C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics
Director: Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
October 1, 1996 - Present
This monthly speaker series brings the world's foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address a high-level audience from the business and financial community on current topics in international economics, such as outsourcing, monetary policy, and competition policy.
This meeting series is sponsored by the Corporate Program and the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.
Meetings
Speaker:
Jeremy C. Stein, Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
June 28, 2013
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Neil Irwin, Economic Columnist, Washington Post
June 18, 2013
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade
May 21, 2013
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Jeffrey M. Lacker, President, Federal Reserve Bank of RichmondPresider:
Christine Harper, Chief Financial Correspondent, Bloomberg News
May 9, 2013
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Agustín Carstens, Governor, Bank of Mexico
May 3, 2013
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
April 2, 2013
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist, CitigroupPresider:
J. Tomilson Hill, President and Chief Executive Officer, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management
March 22, 2013
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Vittorio Grilli, Minister of Economy and Finance, ItalyPresider:
Abby Joseph Cohen, President, Global Markets Institute and Senior Investment Strategist, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
December 13, 2012
5:30-6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Mario Monti, Prime Minister, Italian RepublicPresider:
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, The Carlyle Group; Vice Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
September 27, 2012
8:45-9:00 a.m. - Reception
9:00-10:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkPresider:
Richard H. Clarida, C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Columbia University
May 24, 2012
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist, CitigroupPresider:
Rana Foroohar, Assistant Managing Editor, Economics and Business, Time Magazine
May 16, 2012
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Daniel K. Tarullo, Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve SystemPresider:
Jeffrey E. Garten, Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business, Yale School of Management
May 2, 2012
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Anton G. Siluanov, Finance Minister, Russian FederationPresider:
Peter R. Fisher, Senior Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management, BlackRock, Inc.
April 23, 2012
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada; Chairman, Financial Stability BoardPresider:
William J. McDonough, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Former Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
February 23, 2012
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Vitor Gaspar, Minister of State and Finance, Portuguese RepublicPresider:
Abby Joseph Cohen, President, Global Markets Institute and Senior Investment Strategist, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
December 2, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Charles L. Evans, President, Federal Reserve Bank of ChicagoPresider:
Jeffrey E. Garten, Juan Trippe Professor of International Trade, Finance, and Business, Yale School of Management
November 15, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Barney Frank, U.S. Representative, Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts; Ranking Member, House Financial Services Committee, U.S. House of RepresentativesPresider:
Gordon M. Adams, Professor of International Relations, American University
November 14, 2011
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director, Congressional Budget OfficePresider:
Chrystia Freeland, Global Editor-at-Large, Thomson Reuters
October 20, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary FundPresider:
Thomas H. Glocer, Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters
July 26, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)Presider:
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Chief Mergers and Acquisitions Reporter, New York Times, Author,Too Big To Fail
June 9, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Olli Rehn, Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, European UnionPresider:
Steven L. Rattner, Former Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury
June 1, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Austan Goolsbee, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, White HousePresider:
Alan S. Murray, Deputy Managing Editor/Executive Editor, Online, Wall Street Journal
May 19, 2011
8:00-8:15 a.m. - Breakfast
8:15-9:15 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary, U.S. Department of the TreasuryPresider:
Daniel L. Doctoroff, President, Bloomberg L.P.
