Events
Marrakesh Economic Festival
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Location: Ouahat Sidi Brahim Circuit la palmeraie DAR Al Phosphate
The current times of uncertainty, of economic disruptions, of environmental emergency but also of geopolitics crisis has led to a fragmented and changing world in which the dynamics we have known for several years has now drastically changed becoming “more fragmented, more tensed, more on the edge and more under stress”.
World leaders may not agree on much these days – but many of them share the sentiment that the world is entering a critical decade in the contest for the future international order. Over the last three decades, businesses and governments around the world operated under the assumption that economic and financial globalization will continue apace. As the international order has come under strain in recent years, however, the concept of deglobalization – the delinking of trade and investment so– has increasingly gained traction with households, companies, and governments. National security and geopolitics are supplanting economics in shaping national and international interactions. Central bankers around the world are called upon to deal with the repercussions of strategic economic relations on macroeconomic variables, inflation dynamics, monetary policy, financial stability and market infrastructures.
We suggest using the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in October 2023, to be able to host a rich variety of programming with the goal of creating the spirit of a unique new Festival in which to host different parts of the program. Sessions and book talks will be organized during the week of the annual meetings. The session themes are listed hereafter.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023 |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Registration and Welcome Coffee |
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09:00 - 09:15 |
Opening Remarks Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC) |
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09:15 - 10:00 |
Session 2: A High-level Conversation Chair: Arend Kapteyn, Global Chief Economist, UBS Speakers: Michelle Bowman, Governor, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System Klaas Knot, Governor, De Nederlandsche Bank, Chair of the Financial Stability Board |
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee Break |
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10:15 - 11:15 |
Session 3: A conversation: Morocco’s Quest for Stronger and Inclusive Growth Speakers Abdelaaziz Ait Ali, Head of Economic Research, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) Oumayma Bourhriba, Economist, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) Roberto Cardarelli, Chief of Mission to Morocco, International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
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11:15 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 - 12:30 |
Session 4: Structural Change in The Global Economy and Its Meaning for Emerging Markets Chair: Massimiliano Castelli, Head of Strategy, Global Sovereign Markets, UBS Asset Management Speakers: Rashad Cassim, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of South Africa Julio Velarde, Governor, Central Bank of Peru Leonardo Villar, Governor, Central Bank of Colombia Min Zhu, Vice Chairman, Centre for International Economic Exchanges (CIIE) |
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14:30 - 16:00 |
Session 5: Derisking the Global Financial and Trade System Chair: Abdelaaziz Ait Ali, Head of Economic Research, Policy Center for the New South Opening: Sara Burke, Senior Policy Analyst, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, New York Speakers: Paola Subacchi, Professor of International Economics and Chair, Advisory Board, Global Policy Institute, Queen Mary University Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Ralph Ossa, Chief Economist, World Trade Organization Shahin Vallée, Senior Fellow, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
Coffee Break |
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16:20 - 17:35 |
Session 6: A Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Historical Context of Technological Change Chair: Henning Vöpel, CEO, Centrum für Europäische Politik Speakers: Stefan Buijsman, Assistant Professor, Technische Universiteit Delft |
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Thursday, October 12, 2023 |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
Registration and Welcome Coffee |
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10:00 - 11:30 |
Session 7: The New Trilemma of Macroeconomic Policy: Future Policy Responses Chair: Arend Kapteyn, Global Chief Economist, UBS Speakers: Robert Holzman, Governor, Central Bank of Austria Huw Pill, Chief Economist, Bank of England Chiara Scotti, Senior Vice-President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Axel Weber, President, Center for Financial Studies |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Coffee Break |
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11:50 - 13:15 |
