The two-day event, held on December 3–4, 2025, focuses on emerging frameworks for managing and resolving heavy and overdue sovereign debts. Discussions cover debt structures, IMF policies, and multidisciplinary approaches spanning macroeconomics, legal, and financial perspectives.
Organized by the IMF’s Regional Office in Riyadh in cooperation with the Fund’s Center for Economics and Finance and hosted by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the forum is expected to pave the way for a ministerial-level meeting in 2026.
Invited experts will provide in-depth analyses of debt restructuring, reviewing the global architecture of sovereign debt, lending policies to countries in arrears, financial guarantees, and the IMF’s role in such processes. Two key frameworks, the Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) and the comparative debt restructuring framework in regional countries, will be critically assessed.
Participants will also share recent experiences in sovereign debt restructuring, highlighting performance evaluation, macroeconomic outlooks, optimal timing of operations, legal developments, and successful strategies to overcome structural constraints.