April 26, 2011
8:00-8:30 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:30-9:30 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Masaaki Shirakawa, Governor, Bank of JapanPresider:
William J. McDonough, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1993-2003)
April 14, 2011
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Meeting
12:00-12:30 p.m. - Lunch Reception
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Speakers:
Elena Salgado, Second Vice President and Minister of Economy and Financial Affairs, Spain, Miguel Fernández Ordóñez, Governor, Bank of SpainPresider:
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
March 11, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Thomas M. Hoenig, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas CityPresider:
Paul E. Steiger, Editor in Chief, ProPublica
March 2, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Lael Brainard, Undersecretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of the TreasuryPresider:
Faryar Shirzad, Managing Director, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
January 21, 2011
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the PresidentPresider:
Paul Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, Wall Street Journal
October 22, 2010
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch Reception
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Alan Greenspan, President, Greenspan Associates LLC; Former Chairman, Federal ReservePresider:
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report
September 15, 2010
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist, CitiPresider:
Michael J. Elliott, Deputy Managing Editor, Time Magazine
May 7, 2010
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central BankPresider:
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1995-1999)
April 26, 2010
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Richard W. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of DallasPresider:
Joan E. Spero, Visiting Fellow, Foundation Center
March 3, 2010
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Gary Gensler, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading CommissionPresider:
Merit E. Janow, Professor of International Economic Law and Affairs, Columbia University
January 6, 2010
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Richard A. Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law SchoolPresider:
Tim Ferguson, Editor, Forbes Global, Forbes Magazine
November 4, 2009
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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October 15, 2009
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick; Author, Keynes: The Return of the MasterPresider:
Mort Zuckerman
October 14, 2009
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Christine A. Varney, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, U.S. Department of JusticePresider:
Bart Friedman, Senior Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
October 8, 2009
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Charles L. Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of ChicagoPresider:
Alan S. Blinder, G. S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
September 9, 2009
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Corporate Meeting
C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A New Foundation for Growth - Assessing the Economic Recovery and Future
Speaker:
Peter R. Orszag, Director, Office of Management and BudgetPresider:
R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University
July 22, 2009
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch Reception
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, Organization for Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentPresider:
Jessica P. Einhorn, Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
June 2, 2009
8:00-8:30 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:30-9:30 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandPresider:
Peter Ackerman, Managing Director, Rockport Capital
April 24, 2009
7:45-8:15 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:15-9:15 a.m. - Meeting
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March 25, 2009
9:00-9:15 a.m. - Coffee Reception
9:15-10:15 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve SystemPresider:
David M. Rubenstein, Cofounder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
March 10, 2009
8:00-8:30 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:30-9:30 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
John P. Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary FundPresider:
Richard H. Clarida, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Columbia University, and Global Strategic Advisor, Pimco
December 17, 2008
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast Reception
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Walter Lukken, Acting Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionPresider:
John G. Heimann, Senior Advisor, Financial Stability Institute
December 12, 2008
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Richard W. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of DallasPresider:
Karen E. Parker Feld, Managing Director, Harvard Management Company
June 10, 2008
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and DemocracyPresider:
Jeffrey R. Shafer, Vice Chairman, Global Banking, Head of Economic and Political Strategies, Citi
June 4, 2008
5:30-6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
John P. Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary FundPresider:
Thomas R. Keene, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg News
May 8, 2008
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
David H. McCormick, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of the TreasuryPresider:
Paul Calello, Chief Executive Officer, Investment Bank, Credit Suisse
January 30, 2008
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Donald Kohn
Speaker:
Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve System Board of GovernorsPresider:
Laurence Meyer, Senior Advisor, Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, Distinguished Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies
November 28, 2007
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Speaker:
John P. Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary FundPresider:
Jeffrey R. Shafer, Vice Chairman, Global Banking, Head of Economic and Political Strategies, Citigroup, Inc.
October 29, 2007
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Christine Lagarde, Minister for Economy, Finance and Employment, FrancePresider:
Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
October 22, 2007
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of IsraelPresider:
Jacob A. Frenkel, Vice Chairman, American International Group, Inc., Former Governor, Bank of Israel
October 18, 2007
7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Paul S. Atkins, Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionPresider:
William Heyman, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, The Travelers Companies, Inc.
October 9, 2007
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Peter Mandelson, Commissioner for External Trade, European UnionPresider:
Richard Medley, Chairman, Medley Capital Management
September 17, 2007
7:30-7:45 a.m. - Breakfast
7:45-8:45 a.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Robert M. Kimmitt, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the TreasuryPresider:
Charles O. Prince III, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Citigroup Inc.
