaired by @MarinaZucker, with @V20Group's Sara Jane Ahmed, @Martin_M_Guzman, @UNCTAD's Penelope Hawkins, @emi_alliance's Abby McKenna, and @Lazard's Mark Walker.

[Chayu Damsinghe @ChayuDamsinghe]

@BrettEHouse @DebtCon8GU @nicolas_veron @_amandads_ @BellonMatthieu @flandreaumarc @CorinaRebegea @MalahooForteMP @FranklinDVrieze @IISD_ELP @OpenBudgets @DamonSilvers At the final parallel sessions, at session 5C on creditor coordination chaired by Boston University's Tianyi Wu, with Public University of Navarre's Idoia Aguirre, @YufanHuang07, @cgcuevasv, FERDI's Matthieu Boussichas, and @dannybradlow

[Chayu Damsinghe @ChayuDamsinghe]

@BrettEHouse @DebtCon8GU @nicolas_veron @_amandads_ @BellonMatthieu @flandreaumarc At the 10th plenary at @DebtCon8GU on the interaction of debt and parliamentary institutions, chaired by @CorinaRebegea with @MalahooForteMP, @FranklinDVrieze, @IISD_ELP's Yanne Horas, @OpenBudgets' Elena Mondo, and @DamonSilvers

[Chayu Damsinghe @ChayuDamsinghe]

@BrettEHouse Sitting in on Parallel session 4b at @DebtCon8GU on debt and money, chaired by @nicolas_veron with @_amandads_, Harvard Law's Mengyi Wang, Uni of Luxembourg's Lukas Spielberger, @BellonMatthieu, and @flandreaumarc

[Chayu Damsinghe @ChayuDamsinghe]

Parallel session 3C at #DebtCon8 is on debt and development, chaired by @BrettEHouse and the World Bank's Manuela Francisco, with the World Bank's Franziska Ohnsorge, QMU's Sida Özler, Hunter College's Armen Khederlarian, Tunis El Mar University's Hela Khalladi, and Marin Ferry