The second edition of the Public Debt Management Conference, promoted and organised by the Public Debt Management (PDM) Network - the international network for the development and dissemination of best practices in sovereign debt management, fostered by the Department of the Treasury (Directorate II - Public Debt), the OECD and the World Bank - took place on 26 and 27 May, in Rome.

The first edition of the Conference took place in Paris, at the OECD headquarters, on 4 and 5 September 2019.

Hosted this year by the Italian Treasury, the international conference was attended by around 250 international guests from all continents for deepening, in-presence and in remote modality, key issues regarding the management of public debt, with a specific focus on its sustainability, also from an environmental perspective. Public debt managers, representatives of international institutions, experts from the academic and research domain as well as the authors of the 18 works selected as the outcome of a call for papers launched by the Public Debt Network last year, participated to the debate.

A number of contributions focusing on specific national contexts were presented, as case studies concerning, among others, the liquidity of the secondary government bond market, the development of local currency bond markets and the effects of the adoption of unconventional measures to cope with the pandemic.

Speakers included the Director-General of the Italian Treasury, Alessandro Rivera, the Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD, Yoshiki Takeuchi, the Practice Manager of the World Bank, Anderson Silva, the Director of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Carmine Di Noia, and the Director of Public Debt and the Director General of Public Debt, Davide Iacovoni.

The Conference Proceedings will be edited and published at a later stage.