Benn Steil

Speakers:	William H. Donaldson, Chairman and CEO, Donaldson Enterprises, Inc.; Chairman, SEC 2003-05 Harvey L. Pitt, CEO, Kalorama Partners; Chairman, SEC, 2001-03 Arthur Levitt, Senior Adviser, the Carlyle Group; Chairman, SEC, 1993-2001 Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Richard C. Breeden & Co.; Chairman, SEC, 1989-1993
Presider:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

Audio

Listen to Arthur Levitt, Harvey Pitt, and William Donaldson, discuss ongoing moves toward greater global convergence on market regulatory standards, largely agreeing they are key to the success of U.S. financial markets.

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February 22, 2006

The Securities and Exchange Commission in a Globalizing Market: A Conversation with the Past Four Chairmen (video)

Speakers:	William H. Donaldson, Chairman and CEO, Donaldson Enterprises, Inc.; Chairman, SEC 2003-05 Harvey L. Pitt, CEO, Kalorama Partners; Chairman, SEC, 2001-03 Arthur Levitt, Senior Adviser, the Carlyle Group; Chairman, SEC, 1993-2001 Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Richard C. Breeden & Co.; Chairman, SEC, 1989-1993
Presider:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

Video

Watch Arthur Levitt, Harvey Pitt, and William Donaldson, discuss ongoing moves toward greater global convergence on market regulatory standards, largely agreeing they are key to the success of U.S. financial markets.

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February 22, 2006

The Securities and Exchange Commission in a Globalizing Market: A Conversation with the Past Four Chairmen [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]

Speakers:	William H. Donaldson, Chairman and CEO, Donaldson Enterprises, Inc.; Chairman, SEC 2003-05 Harvey L. Pitt, CEO, Kalorama Partners; Chairman, SEC, 2001-03 Arthur Levitt, Senior Adviser, the Carlyle Group; Chairman, SEC, 1993-2001 Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Richard C. Breeden & Co.; Chairman, SEC, 1989-1993
Presider:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

Transcript

Four former chairmen of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Richard Breeden, Arthur Levitt, Harvey Pitt, and William Donaldson, discuss ongoing moves toward greater global convergence on market regulatory standards, largely agreeing they are key to the success of U.S. financial markets.

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February 2006

Academic Module: Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy

Authors:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics Robert E. Litan, Vice President, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Academic Module

As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments—most notably the United States—increasingly came to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase and sale of financial assets across borders.

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February 2006

Financial Statecraft

Authors:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics Robert E. Litan

Book

Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange besides imports and exports has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase and sale of financial assets across borders.

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January 16, 2006

The developing world should abandon parochial currencies

Author:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

Op-Ed

Financial Times

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January 2006

Réglementer Les Marchés Financiers De Demain

Author:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

Article

Revue d'économie financière

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2005

August 11, 2005

Europe’s Securities Markets Need New Plumbing

Author:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

Op-Ed

Financial Times

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March 28, 2005

The End of History and the Last Trading System: Fukuyama Comes to Market Reg

Author:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

Op-Ed

Securities Industry News

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Winter 2005

The Capital Market Sanctions Folly

Author:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

Article

The International Economy

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2004

December 21, 2004

Get Tough on Soft Commissions

Author:	Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

Op-Ed

Financial Times

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August 31, 2004

Republican National Convention: Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Policy Discussion (video)

Speakers:	Elizabeth C. Economy, Director of Asia Studies and C.V. Starr Fellow for China, Council on Foreign Relations Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Introductory Speaker:	Clyde Tuggle, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Public Affairs and Communications, The Coca-Cola Company

Video

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August 31, 2004

Republican National Convention: Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Policy Discussion

Speakers:	Benn Steil, André Meyer senior fellow in international economics, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth C. Economy, director of Asia studies and C.V. Starr fellow for China, Council on Foreign Relations Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations Max Boot, Olin senior fellow, national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Introductory Speakers:	Maurice R. Greenberg, chairman and chief executive officer, American International Group, Inc.; honorary vice chairman, Council on Foreign Relations Clyde Tuggle, senior vice president, worldwide public affairs and communications, The Coca-Cola Company

Speakers:

Benn Steil, André Meyer senior fellow in international economics, Council on Foreign Relations

Elizabeth C. Economy, director of Asia studies and C.V. Starr fellow for China, Council on Foreign Relations

Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Max Boot, Olin senior fellow, national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Introductory Speakers:

Maurice R. Greenberg, chairman and chief executive officer, American International Group, Inc.; honorary vice chairman, Council on Foreign Relations

Clyde Tuggle, senior vice president, worldwide public affairs and communications, The Coca-Cola Company

Transcript

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July 28, 2004

Democratic National Convention 2004: Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Policy Discussion

Speakers:	Graham T. Allison, director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University Elizabeth C. Economy, director and senior fellow, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Alex Jones, director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Sultan of Oman professor of international relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Benn Steil, acting director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, and Andre Meyer senior fellow in international economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Introductory Speakers:	Walter Shorenstein, founder, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University William J. Perry, professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University; former United States secretary of defense (1994-97)

Speakers:

Graham T. Allison, director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Elizabeth C. Economy, director and senior fellow, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Alex Jones, director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Sultan of Oman professor of international relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Benn Steil, acting director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, and Andre Meyer senior fellow in international economics, Council on Foreign Relations

Introductory Speakers:

Walter Shorenstein, founder, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University

William J. Perry, professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University; former United States secretary of defense (1994-97)

Transcript

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The Global Finance Regime

Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.

New Council Special Reports

Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action

Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.

The United States in the New Asia

For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.

Complete list of Council Special Reports

New Books

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.

In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.

In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.

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David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

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