The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will host the 26th SAARCFINANCE Group Meeting, 9th SAARCFINANCE Governors’ Symposium and 42nd Asian Clearing Union (ACU) Board of Directors Meeting on June 18-19, 2013 in Islamabad.
Governors of central banks and senior government officials from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka will participate.
SBP will also organise its most prestigious annual event, Zahid Husain Memorial Lecture on June 18, 2013 in Islamabad, where Prof Ha-Joon Chang from Cambridge University will deliver a lecture on “Rethinking Role of the State in Economic Development”. Pakistan will also assume the chair of ACU Board of Directors at the 42nd Meeting of the board, scheduled to be held on June 19, 2013.