September 11, 2007
5:30-7:00 p.m.
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Speaker:
Henry M. Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the TreasuryPresider:
Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.; Honorary Vice Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
June 14, 2007
7:30-9:00 a.m.
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Speaker:
Edmund S. Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University; 2006 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsPresider:
Marc Levinson, Economist, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
June 11, 2007
7:45-9:00 a.m.
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Speaker:
Kemal Dervis, Administrator, United Nations Development ProgrammePresider:
Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
May 2, 2007
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Speaker:
Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of the U.S. Department of CommercePresider:
Ann F. Fudge, Former Chairwoman and Chief Executive, Young & Rubicam, Inc.
April 23, 2007
7:45-9:00 a.m.
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Speaker:
Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central BankPresider:
Jeffrey Rosen, Deputy Chairman, Lazard
April 16, 2007
5:30-7:00 p.m.
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Speaker:
Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkPresider:
E. Gerald Corrigan, Chairman, International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
January 11, 2007
7:45-9:00 a.m.
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Speaker:
Jerry Muller, Professor of History, Catholic University of AmericaPresider:
Benn Steil, Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
October 25, 2006
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Speaker:
Martin Wolf, Associate Editor, The Financial TimesPresider:
Andrew Crockett, President, J.P. Morgan Chase International
September 27, 2006
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Corporate Meeting
C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: Reflections on India's Economic Develoment
Speaker:
Y.V. Reddy, Governor, Reserve Bank of IndiaPresider:
Frank G. Wisner, Vice Chairman, External Affairs, American International Group, Inc.
May 12, 2006
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Speaker:
Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central BankPresider:
William J. McDonough, Vice Chairman and Special Advisor to the Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and former President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
April 24, 2006
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Roundtable Meeting
C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Allan Hubbard
Speaker:
Allan Hubbard, National Economic CouncilPresider:
Paul Gigot, Wall Street Journal
April 18, 2006
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Speaker:
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Director, Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University; former President of MexicoPresider:
Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman & Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International
April 7, 2006
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Speaker:
James Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPresider:
Abby Joseph Cohen, Managing Director and Chief, Investment Policy Committee, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
March 30, 2006
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Speaker:
Thomas C. Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and 2005 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsPresider:
Ashton B. Carter, Co-director, Preventive Defense Project and Ford Foundation Professor of Science & International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
March 29, 2006
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C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: U.S. Imbalances and the Global Economy
Speaker:
Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard UniversityPresider:
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
February 8, 2006
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C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Charles McCreevy
Speaker:
Charles McCreevy, European Commission for the Internal Market and ServicesPresider:
Stuart E. Eizenstat, Head of International Trade and Finance Practice, Covington & Burling LLP
February 7, 2006
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Speaker:
Robert M. Kimmitt, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman, Deputies Group, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)Presider:
Paul Solman, Business and Economics Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
January 19, 2006
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Speaker:
Alan S. Blinder, G. S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton UniversityPresider:
Andrew D. Crockett, President, J.P. Morgan Chase International
December 13, 2005
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C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Francisco Gil Diaz
Speaker:
Francisco Gil Diaz, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico D.F.Presider:
James R. Jones, Manatt Jones Global Strategies
October 6, 2005
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C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A Conversation with John Snow
Speaker:
John Snow, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the TreasuryPresider:
Peter G. Peterson, Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group L.P.
