( EN ) Plenary VII: The Next Financial Crisis

December 14, 2019

Moderator Alan Kasujja, Lead Presenter, Newsday, BBC News Speakers Rym Ayadi, Founder and Scientific Director, Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies – EMNES Otaviano Canuto, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South Harinder Kohli, Founding Director and Chief Executive, Emerging Markets Forum Edward Scicluna, Minister of Finance, Malta

Speakers
Otaviano Canuto
Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, principal at Center for Macroeconomics and Development and non-resident fellow at Brookings Institute. Former Vice President and Executive Director at the World Bank, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank. He was also Deputy Minister for international affairs at Brazil’s Ministry of Finance, as well as professor of economics at University of São Paulo (USP) and University of Campinas (UNICAMP). ...
Rym Ayadi
Founder and Scientific Director, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association
Rym Ayadi is the Founder and President of the Euro – Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA). She is Founder and Director of the Euro-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies (EMANES). She is Senior Advisor at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS); Professor at the Bayes Business School, City University of London and Member of the Centre for Banking Research (CBR); Chair of the European Banking Authority – Banking Stakeholders Group (EBA- BSG). She is also Associated Scholar at the Centre for Relationship Banking and Economics (CERBE) at LUMSA University in Rome. ...
Harinder Kohli
Founding Director and Chief Executive, Emerging Markets Forum (EMF)
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