Bangkok, Thailand
2026 World Bank & International Monetary Fund
Annual Meetings
The Annual and Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty eradication, economic development, and aid effectiveness.
YDC Delegates interact with experts from around the world while attending IMF-WBG Summit sessions and participating in meetings with stakeholders. The IMF-WBG Annual Meetings are an exclusive opportunity for Canadian youth to observe and learn from high-level discussions on international trade, finance, and comparative public policy.
Levi Mitchell, Delegate Liaison
Levi Mitchell is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa, studying environmental sustainability with a focus on remote sensing and rainforest conservation. Driven by a deep passion for environmental advocacy, he works at Environment and Climate Change Canada as a Junior Economist in the Economic Analysis Directorate. Previously, Levi was a Project Lead in the NASA DEVELOP Program, contributing to Earth observation research supporting Caribou conservation in Alaska. He also contributed to the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s Science Panel for the Congo Basin as a GIS consultant. He has gained leadership experience in British Columbia as a crew leader of a reforestation team that planted over 3 million trees across multiple summers. In addition, he led a type 3 wildfire-fighting crew during a provincial state of emergency in British Columbia. Levi was an observer delegate to the UNFCCC’s COP28 in 2023, representing Salve Regina University.
Alexis Godefroid, Communications Coordinator
Alexis Godefroid is a Finance and International Affairs student at HEC Montréal, interested in where geopolitics and capital markets meet. He spent the past summer at RBC Royal Trust in Montreal working in wealth management. He previously worked in communications as an intern at Nanalyze, a technology and investment research publication, where he wrote on international equities and emerging technologies. He has also worked on protection mandates at the Curateur public du Québec and had his first exposure to cross border business as a logistics intern in Johannesburg.
At HEC Montréal, Alexis sits on the board of directors of Coop HEC Montréal and on its audit and finance committee, and directed the school's Forum of International Affairs, a student led conference bringing diplomats and practitioners to campus. He is bilingual in French and English and is completing an exchange semester at Thammasat Business School in Bangkok, the city hosting this year's Annual Meetings.
As Communications Coordinator for the Young Diplomats of Canada delegation to the 2026 WBG-IMF Annual Meetings, Alexis is following how geopolitical fragmentation is reshaping capital flows and development finance, and what that shift means for Canada's economic positioning and for the generation now entering the field.
Anta is a Strategy and Transformation Consultant at EY Canada, where she has worked on projects at the intersection of innovation, growth, and organisational resilience for financial institutions. She holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and is currently pursuing an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures at Imperial College London, developing a multidisciplinary perspective on energy access and the energy transition. Her master's thesis examines how the mispricing of risk influences the cost of capital and valuation dynamics of energy infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs).
Translating this research into practice, and drawing on her African background, she also serves as a Research Assistant with the Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme, where she supports the financing modelling of National Energy Compact implementation in an East African country under Mission 300.
At the 2026 World Bank Group/IMF Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Anta hopes to deepen her understanding of debt sustainability and how private capital can be mobilised to close the energy access gap, while identifying how Canada can respond to its own objectives and needs, and supporting innovative approaches to development finance on a global scale.
Anta Samb, Engagement Coordinator
Afreen Delvi has built her career following the movement of money—and understanding what it can reveal about security, governance, and the strength of our institutions. A Canadian financial intelligence and financial crime professional, her experience spans complex investigations, cross-border intelligence cooperation, public policy, financial integrity, and institutional transformation. She has worked across government and the financial sector, contributed to international cooperation and capacity-building initiatives, and briefed senior decision-makers on complex financial crime and policy issues.
As a Young Diplomats of Canada delegate to the 2026 IMF–World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Afreen is interested in a bigger question: how do we build a global financial system that supports growth and development while protecting its integrity? Her interests include illicit financial flows and their impact on development, financial-sector resilience, AI and emerging technologies, and Canada's economic relationships with developing and emerging economies.
She brings a practitioner’s perspective to these conversations, but also a willingness to challenge her own assumptions. Afreen believes meaningful international engagement starts with listening—particularly to perspectives that are often underrepresented in global decision-making—and understanding how the same economic challenge can look very different depending on which side of the table you are sitting on.
Afreen Delvi, Engagement Coordinator
Kobe Li is a student, nonprofit leader, and healthcare innovator working at the intersection of health access, technology, and youth advocacy. He is completing a Bachelor of Health Sciences in Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences at McMaster University, where his research and engineering work focuses on assistive and rehabilitative technology for patients living with stroke, multiple sclerosis, and ataxia. He is a 2025 recipient of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award.
He co-founded 20/20 Mission, a nonprofit that collects used eyeglasses and delivers free eye exams in communities without reliable access to vision care. To date the organization has collected 8,000+ pairs of glasses and served 1,500+ patients through clinics in Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Ghana. He also founded the ElevAsian All-Star Showcase, a basketball event and anti-racism advocacy platform built for Asian athletes, which drew 500+ attendees and 15+ sponsors in its first year.
Kobe's leadership spans research, engineering, and media. He leads the business and research subteams for McMaster's Biomedical Engineering Technical Team, serves as VP External Relations for the McMaster Engineering Society, and was the previous Video Commissioner for the Engineering Student Societies' Council of Ontario, and organization representing 52,000+ engineering students.
At the 2026 WBG/IMF Annual Meetings, Kobe hopes to deepen his understanding of AI governance, development finance, and global health policy, while contributing youth-driven perspective on technology equity.
Kobe Li, Research Coordinator
Samar Busuri is an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in Toronto, driven by a deep passion for affordable housing, poverty reduction, and the role of private capital in advancing equitable economic development. She has experience in commercial due diligence, market sizing, and growth modeling within Bain's Private Equity practice, and has previously worked within Bain's Social Impact practice. Prior to Bain, Samar worked in affordable housing strategy at TD Bank, where she researched Toronto's housing landscape and assessed how private capital can be mobilized alongside public investment to address gaps in housing access. Outside of work, Samar sits on the Build Advisory Committee of Habitat for Humanity Halton-Mississauga-Dufferin, where she advises the CEO on land acquisition, project assessment, and development planning for affordable housing builds, and is currently supporting Habitat's fundraising team on donor research and strategy development. Samar is honoured to represent Canadian youth at the WBG-IMF Annual Meetings, where she hopes to contribute to the international dialogue on affordable housing as a driver of poverty reduction and shared prosperity.
Samar Busuri, Research Coordinator