June 28, 2005
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C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A Progressive Case for Open Markets
Speaker:
Peter Mandelson, Commissioner for External Trade, European UnionPresider:
Robert D. Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman, Sachs & Company, Goldman Sachs (International)
June 28, 2005
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A Conversation with William H. Donaldson
Presider:
Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup; Former U.S. Secretary of the TreasurySpeaker:
William H. Donaldson, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
May 19, 2005
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A Conversation with Han Duck-Soo
Presider:
William R. Rhodes, Senior Vice Chairman, CitigroupSpeaker:
Han Duck-soo, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy, Republic of Korea
May 9, 2005
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A Conversation with Jean-Claude Trichet
Presider:
Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.Speaker:
Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor, Banque de France; Member, Governing Council, European Central Bank
April 18, 2005
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Productivity Growth and Monetary Policy
Presider:
John H. Makin, Principal, Caxton AssociatesSpeaker:
Ben Bernanke, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
January 19, 2005
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A Conversation with the Right Honorable Gordon Brown MP
Speaker:
Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Her Majesty's Treasury, United KingdomPresider:
Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
December 17, 2004
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Fifteen Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: A Progress Report on Transition in Eastern Europe
Presider:
Robert C. Dinerstein, Vice-Chairman, Americas, UBS Investment BankSpeaker:
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
November 19, 2004
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Future Challenges of European Integration
Presider:
William J. McDonough, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Public Company Accounting Oversight BoardSpeaker:
Romano Prodi, President, European Commission
November 16, 2004
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The IMF at 60: Evolving Role, Current Challenges
Presider:
Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman of the Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve SystemSpeaker:
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
September 20, 2004
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A Perspective on the Global Financial System
May 6, 2004
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General Meeting
A Conversation with Roberto Lavagna
Presider:
Paul A. Volcker, former Chairman of the Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve SystemSpeaker:
Roberto Lavagna, Minister of Economy, Argentine Republic
April 21, 2004
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The Central Bank of Brazil
Presider:
David R. Malpass, Chief Global Economist, Bear, Stearns & Co.Speaker:
Henrique de Campos Meirelles, Governor, Central Bank of Brazil
March 10, 2004
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The International Challenge of Corporate Governance
Presider:
Donald B. Marron, Chairman, Lightyear CapitalSpeaker:
William J. McDonough, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
February 23, 2004
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The United States and the Future of European Integration
Presider:
Leonard A. Lauder, Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.Speaker:
Rockwell Schnabel, United States Ambassador the the European Union
December 9, 2003
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Striking a New Balance Between Rich and Poor Nations
Presider:
Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup; Former Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the TreasurySpeaker:
James D. Wolfensohn, President, The World Bank
October 29, 2003
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General Meeting
Challenges and Reforms: The French Way
Presider:
Felix G. Rohatyn, President, Rohatyn Associates LLCSpeaker:
Francis Mer, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, France
October 28, 2003
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General Meeting
Is Japan's Economic Recovery Sustainable?
Presider:
Jeffrey R. Shafer, Managing Director, Citigroup Global MarketsSpeaker:
Haruhiko Kuroda, Special Advisor to the Cabinet; Former Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Japan
September 12, 2003
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General Meeting
The Post-Iraq Economy: The Past as Prologue?
Presider:
Jeffrey W. GreenbergSpeaker:
Alan S. Blinder, G. S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, Princeton University
April 22, 2003
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General Meeting
A Conversation with Antonio Palocci
Presider:
William R. Rhodes, Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup Inc.; Chairman, Citicorp/Citigroup, N.A.Speaker:
Antonio Palocci, Minister of Finance, Brazil
April 15, 2003
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General Meeting
The Euro After Four Years
Presider:
Leonard A. LauderSpeaker:
Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor, Bank of France
April 14, 2003
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General Meeting
A Conversation with Domingo Cavallo
Presider:
Alain Belda, CEO and Chairman, Alcoa, Inc.Speaker:
Domingo Cavallo, Former Minister of Economy, Argentina; Henry Kaufman Visiting Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University
March 11, 2003
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General Meeting
Economic and Political Challenges for an Expanding Europe
Presider:
George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund ManagementSpeaker:
Sir Leon Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS Warburg; Former Vice President of the European Commission
February 6, 2003
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General Meeting
The Twin Deficits: How Should We Think About Them Now?
