World Economic Update

Friday, February 16, 2007

Speakers

Stephen S. Roach

Chief Economist and Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

R. Glenn Hubbard

Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia Business School

Roger W. Ferguson Jr.

Chairman and Executive Committee Member, Swiss Re America Holding Corporation

Presider

Daniel K. Tarullo

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

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

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