Anna Gelpern
@agelpern.bsky.social
Law professor
#DebtCon #PublicDebtIsPublic #sovereigndebtforum #lawandmacro
#DebtCon #PublicDebtIsPublic #sovereigndebtforum #lawandmacro
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WB Law Justice & Development Week 2025, livestream session "Navigating the Legal Complexities of Sovereign Debt," 4 November 4PM moderated by Nicole Kearse, speakers from IMF, African regional institutes, Liberia, AfDB, @agelpern.bsky.social www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
Navigating the Legal Complexities of Sovereign Debt
LJD Week 2025 Session. Explore innovative legal strategies for sovereign debt management from the African Legal Support Facility's experience, research, and tools.
www.worldbank.org
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
WB Law Justice & Development Week 2025, livestream session "Navigating the Legal Complexities of Sovereign Debt," 4 November 4PM moderated by Nicole Kearse, speakers from IMF, African regional institutes, Liberia, AfDB, @agelpern.bsky.social www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
You said it all, Sir. Thanks to you, to @levmenand.bsky.social, Carola Binder @utaustin.bsky.social and Paul Tucker @harvardkennedy.bsky.social for illuminating this moment in the central bank independence debate @piie.com.
Things must’ve gone *very* wrong for me to end up here.
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
You said it all, Sir. Thanks to you, to @levmenand.bsky.social, Carola Binder @utaustin.bsky.social and Paul Tucker @harvardkennedy.bsky.social for illuminating this moment in the central bank independence debate @piie.com.
Goodbye, #DebtCon8 … until we meet again, because that’s what #DebtCon is about @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Goodbye, #DebtCon8 … until we meet again, because that’s what #DebtCon is about @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social
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the platform brings together academics, lawyers, and data scientists to advance debt transparency and public access to sovereign debt information.
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
the platform brings together academics, lawyers, and data scientists to advance debt transparency and public access to sovereign debt information.
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Developed through an interdisciplinary collaboration between Sovereign Debt Forum, Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law, and Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Developed through an interdisciplinary collaboration between Sovereign Debt Forum, Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law, and Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute
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Now live at #DebtCon8: the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform — the first web-based, centrally collated sovereign debt documentation and data commons.
🔗 Explore the platform here: publicdebtispublic.mdi.georgetown.edu
#DebtCon8 #SovereignDebt #DebtTransparency #PublicDebtIsPublic
🔗 Explore the platform here: publicdebtispublic.mdi.georgetown.edu
#DebtCon8 #SovereignDebt #DebtTransparency #PublicDebtIsPublic
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Now live at #DebtCon8: the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform — the first web-based, centrally collated sovereign debt documentation and data commons.
🔗 Explore the platform here: publicdebtispublic.mdi.georgetown.edu
#DebtCon8 #SovereignDebt #DebtTransparency #PublicDebtIsPublic
🔗 Explore the platform here: publicdebtispublic.mdi.georgetown.edu
#DebtCon8 #SovereignDebt #DebtTransparency #PublicDebtIsPublic
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🌍 Today at #DebtCon8 we’re launching the African Debt Database (ADD). The 1st instrument-level dataset covering both domestic and external sovereign debt across the African continent.
With @markya.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social Niccolò Rescia, Christoph Trebesch, and Ka Lok Wong.
With @markya.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social Niccolò Rescia, Christoph Trebesch, and Ka Lok Wong.
October 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🌍 Today at #DebtCon8 we’re launching the African Debt Database (ADD). The 1st instrument-level dataset covering both domestic and external sovereign debt across the African continent.
With @markya.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social Niccolò Rescia, Christoph Trebesch, and Ka Lok Wong.
With @markya.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social Niccolò Rescia, Christoph Trebesch, and Ka Lok Wong.
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📂 Explore the open-access data:
👉 africandebtdatabase.com
📄 Read the associated paper:
“Africa’s Domestic Debt Boom: Evidence from the African Debt Database”
👉 ideas.repec.org/p/aim/wpaimx...
@agelpern.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagradcfd.bsky.social
👉 africandebtdatabase.com
📄 Read the associated paper:
“Africa’s Domestic Debt Boom: Evidence from the African Debt Database”
👉 ideas.repec.org/p/aim/wpaimx...