Presider:
Stanley Fischer, President, Citigroup InternationalSpeaker:
Peter R. Fisher, Undersecretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury
December 10, 2002
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General Meeting
International Financial Risk Management
Presider:
Carla A. Hills, Vice Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman and CEO, Hills and CompanySpeaker:
Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
November 19, 2002
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General Meeting
Lessons from America’s Economics Performance of the 1990s
Presider:
Marshall Loeb, Senior Correspondent and Member of the Advisory Board, CBS MarketWatch.comSpeaker:
Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
November 6, 2002
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General Meeting
France: An Agenda for Reforms
Presider:
William J. McDonough, Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkSpeaker:
Francis Mer, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, France
October 1, 2002
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General Meeting
Catching Up and Falling Behind in the Wealth of Nations: The Free Market Growth Machine
Presider:
Richard N. Foster, Senior Partner and Director, McKinsey and Company, Inc.Speaker:
William Baumol, New York University, and Author, The Free Market Innovation Machine
September 26, 2002
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Presider:
Richard W. Fisher, Managing Partner, Kissinger McLarty AssociatesSpeaker:
Horst Koehler, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
September 19, 2002
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General Meeting
Globalization and Its Discontents
Presider:
W. Bowman Cutter, Managing Director, Warburg PincusSpeaker:
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Columbia University; Winner of Nobel Prize for Economics (2001); Former Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, World Bank (1997-2000)
May 17, 2002
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General Meeting
Private Sector Involvement (PSI) and Sovereign Debt Crises
Presider:
David Komansky, Chairman & CEO, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.Speaker:
Eddie George, Governor, Bank of England
April 22, 2002
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General Meeting
The Stability-Oriented Monetary Policy of the ECB
Presider:
Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve SystemSpeaker:
Willem Duisenberg, President, European Central Bank
April 19, 2002
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General Meeting
Competition and the Governance of Globalization: Europe's Contribution
Presider:
Steven L. Rattner, Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group LLCSpeaker:
Mario Monti, Commissioner, Competition Directorate-General, European Commission
April 5, 2002
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General Meeting
Dinner with Paul H. O'Neill
Presider:
Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1979-87)Speaker:
Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Treasury
March 13, 2002
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General Meeting
Soveriegn Debt Restructuring Mechanisms
Presider:
J. Tomilson Hill, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group
January 29, 2002
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General Meeting
Trade and the American Economy: The Case for Trade Promotion Authority
Presider:
Louis Perlmutter, Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. LLCSpeaker:
R. Glenn Hubbard, Chair, Council of Economic Advisors
December 3, 2001
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General Meeting
Are There Limits to Global Capital Market Integration?
Speaker:
Kenneth S. Rogoff, Economic Counsellor, International Monetary FundPresider:
Benn Steil, André Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
November 19, 2001
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General Meeting
Globalization: Has Anything Changed?
Presider:
John A. Ross, Corporate Chief Operating Officer, Deutsche Bank AGSpeaker:
Stanley Fischer, Former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
November 6, 2001
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General Meeting
The Administration's International Economic Agenda
Presider:
William J. McDonough, President, Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkSpeaker:
John B. Taylor, Undersecretary for International Affairs, United States Treasury
October 24, 2001
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General Meeting
Brazil: An Update
Presider:
Stephen Robert, Chairman, Robert Capital Management, LLCSpeaker:
Arminio Fraga, Governor, Central Bank of Brazil
October 22, 2001
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General Meeting
Japan’s Economic Outlook and the BOJ’s Monetary Policy
Presider:
Benn Steil, Linda J. Wachner Senior Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Kazuo Ueda, Bank of Japan
May 11, 2001
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General Meeting
Are Stocks Still Right for the Long Run?
Presider:
José Luiz Daza, Deutche Bank AGSpeaker:
Jeremy J. Siegel, Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance, The Wharton School of International Banking and Finance, University of Pennsylvania
May 1, 2001
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General Meeting
Time for Real Reform of the Financial System
Presider:
Michael M. Weinstein, Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; former Member of the Editorial Board, New York TimesSpeaker:
Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Board (1979-87)
April 5, 2001
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General Meeting
Hard Lessons from Unemployment in Europe
Presider:
Richard Medley, Medley Global AdvisorsSpeaker:
Olivier Blanchard, Chairman, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 15, 2001
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General Meeting
A New Direction for U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy?