Session 8: Europe: Competitiveness, Macroeconomic Challenges and Global Competition Chair: Debora Revoltella, Chief Economist, European Investment Bank (EIB) Speakers: Paolo Gentiloni, Commissioner, Economic Affairs, European Commission (EC) Boštjan Vasle, Governor Central Bank of Slovenia Boris Vujčić, Governor, Central Bank of Croatia |
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14:45 - 16:15 |
Session 9: New Payment Infrastructures Chair: Andrew Torre, Regional President for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, Visa Speakers: Marouane El Abassi, Governor, Central Bank of Tunisia Andreas Dombret, Global Senior Advisor, Oliver Wyman Róger Madrigal López, Governor, Central Bank of Costa Rica Mamo Mihretu, Governor, National Bank of Ethiopia |
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16:15 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30 - 18:00 |
Session 10: Central Bank Digital Currencies in Practice Chair: Ousmène Mandeng, Advisor, Accenture Speakers: John Rolle, Governor, Central Bank of The Bahamas Wolfram Seidemann, CEO at Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology Leong Sing Chiong, Deputy Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore Cecilia Skingsley, Head of the Innovation Hub, Bank for International Settlments (BIS) |
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Friday, October 13, 2023 |
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Session 11: Financing for Development: What Comes next |
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14:00 - 15:15 |
Climate Finance Chair: Masood Ahmed, President, Center for Global Development (CGD) Speakers: Niels Annen, Parliament State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Cooperation, Germany Michael Hugman, Director, Climate Finance, Climate Children's Investment Fund Foundation Avinash Persaud, Advisor, Prime Minister of Barbados Mattia Romani, Partner, Systemiq Vera Songwe, Chair, Liquidity and Sustainability Facility Mark Suzman, CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
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15:15 - 15:40 |
Coffee Break |
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15:40 - 17:00 |
Development Finance Chair: Kalpana Kochhar, Director, Development Policy and Finance, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Speakers: Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) Hanan Morsy, Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Papa Amadou Sarr, Executive Director, Mobilisation Partnerships and Communication, Agence Française de Développement Daouda Sembene, CEO, Africa Catalyst Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Columbia University |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Coffee Break |
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Session 12 Sovereign Debt Distress in the Global South Chair Speakers Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley Martin Guzmán, Co-President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University Nandalal Weerasinghe, Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka |
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19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner Lecture ( By invitation only ) Lecturer: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Columbia University |
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Sunday, October 15, 2023 |
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08:30 - 09:00 |
Welcome Coffee |
| 09:00 - 12:15 | Special Roundtable Sovereign Debt Distress in the Global South |
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09:00 - 12:15 |
Closed-Door Roundtable Reza Baqir, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal Mirco Bulega, Portfolio Manager, ExodusPoint Capital Sara Burke, Senior Policy Analyst, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, New York Hamouda Chekir, Director, Lazard Sovereign Advisory Maia Colodenco, Senior Advisor, Suramericana Visión Ishac Diwan, Director of Research, Finance for Development Lab (FDL) Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) Mark Flanagan, Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Anna Gelpern, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and International Finance, Georgetown University Martin Guzmán, Co-President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University Michael Hugman, Director, Climate Finance, Climate Children's Investment Fund Foundation Mark Joy, Senior Economist, Bank of England Martin Kessler, Executive Director, Finance for Development Lab Arend Kulenkampff, Director, Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub Theo Maret, Advisor, Senior Research Analyst, Global Sovereign Advisory (GSA) Chiara Mariotti, Associate Director, Open Society Foundation Brian O’Callaghan, Lead Researcher and Project Manager, Oxford Economic Recovery Project Nouriel Roubini, Professor Emeritus, NYU Stern School of Business Brad Setser, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Columbia University Dominique Strauss Kahn, Former Managing Director, IMF Paola Subacchi, Professor of International Economics, Global Policy Institute, Queen Mary University Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC) Anahi Wiedenbrüg, Senior Advisor, Suramericana Visión Rogerio Lucas Zandamela, Governor, Central Bank of Mozambique Deborah Zandstra, Partner in Capital Markets, Clifford Chance LLP |
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