Argentine President Javier Milei is set to take on his first international trip of 2025. He will travel to the United States on Friday night in order to attend the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20. After that, he will move on to Switzerland, where he will participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The Argentine president is scheduled to have a slew of meetings across his two trips, including sitdowns with International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Kristalina Georgieva, the CEO of Coca-Cola, and various politicians. He will also receive several awards.
Presidential sources said that Milei’s flight will depart at 11.59 p.m. on Friday and will arrive in Washington, DC, on Saturday at 10 a.m. EST. That same day he will participate in the Official Hispanic Inaugural Gala, where we will receive the LWS Award 2025-Titan of Economic Reform.
On Sunday, Milei will first visit the Milken Institute at 12.30 p.m., a “nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life.” Following that, he will get together with Georgieva at 2.30 p.m. for what is arguably the most important meeting of his trip.
In the evening, the libertarian economist will attend the 1775 Inaugural Gala at 8 p.m. He will give a speech and receive the 2025 Champion of Economic Freedom award. His final activity of the day will be at the Latino Inagural Ball, an event organized by the America First Policy Institute and the Republican National Hispanic Assembly. He will arrive at 10 p.m. and deliver a brief speech.
On Monday, Milei will take part in the activities related to Donald Trump’s inauguration as United States president. There will be a religious ceremony at 10 a.m. followed by the official inauguration at 11.30 a.m. That evening, he will attend the Starlight Ball.
A trip to Davos and more awards
President Milei will leave the U.S. Tuesday at 10 p.m. bound for Zurich in order to participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday at 6 a.m. CET. His first activity will be an interview at 1 p.m. with Bloomberg, an outlet specializing in financial news.
Milei’s busiest day will be Thursday, January 23. He will kick off at 6.15 a.m. with a 30-minute speech at the World Economic Forum, followed by a meeting with Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey at 7 a.m.
He will receive his third award of the trip at 8 a.m., presented in this case by the Country Strategy Dialogue on Argentina. Milei will speak and later have a working meeting with executives of companies and holdings from different sectors and countries.
On the same day, he will receive his fourth and final award. The Liberal Institute, a classical liberal think tank founded in 1979 in Zurich, Switzerland, will award him the Röpke Prize for Civil Society.
Milei will return to Argentina on Thursday on a flight scheduled to leave at 5:30 p.m.