@agelpern.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagradcfd.bsky.social
African Debt Database
The extensive database on Africa's sovereign borrowing
africandebtdatabase.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
📂 Explore the open-access data:
👉 africandebtdatabase.com
📄 Read the associated paper:
“Africa’s Domestic Debt Boom: Evidence from the African Debt Database”
👉 ideas.repec.org/p/aim/wpaimx...
@agelpern.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagradcfd.bsky.social
👉 africandebtdatabase.com
📄 Read the associated paper:
“Africa’s Domestic Debt Boom: Evidence from the African Debt Database”
👉 ideas.repec.org/p/aim/wpaimx...
@agelpern.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagradcfd.bsky.social
Thanks to Princeton SPIA in DC for hosting us on Monday, Day 1 of #DebtCon8 Starting at dawn with the existential question: Liquidity?! @princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social #SovereignDebtForum @findevlab.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Thanks to Princeton SPIA in DC for hosting us on Monday, Day 1 of #DebtCon8 Starting at dawn with the existential question: Liquidity?! @princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social #SovereignDebtForum @findevlab.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social
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It's the most wonderful time of the year....for debt geeks. @agelpern.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social and I are so excited to welcome folks to DebtCon8!
web.cvent.com/event/005168...
web.cvent.com/event/005168...
DebtCon 8.
2025 Advanced eDiscovery Institute
web.cvent.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year....for debt geeks. @agelpern.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social and I are so excited to welcome folks to DebtCon8!
web.cvent.com/event/005168...
web.cvent.com/event/005168...
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Join us for #DebtCon8, held in Washington, DC on October 13-15, 2025!
www.law.georgetown.edu/iiel/initiat...
www.law.georgetown.edu/iiel/initiat...
DebtCon
www.law.georgetown.edu
January 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Join us for #DebtCon8, held in Washington, DC on October 13-15, 2025!
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@upanizza.bsky.social #DebtCon8 is real & it’s 1glorious #DebtCon 3days 75papers 15panels 11 RTs 99speakers fr 6continents +10^6 #sovereigndebt acronyms eg #PSI #DSA #PCS #PDIP & #OMG aka #Argentina @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @robinwigglesworth.ft.com @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
@upanizza.bsky.social #DebtCon8 is real & it’s 1glorious #DebtCon 3days 75papers 15panels 11 RTs 99speakers fr 6continents +10^6 #sovereigndebt acronyms eg #PSI #DSA #PCS #PDIP & #OMG aka #Argentina @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @robinwigglesworth.ft.com @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
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Jet lagged but happy to be back in the US fior #DebCon8
Less than two weeks left ‘til the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform launch at #DebtCon8! 😮 #sovereigndebt #debtcon #sovereigndebtforum @georgetownlawofficial @upanizza.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social
Debt transparency is essential for:
✅ Democratic governance
✅ Sound economic management
✅ Properly functioning financial markets
#PublicDebtIsPublic is shifting debt information norms to establish meaningful public access to the legal and financial terms of public debt.
#SovereignDebt
✅ Democratic governance
✅ Sound economic management
✅ Properly functioning financial markets
#PublicDebtIsPublic is shifting debt information norms to establish meaningful public access to the legal and financial terms of public debt.
#SovereignDebt
October 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Jet lagged but happy to be back in the US fior #DebCon8
Less than two weeks left ‘til the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform launch at #DebtCon8! 😮 #sovereigndebt #debtcon #sovereigndebtforum @georgetownlawofficial @upanizza.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social
Debt transparency is essential for:
✅ Democratic governance
✅ Sound economic management
✅ Properly functioning financial markets
#PublicDebtIsPublic is shifting debt information norms to establish meaningful public access to the legal and financial terms of public debt.
#SovereignDebt
✅ Democratic governance
✅ Sound economic management
✅ Properly functioning financial markets
#PublicDebtIsPublic is shifting debt information norms to establish meaningful public access to the legal and financial terms of public debt.
#SovereignDebt
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Less than two weeks left ‘til the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform launch at #DebtCon8! 😮 #sovereigndebt #debtcon #sovereigndebtforum @georgetownlawofficial @upanizza.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social
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A new study by Kiel Institute on How China Collateralizes show how rather than infrastructure as collateral, it's cash collateral in escrow reserves paid by debtor's commodity exports which underpin such agreements. Governance implications.
www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...
@agelpern.bsky.social
www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...
@agelpern.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A new study by Kiel Institute on How China Collateralizes show how rather than infrastructure as collateral, it's cash collateral in escrow reserves paid by debtor's commodity exports which underpin such agreements. Governance implications.
www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...
