IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings 2024 Curtain Raiser

Twice a year, the IMF’s managing director kicks off the events of the Annual and Spring Meetings with a curtain raiser speech in which she looks back on the year’s most pressing macroeconomic developments and challenges and outlines what’s in store for the world’s markets. When the head of the International Monetary Fund speaks, the world listens. To open the 2024 Spring Meetings, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva had a lot to bring to the dais: geopolitical tensions driving economies apart, lingering aftershocks from the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological decay, ongoing wars, a sluggish recovery.

But she also offered hope. Her powerful speech offered policymakers a simple choice in shaping the outcome of our present decade: Economies can move farther apart and foster the tepid twenties… or adopt much-needed reforms to shift to a sustainable economy that will bring about the transformational twenties.

To evoke the power of her vision of potential futures, Creative Solutions created an accompanying video presentation with historical footage, engaging visuals, vibrant sight-readable charts, and bespoke animations that synchronized with her language to underscore the true portent of her proposal.