Webinar

Virtual Roundtable: The Coming Digital Transformation of Currencies and Financial Markets

Friday, November 19, 2021

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Speaker

Eswar S. Prasad

Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics, Cornell University; and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Presider

Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

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