Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

“Giving International Finance an Adequate Architecture”

January 18-19, 2012
Mexico City, Mexico

Venue : Hilton Mexico City Reforma Hotel - “Don Diego 3 and 4” rooms,

Av. Juarez 70, Col. Centro, Mexico City 06010

AGENDA

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

08:30-09:00

Welcome coffee and registration

09:00-09:15

Opening remarks

09:15-13:15

SESSION I - EMERGING MARKETS CRISIS OF THE 1990’S AND EUROZONE TURMOIL: NATURE, SCOPE OF ADJUSTMENT AND OUTCOME

Chair : Guillermo Ortiz, Chairman, Grupo Financiero Banorte, Mexico,

• Pablo Guidotti, Professor of Economics, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina,
• Jens Nystedt, Portfolio Manager, Moore Capital, UK,
• Carlo Monticelli, Head of International Financial Relations, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy,
• Changyong Rhee, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank, Philippines,
• Michael Callaghan, Executive Director, Macroeconomic Group-International, Australian Treasury,

11:00-11:20

Coffee Break

13:15-14:45

Lunch
Venue: “Don Diego 2” room

SESSION II - CRISIS PREVENTION, CRISIS LENDING, CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN A CONTEXT OF NEW CREDITORS NATIONS

Chair : Ousmène J. Mandeng, Managing Director, Head of Investment Policy Advisory, FICC, Financial Public Sector Institutions, UBS,

• Grigori Marchenko, Governor, National Bank of Kazakhstan,
• Charles Collyns, Assistant Secretary for International Finance, US Department of the Treasury,
• Arend Kapteyn, Chief Economist, Emerging Markets, Brevan Howard,
• Romain Rancière, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics, France,
• Mario Blejer, First Vice-Chairman, Banco Hipotecario, Argentina,

16:15-16:30

Coffee Break

20:00-22:30

Dinner

Keynote Speech - Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics, NYU, Chairman, RGE, USA,

Tuesday, January 19, 2012

08:30-09:00

Welcome coffee

9:00-10:45

SESSION III - DO WE HAVE AN ADEQUATE FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE?

Chair : Ramon Fernandez, Director-General, Directorate General of the Treasury, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, France,

• Jose-Luis Guerrero, Co-Head Global Markets, HSBC,
• Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD,
• Aaron Tornell, Professor of Economics, UCLA, USA,
• Wei Benhua, Director, Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office, Singapore,
• Angel Ubide, Director of Global Economics, Tudor Investment Corporation,

10:45-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:005

SESSION IV - POLICY PANEL : THE AFTERMATH OF THE EUROZONE CRISIS – A MAJOR DISRUPTION OF THE POST BRETTON WOODS REGIME ?

Chair : Gerardo Rodríguez, Deputy Secretary of Finance, Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico,

• Siddharth Tiwari, Director, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, International Monetary Fund,
• Julio Velarde, Governor, Central Reserve Bank of Peru,
• Maarten Verwey, Deputy Director General, DG ECFIN, European Commission,
• John Murray, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada,

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Enhancing the institutional framework for the euro

January 23, 2012
Brüssels, Belgium

Venue : Cercle Royal Gaulois Artistique et Littéraire

Rue de la Loi,
5-1000 Brüssels,
Phone: +322 500 10 80 - www.cerclegaulois.be

AGENDA

Wednesday, January 23, 2012

09:00-09:15

Registration

09:15-09:30

Welcoming Remarks by :
Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, Euro50 Group
Josep Borrell , President, European University Institute

09:30-11:00

SESSION I - THE DESIGN OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AFTER THE DECEMBER 9th, 2011 EUROPEAN COUNCIL SUMMIT: AN APPRAISAL

Chair : Alexandre Lamfalussy, Former General Manager, BIS; Former President, European Monetary Institute,

• Thomas Mayer,, Global Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank,
• Paul de Grauwe, Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium,
• Othmar Karas, Member of the European Parliament,
• John Lipsky, Former Deputy Managing Director, IMF,
• Jean-Dominique Giuliani, President, Fondation Robert Schuman.

11:00-11:15

Coffee Break

11:15-12:45

SESSION II - SEARCHING FOR THE REGIONAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES FOR A COMMON CURRENCY

Chair : André Sapir, Professor of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles,

• Steffen Kampeter, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance,Germany,
• Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Chairman European Studies Harvard University,
• Erik Jones, Professor of European Studies, SAIS; Director, Bologna Institute for Policy Research,
• Miguel Maduro, Program Director of the Global Governance Programme and Chair of European Law, European University Institute,
• Sylvie Goulard, Member of the European Parliament.

12:45-14:45

Lunch

Keynote Speech – Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council

14:45-16:15

SESSION III - THE NEED FOR MORE INTEGRATION IN EUROPE - THE MARCH TOWARDS MORE FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS ? POLITICAL DIMENSION AND MARKETS PERCEPTION

Chair : Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, Euro50 Group

• Jacques de Larosière, Advisor to the Chairman, BNP Paribas,
  
• Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics and Director, European Union Program, Princeton University,
• Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Attorney, Former Chair of French Governmental Taskforce on "Europe in the Global Economy",
• Daniela Schwarzer, Head of Research Unit EU Integration German Institute for International and Security affairs (SWP), Berlin,
• Sven Giegold, Member of the European Parliament, Coordinator for Greens/EFA in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON)
  

16:15-16:30

Coffee Break

Guest speaker: Guy Verhofstadt, Member of the European Parliament

• Alberto Giovannini, Chief Excecutive Officer, UNIFORTUNE SGR SpA,
  
• Christian Kopf, Director of Economic Research and Investment Strategy, Spinnaker Capital,,
• Beat Siegenthaler, Excecutive Director, FX Strategy, UBS Investment Bank,
• Ron McKinnon, Economics Department, Stanford University.
  

18:00-18:15

Concluding Remarks

19:30

Dinner – National Bank of Belgium (Rue au Bois Sauvage 10 - 1000 Bruxelles)

Keynote Speech: Luc Coene, Governor, National Bank of Belgium