McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics: Bretton Woods II - Does the World Need a Monetary System?

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Speakers
Paul A. Volcker
Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve System
Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Presider
James D. Grant
Owner and Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer

7:45 – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 – 9:15 a.m. Meeting

The McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics is sponsored by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Corporate Program.

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