Presider:
Ernest Stern, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.Speaker:
Alice Rivlin, The Brookings Institution; former Vice Chair, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve
February 15, 2001
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General Meeting
Where Is the Upside for Latin America?: The Next Investment Opportunities
Presider:
Arturo C. Porzecanski, Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets, ABN AMRO Inc.Speaker:
Rudiger Dornbusch, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 16, 2001
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General Meeting
Back to the Drawing Board: The IMF's Origins as a Blueprint for Its Future
Presider:
Calvin Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Cognizant Technology SolutionsSpeaker:
Anna J. Schwartz, Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
November 7, 2000
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General Meeting
A New Approach for U.S. Foreign Assistance
Presider:
James R. Silkenat, Partner, Winthrop Stimson Putnam & RobertsSpeaker:
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Center for International Development; Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University
October 12, 2000
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General Meeting
Antitrust and the 'New Economy'
Presider:
Benn Steil, Andre Meyer Senior Fellow, International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Richard A. Posner, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
September 15, 2000
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General Meeting
Can the Euro Go Global?
Presider:
Robert BartleySpeaker:
Robert A. Mundell, C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics, Columbia University; 1999 Nobel Laureate in Economics
May 17, 2000
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General Meeting
The Euro After 15 Months
Presider:
Alan S. Blinder, G.S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, Princeton University; Visiting Fellow, The Brookings InstitutionSpeaker:
Jean-Claude Trichet, Govenor, Banque de France; Member, Governing Council of the European Central Bank
April 18, 2000
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General Meeting
Competition Policy in a Global Economy
Presider:
Merit E. Janow, Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)Speakers:
Paula Stern, President, The Stern Group, Inc.; former Commissioner and Chairwoman, U.S. International Trade Commission (1978-87), Eleanor Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law
March 23, 2000
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General Meeting
Why, and How, to Reform the IMF
Presider:
John H. Watts, Chairman, Fischer, Francis Trees & WattsSpeaker:
Charles W. Calomiris, Paul M. Montrone Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
March 22, 2000
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General Meeting
The Right Priorities for International Development
March 20, 2000
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General Meeting
Can the World Bank Meet the Challenge of Globalization?
Presider:
Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean, Yale School of ManagementSpeaker:
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank (1997-2000); Economic Adviser, World Bank; Professor of Economics, Stanford University
March 6, 2000
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General Meeting
Free Trade and Inequality: A New Policy After Seattle?
Presider:
Jessica P. Einhorn, former Managing Director, The World BankSpeakers:
Karen E. Feld, Managing Partner of Currency Research, The Chase Manhattan Corporation, Albert Fishlow, Senior Economist, Violy, Byorum & Partners Holdings, LLC, former Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
February 15, 2000
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General Meeting
An Agenda for the IMF at the Start of the 21st Century
Presider:
Joan E. Spero, President, Doris Duke Charitable FoundationSpeaker:
Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
February 1, 2000
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General Meeting
The Euro as Seen from Frankfurt: Lessons from the First Year
Presider:
William J. McDonough, President, Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkSpeaker:
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
January 27, 2000
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General Meeting
Is the New Economy a True Industrial Revolution?