@agelpern.bsky.social
www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...
@agelpern.bsky.social
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Hey D.C. friends! If you see billboards or posters in the District from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social demanding federal agents take off their mask, be sure to take a picture and share it!
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces?
Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
August 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hey D.C. friends! If you see billboards or posters in the District from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social demanding federal agents take off their mask, be sure to take a picture and share it!
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Totally agree, but, in the meantime, Maryland could offer free vaccines to residents of D.C.,and ask fellow pro-science states to help with the cost.
August 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Totally agree, but, in the meantime, Maryland could offer free vaccines to residents of D.C.,and ask fellow pro-science states to help with the cost.
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"There really is one crucial, unbridgeable difference between Washingtonians and other Americans: You have more power than we do—a lot more power"
Statehood for DC!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Statehood for DC!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Real Place Deserves Real Rights
Statehood for Washington, D.C., is a matter of justice.
www.theatlantic.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"There really is one crucial, unbridgeable difference between Washingtonians and other Americans: You have more power than we do—a lot more power"
Statehood for DC!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Statehood for DC!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Micromanaging the day-to-day affairs of D.C. is not what voters elected the president and members of Congress in their home states to accomplish.
We need D.C. statehood NOW: dcstatehoodnow.org
We need D.C. statehood NOW: dcstatehoodnow.org
August 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Micromanaging the day-to-day affairs of D.C. is not what voters elected the president and members of Congress in their home states to accomplish.
We need D.C. statehood NOW: dcstatehoodnow.org
We need D.C. statehood NOW: dcstatehoodnow.org
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Take it from the citizens of DC. This is all a distraction, and another power grab that threatens the health of our democracy.
op: @washingtonpost.com
op: @washingtonpost.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Take it from the citizens of DC. This is all a distraction, and another power grab that threatens the health of our democracy.
op: @washingtonpost.com
op: @washingtonpost.com
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“We see Chinese lenders expanding and adapting standard market tools to make exceptionally risky loans safer,” said Anna Gelpern, a Georgetown Law Professor and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “ @agelpern.bsky.social www.aiddata.org/blog/chinese...
Out of public sight, China’s state-backed lenders secure priority repayment from emerging economies with cash collateral
New report and cache of Chinese debt contracts reveal that the commodity export revenues of developing countries are routed to offshore bank accounts, raising fiscal governance and debt transparency c...
www.aiddata.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“We see Chinese lenders expanding and adapting standard market tools to make exceptionally risky loans safer,” said Anna Gelpern, a Georgetown Law Professor and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “ @agelpern.bsky.social www.aiddata.org/blog/chinese...
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"How China Collateralizes" ist eine Zusammenarbeit unserer Autor*innen Christoph Trebesch, Sebastian Horn und Paulina Kintzinger mit @agelpern.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @piie.com, Omar Haddad und Bradley Parks AidData @wm.edu
ifw-kiel.de/de/publikati...
ifw-kiel.de/de/publikati...
China verlangt umfassende Sicherheiten für Kredite an Entwicklungsländer
Chinas Staatsbanken verlangen für Kredite an Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländer oft umfangreiche Sicherheiten, die über die typische Absicherung zwischen Staaten hinausgehen und den Anforderungen priva...
ifw-kiel.de
June 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"How China Collateralizes" ist eine Zusammenarbeit unserer Autor*innen Christoph Trebesch, Sebastian Horn und Paulina Kintzinger mit @agelpern.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @piie.com, Omar Haddad und Bradley Parks AidData @wm.edu
ifw-kiel.de/de/publikati...
ifw-kiel.de/de/publikati...
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DebtNerds drinks at the very cool Ground Control in Paris with @agelpern.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @theomaret.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
DebtNerds drinks at the very cool Ground Control in Paris with @agelpern.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @theomaret.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social
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Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”
*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”
*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
June 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”
*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”
*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
Huge thanks to @taicollab.bsky.social and our amazing community for hosting the first sneak peak preview of the #publicdebispublic platform @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @massivedatagu.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social #sovereigndebt Stay tuned for pilot demo at #DebtCon8
May 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Huge thanks to @taicollab.bsky.social and our amazing community for hosting the first sneak peak preview of the #publicdebispublic platform @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @massivedatagu.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social #sovereigndebt Stay tuned for pilot demo at #DebtCon8