A Week of Digital Sessions
Washington DC, USA
October 12-29, 2020
Partners
Overview
During the week of the fall IMF/World Bank meetings, RBWC in association with a group of its partners organized a series of webinars which mobilized a diverse and high-level group of experts to address a range of topics including: The Economics of Pandemics: The Role of Data; Macro-Economic Policy in Transition: Perspectives from Advanced and Emerging Countries; CBDC + Private Sector- A Recipe for Innovation?; The Future of Money Reimagined for Financial Inclusion; Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy; and A Conversation about the US Election.
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Speakers
- Bruno Tissot, Head, BIS Statistics and Head of the Secretariat of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC)
- Karel Musil, Director of the Macroeconomic Forecasting Division, Czech national Bank
- Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalization and Development, University of Oxford
- Javier Perez, Director, International Economics and Euro Area Department, Bank of Spain
- Adkins Zheng, Chairman and Chief algorithm Officer, TCSA
- Hayk Avetisyan, Head, Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of Armenia
- Ousmene Mandeng, Senior Advisor, Accenture
- Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor, Bank of Spain
- Alejandro Diaz De Leon, Governor, Banco de Mexico
- Julio Velarde, Governor, Central Reserve Bank of Peru
- Fernanda Nechio, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Brazil
- Rashad Cassim, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of South Africa
- Massimiliano Castelli, Managing Director, UBS Asset Management
- Perianne Boring, Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce
- Michael Spitz, CEO, Main Incubator, Commerzbank
- Tim Grant, Head of Business, SDX
- Wee Kee Toh, Deputy Director in the FinTech and Innovation Group (FTIG), Monetary Authority of Singapore
- Timothy Lane, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada
- Caroline Pham, Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Citi
- John Velissarios, Global Managing Director, Accenture
- Steven Becker, President and COO, Maker Foundation
- Anikó Szombati, Chief Digital Officer, Central Bank of Hungary
- Denelle Dixon, Executive Director, Stellar Development Foundation
- Harish Natarajan, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
- Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economy, European Commission
- Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Practice, Department of Economics, Harvard University
- Beat Siegenthaler, Global Macro Advisor, UBS Investment Bank
- Tony Fratto, Partner and Founder, Hamilton Place Strategies
- James Bullard, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
- Masazumi Wakatabe, Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan
- Mario Centeno, Governor, Central Bank of Portugal
- Felipe Larrain, Former Finance Minister, Chile and Professor of Economics, UCL
- Jack Farchy, Bloomberg Reporter
- Baur Bektemirov, Chief Economist, AIFC
- Jihad Azour, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF
- Martin Galstyan , Chairman, Central Bank of Armenia
- Aziza Umarova, CEO, SmartGov Consulting