Presider:
Paul A. Allaire, Chairman, Xerox CorporationSpeaker:
Robert Gordon, Stanley G. Harris Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Economics
November 29, 1999
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General Meeting
Recent Policy Challenges in Latin America
Presider:
Kenneth R. MaxwellSpeaker:
Guillermo Perry, The World Bank
June 10, 1999
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General Meeting
No Single Currency Regime Is Right for All Countries or at All Times
Presider:
Karen E. Parker Feld, Wellington ManagementSpeaker:
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Visiting Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution
April 30, 1999
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General Meeting
The Problem with Economics
Presider:
Albert FishlowSpeaker:
Robert L. Heilbroner, Norman Thomas Professor of Economics Emeritus and Senior Lecturer in Economics New School for Social Research
March 19, 1999
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General Meeting
Inequality and Globalization
February 19, 1999
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General Meeting
A Japanese Economy for the Future and the Japan-U.S. Partnership
Presider:
Merit E. JanowSpeaker:
Kaoru Yosano, Minister of International Trade and Industry, Japan
January 11, 1999
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General Meeting
An Analysis of the World Development Report, 1998-99: Knowledge for Development
Speakers:
Carl J. Dahlman, Staff Director, World Development Report 1998, World Bank, Tara Vishwanath, Principal Author, World Development Report 1998, World Bank
December 14, 1998
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General Meeting
The Stability Pact in the European Monetary Union
Presider:
Gonzalo de Las HerasSpeaker:
Alessandra Casella, Professor of Economics, Columbia University
December 2, 1998
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General Meeting
The Productivity of Nations
Presider:
Michael ShermanSpeaker:
William Lewis, Director, McKinsey Global Issues
November 10, 1998
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General Meeting
Using Reunification to Jump-Start the Korean Economy: The Lessons German Reunification Didn't Teach
Presider:
John B. HurfordSpeaker:
Lester Thurow, Professor of Management and Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 19, 1998
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General Meeting
The Dollar and U.S. Manufacturing Activities
Presider:
Ronald K. ShelpSpeaker:
Linda Goldberg, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
May 28, 1998
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General Meeting
Beyond the Kyoto Conference on Global Warming: Can the United States and Developing World Agree on a Course of Action?
Presider:
David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow,, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Richard N. Cooper, University of Dar es Salaam, Mark Musandosya
May 20, 1998
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General Meeting
What Does the Euro Mean for the U.S.?
Speakers:
Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University, Roger M. Kubarych, Council on Foreign Relations
May 20, 1998
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General Meeting
Regionalism and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System
Presider:
John D. Negroponte
March 26, 1998
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General Meeting
Is There Empirical Support for the 'Washington Consensus'?
Presider:
Timothy S. WilsonSpeaker:
Ann E. Harrison, Columbia University
February 18, 1998
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General Meeting
Trade, Labor Standards, and Human Rights: A Euphemism for Protection?
Presider:
Joan E. SperoSpeaker:
T. N. Srinivasan, Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, Chairman, Department of Economics, Yale University
January 8, 1998
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General Meeting
The Sources of Industrial Leadership
Presider:
Yves-Andre Istel, Rothschild Inc.Speaker:
Richard Nelson, George Blumenthal Professor of International & Public Affairs, Business, and Law, Columbia University
October 15, 1997
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General Meeting
Immigration Policy and Economics
Presider:
Ernest SternSpeaker:
George J. Borjas, Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
May 12, 1997
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General Meeting
Economic Attitudes toward Community
Presider:
Dorothy M. SobolSpeaker:
Susan M. Collins, The Brookings Institution/Georgetown University
April 17, 1997
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General Meeting
Institutional Change in the Japanese Economy
Presider:
Shepard FormanSpeaker:
Hugh Patrick, R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business and Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
March 19, 1997
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General Meeting
Rethinking Exchange Rates
Presider:
Paul M. Sacks, Multinational Strategies, Inc.Speaker:
Kenneth S. Rogoff, Charles and Marie Bradley Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
January 16, 1997
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General Meeting
Foreign Capital Inflows and Conditionality
Presider:
Mahesh K. KotechaSpeaker:
Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and Director, Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
December 6, 1996
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General Meeting
Managing International Crises
Presider:
Stephen W. BosworthSpeaker:
Peter B. Kenen, Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance, Princeton University
November 19, 1996
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General Meeting
Regional Free Trade in the Middle East
Presider:
Louis Perlmutter, Lazard FreresSpeaker:
Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard University
October 16, 1996
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