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Bruegel’s Annual Conference

Bruegel's Annual Conference is a closed-door event with three panel discussions on banks and capital markets, growth perspectives, and monetary policy and central banking.

Date: September 8, 2015, 9:00 am Topic:

AM_Logo_small2This event is part of Bruegel’s Annual Meetings which offer a mixture of public sessions and restricted workshops, where Bruegel’s scholars, members and stakeholders can discuss the policy challenges facing the European economy. In 2015 these events are also part of Bruegel’s 10th anniversary celebrations, for which we are organising a series of events in the capitals of our member states. These debates, talks and conferences will bring crucial European topics to audiences across the continent.

Schedule

Sep 08, 2015

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome

Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director

9:15-11:00

Banks and Capital Markets in the EU: Back to Stability and Growth? [Restricted Panel Discussion]

Chair: Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow

Luc Frieden, Vice Chairman Deutsche Bank

Joanne Kellermann, Former Member, Single Resolution Board

Rachel Lomax, Member of the Board

Dirk Schoenmaker, Non-Resident fellow

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00

Which growth perspectives for Europe? [Restricted Panel Discussion]

Chair: Mario Monti, Founding president

Wassim Chourbaji, Vice-President, Government Affairs EMENA, Qualcomm

Anna Ekström, Minister for Upper Secondary School and Adult Education, Sweden

Alvaro Nadal, State Secretary, Head of the Economic Bureau of the Prime Minister, Spain

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Fellow

13:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:45

What Future for Europe's Social Models? [Public Lunch Debate: See separate event page for details of this public session]

Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director

Tito Boeri, President of the Italian National Social Security Institute, INPS

Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs

15:00-16:45

Monetary Policy and Central Banking: A Global Outlook [Restricted Panel Discussion]

Chair: Jean-Claude Trichet, Honorary Chairman of Bruegel

Zsolt Darvas, Senior Fellow

Otmar Issing, President, Center for Financial Studies

Paul Sheard, Chief Global Economist, Standard & Poor's

Sayuri Shirai, Professor, Keio University and Visiting Scholar, ADBI

Speakers

Wassim Chourbaji

Vice-President, Government Affairs EMENA, Qualcomm

Zsolt Darvas

Senior Fellow

Anna Ekström

Minister for Upper Secondary School and Adult Education, Sweden

Luc Frieden

Vice Chairman Deutsche Bank

Otmar Issing

President, Center for Financial Studies

Joanne Kellermann

Former Member, Single Resolution Board

Rachel Lomax

Member of the Board

Mario Monti

Founding president

Alvaro Nadal

State Secretary, Head of the Economic Bureau of the Prime Minister, Spain

Jean Pisani-Ferry

Senior Fellow

Dirk Schoenmaker

Non-Resident fellow

Paul Sheard

Chief Global Economist, Standard & Poor's

Jean-Claude Trichet

Honorary Chairman of Bruegel

Nicolas Véron

Senior Fellow

Guntram B. Wolff

Former Director

Location & Contact

Les Brigittines, Petite rue des Brigittines

Matilda Sevón

[email protected] +32 2 227 4212