Second Edition-Hamburg
Ocotober 29-30, 2019
The Age of Progress
program
TUESDAY OCTOBER 29
9:30-9:40
Opening Remarks

Marc UZAN
Executive Director
RBWC

Henning VÖPEL
Executive Director
HWWI
9:40-11:00
Session 1: World and Trade in Turmoil – The Disentanglement of the Global Economy

Nijathaworn BANDID
Chairman
Foundation for Public Policy and Good Governance

Tao ZHANG
Deputy Managing Director
IMF

Yaroslav LISSOVOLIK
Head of Research
SBerbank CIB
11:15-13:15
Session 2: The Great Debate – MMT and Central Banking

Jacob FRENKEL
Chairman
JP Morgan Chase International

Moritz SCHULARICK
Professor of Economics
University of Bonn

Stephanie KELTON
Professor of Economics
Stony Brook

Vitor CONSTANCIO
Dean
School of Management of Lisboa

Lorenzo BINI SMAGHI
Chairman
Société Générale

Catherine L. MANN
Global Chief Economist
Citigroup

Denis BEAU
First Deputy Governor
Bank of France
14:30-15:10
Session 3: Public Investment and Growth: The Changing Economics of Deficit

Henning VÖPEL
Executive Director
HWWI

Jacob VON WEIZSÄCKER
Chief Economist
Ministry of Finance, Germany

Pier Carlo PADOAN
Member of Parliament
Italy
15:10-16:15
Session 4: The Silk Road Initiative: Risk Mitigation and Reconciling the Different ConnectivityFrameworks

Marc UZAN
Executive Director
RBWC

Shamshad AKHTAR
Former Head
UN ESCAP

Christoph TREBESCH
Head of International Finance & Global Governance
KIEL Institute for the World Economy

Alessia BERARDI
Head of Emerging Market Economics
Amundi Asset Management
16:35-18:00
Session 5: Dialogue of Leaders: Can Multilateralism Survive? The Emergence of an Economic and Tech Iron Curtain

Petre ROMAN
Professor
University Politechnica Bucharest

George KVIRIKASHVILI
International Advisor
EBRD

Karin KNEISSL
Former Foreign Minister
Austria

Tan Sri Rastam MOHD ISA
Chairman and Chief Executive
ISIS Malaysia

Dongshen DI
Associate Dean and Professor of International Political Economics/World Economy
Renmin University of China
18:00
Cocktail Reception
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30
8:50-9:00
Opening Remarks

Aurora WONG
Vice President
ZB group
9:00-10:15
Session 6: The Rise of the Digital Platform Economy: Social and Economic Consequences

Anna HOFFMAN
Head of Research and Scolarship
ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Bucerius

Ian GOLDIN
Professor of Globalization and Development
Oxford University

Loubna BOUARFA
CEO and Founder
OKRA Technologies

Masood AHMED
President
Center for Global Development
10:30-11:45
Session 7: Central Banking in a New Technological Era

Carsten MUMM
Chief Economist
Donner & Reuschel

Boris VUJCIC
Governor
Central Bank of Croatia

Aniko SZOMBATI
Executive Director and Chief Digital Officer
Central Bank of Hungary

Aleksi GRYM
Head of Digitalization
Bank of Finland

Linda SCHILLING
Assistant Professor
Ecole Polytechnique CREST
11:45-12:40
Session 8: The Future of Money – The Emergence of Digital Money

Tim SIEVERS
CEO & Founder
Deposit Solutions

Ido SADEH MAN
President
SAGA Foundation

Rhomaios RAM
CEO
Fnality International

Aurora WONG
Vice President
ZB group
14:00-15:15
Session 9: Energy, Economy, Environment: The Three E’s Paradigm for Sustainable Cities and Inclusive Growth

Dirck SUESS
Director of the Economic Policy Department
Hamburg Chamber of Commerce

Raekwon CHUNG
Professor Emeritus
Incheon National University

Jörg NOENNING
Professor for Digital City Science
Hafen City University

Jens KERSTAN
Minister of Environment and Energy
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Jeffrey SACHS
President
Earth Institute
15:45-16:30
Session 10: Introductory Keynote – Financing Sustainable Transition

Werner HOYER
President
European Investment Bank

Masood AHMED
President
Center for Global Development
15:45-16:30
Session 10 – Multilateral Development Bank Perspectives

Pierre HEILBRONN
Vice President Policy and Partnership
EBRD

Masood AHMED
President
Center for Global Development
16:35-17:35
Session 11: Governing the Digital Society – Big Data, AI, Blockchain and Democracy

Petre Roman
Professor
University Politechnica Bucharest

Ching ZHU
CEO
Chain Board Inc.

Wolfgang KLEINWÄCHTER
Member
ICANN

Johannes CASPAR
Hamburg Commissioner
Data
Protection and Freedom of Information
Organizers
strategic Partners


Supporting partners



Continue the conversation
#dialogueofcontinents