Bruegel Annual Meetings 2019

08.30-09.00

09.00-10.15

LAUNCH OF THE BRUEGEL MEMOS TO THE NEW EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP

Chair: Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Brussels correspondent, The New York Times

Zsolt Darvas, Senior Fellow

Maria Demertzis, Interim Director

Alicia García-Herrero, Senior Fellow

J. Scott Marcus, Senior Fellow

Simone Tagliapietra, Senior Fellow

Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director

10.15-10.30

10.30-12:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS

10.30-12:00

A. How can Europe’s economy thrive in the digital age?

Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior Fellow

Claire Bury, Deputy Director-General, European Commission, DG CONNECT

Joakim Reiter, Group External Affairs Director, Vodafone

Victoria Roig, Head of the transformation office of Santander Digital and Group Executive Vice-President

10.30-12:00

B. Making carbon pricing work

Chair: Georg Zachmann, Senior Fellow

Brigitte Knopf, Secretary General, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change

Lapo Pistelli, Executive Vice President, Eni

Jasper Wesseling, Deputy director-general, Tax and customs policy and legislation, Ministry of Finance, the Netherlands

10.30-12:00

C. Europe's trade policy

Chair: André Sapir, Senior Fellow

Alicia García-Herrero, Senior Fellow

Yi Huang, Associate Professor & Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, The Graduate Institute, Geneva

Kate Kalutkiewicz, Senior Trade Representative, US Mission to the EU

Bernd Lange, Chair of the European Parliament's committee on International Trade

Reza Moghadam, Chief Economic Advisor, Morgan Stanley

12.00-13.00

13.00-14.00

WHICH PRIORITIES FOR THE NEW EU LEADERSHIP?

Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Chairman of the Board, Société Générale

Sven Giegold, Member of the European Parliament

Danuta Hübner, Member of the European Parliament

Päivi Leino-Sandberg, Professor of Transnational European Law, University of Helsinki

14:00-14:30

KEYNOTE: Truths about trade

Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director

Cecilia Malmström, Assar Gabrielsson professor at Göteborg School of Economics; Former EU Trade commissioner

14.30-16.00

AI, ROBOTS AND PLATFORM WORKERS: WHAT FUTURE FOR EUROPEAN WELFARE STATES?

Chair: J. Scott Marcus, Senior Fellow

Jamie Heywood, Regional General Manager, UK, Northern & Eastern Europe, Uber

Ann Mettler, Director for Europe, Breakthrough Energy

Alexander Stubb, Director, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute

Laura Tyson, Director - Institute for Business and Social Impact, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley

16.00-16.30

16:30-18:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS

16.30-18.00

A. Priorities for Europe’s monetary union

Chair: Zsolt Darvas, Senior Fellow

Laurence Boone, Chief Economist, OECD

Vítor Constâncio, Former Vice President, ECB

Ashoka Mody, Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Thomas Wieser, Non-resident fellow

16.30-18.00

B. Enhancing Europe’s economic sovereignty (Joint panel with ECFR)

Chair: Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Fellow

Pierre Heilbronn, Vice President, Policy and Partnerships, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Mark Leonard, Director, ECFR

Maria Spyraki, Member of the European Parliament

Sabine Weyand, Director-General for Trade, European Commission

16.30-18.00

C. EU-Africa partnership (Organised with CGD)

Chair: Shada Islam, Director Europe & Geopolitics, Friends of Europe

Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President, European Investment Bank

Mikaela Gavas, Co-Director Development Cooperation in Europe and Senior Policy Fellow, CGD

Stefano Manservisi, Director-General for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission

Harriet Sena Siaw-Boateng, Ambassador of Ghana to the EU

Koen Vervaeke, Managing Director for Africa, European External Action Service

18.00-22.00

Bruegel annual dinner (for Bruegel members and selected guests)

Chair: Jean-Claude Trichet, Honorary Chairman of Bruegel

Jörg Kukies, Member of the board

Open only to Bruegel members and selected guests

08.30-09.00

09.00-10.00

How much further reform needed for the new financial sector architecture?

Chair: Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow

Niels Brab, Head of Government Relations, Deutsche Börse Group

Baroness Kishwer Falkner of Margravine, Member, Bank of England Enforcement Decision-Making Committee and Member of the House of Lords

Korbinian Ibel, Director General - Microprudential Supervision IV, ECB

Erik F. Nielsen, Group Chief Economist, Unicredit

10.00-10.15

10.15-11.15

Monetary policy in the new normal

Chair: Maria Demertzis, Interim Director

Grégory Claeys, Senior Fellow

José M. González-Páramo, Member of the board

Lucrezia Reichlin, Professor of Economics at London Business School

11.15-11.30

11.30-13.00

Designing a competition policy fit for Europe's needs; evolution or revolution?

Chair: Mathew Heim, Visiting Fellow

Georg Boettcher, Chief Counsel Competition at Siemens

Kris Dekeyser, Director, Policy and Strategy, European Commission, DG COMP

Jérôme Delpech, Transformation Leader, Global Transformation, Sanofi

Philipp Steinberg, Director-General of Economic Policy, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany

13.00-14.00