Founded in 1991, the OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management is a collaborative platform that brings together public debt managers, central bankers, and other financial policy makers from advanced and developing economies. The goal is to facilitate discussions on best practices, share experiences, and develop policies for effective government debt management and securities markets.
OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management
The OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management is a roundtable meeting for public debt managers from the OECD area (as well as regulators, central bankers, other financial policy makers and, on occasion, private sector participants) to meet with their counterparts from non-OECD countries.
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Focus areas include:
Undertake analytical work and comparative research to improve understanding of government securities markets, including liquidity conditions, investor base and investor behaviour.
Explore and improve knowledge on the complex relationship between debt management, fiscal policies, and monetary policies.
Monitor and assess the implications of climate change, sustainable finance and the digitalisation of finance for public debt management and government securities markets.
The Global Forum has grown in significance at a time of globally increasing public debt, the rise of socio-economic and climate challenges as well as advances in technologies that cut across traditional markets and policy areas. The Forum is the best placed to explore emerging challenges, and promote leading good practices promote to produce better policies in the field of public debt management.
The Global Forum is organised under the aegis of the OECD Working Party on Debt Management and is supported by the Government of Japan. 62 countries participated in the Forum’s 31st meeting on 4-5 June 2024. We will soon be sharing the dates for next year's meeting.
For more than three decades now the Global Forum has brought together high-level sovereign debt managers from emerging markets and advanced economies to support the critical function they play in government. Today, the Global Forum is a reference point for international co-operation, exchange and guidance in identifying leading practices and establishing a robust toolkit for government debt management and securities markets.
Mr Yoshiki Takeuchi
Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD
On the occasion of opening of the 30th Global Forum on Public Debt Management
Contact us: PublicDebt@oecd.org
Related policy issues
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Prudent public debt management is critical for well-functioning national financial systems and helps to reinforce sound fiscal and monetary policies. However, public debt portfolios, both because of their size and composition, can generate substantial risk to countries’ balance sheets and overall financial stability. The OECD promotes good practices in public debt and risk management and provides recommendations to assist policy makers in their efforts to adopt and implement prudent debt management policies.Learn more