EMF advocates for increased dialogue between government and corporate leaders through its global forum events.

The EMF commissions policy experts to write background papers, which provide a starting point for forum discussions.

Participants come from both the private and public sectors to engage in open dialogue and implement solutions that will benefit emerging market economies.

[6][7][8][9][10] Past events have taken place in Jakarta, Vietnam, Mumbai, Hanoi, Bogota, Montevideo, Oxford, Switzerland, Morocco, South Africa, and other locations.

Other participants include Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (former World Bank managing director, former foreign minister of Nigeria, and Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year), Arun Shourie (Indian Parliament and former minister of telecommunications, commerce and privatization),[17] Johannes F. Linn (Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; senior resident fellow, Emerging Markets Forum; and former vice president for Europe and Central Asia of the World Bank.