Third Edition-2020
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The Age of Imagination
EMBRACING THE AGE OF IMAGINATION AND UNCERTAINTIES: THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF COVID 19
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Piroska Nagy-Mohácsi
Interim Director
Institute of Global Affairs, LSE
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Marc Uzan
Executive Director
RBWC
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Henning VÖPEL
Director & CEO
HWWI
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Kim Heungchong
President
KIEP
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Antonella Mei-Pochtler
Special Advisor to
the Chancellor of Austria
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Zhu Guangyao
Former Vice Minister of Finance
China
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Loubna Bouarfa
CEO and Founder
OKRA Technologies
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Adkins Zheng
Chairman and Chief Algorithm Officer
TCSA
A NEW GEOPOLITICAL ORDER?
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Marc Uzan
Executive Director
RBWC
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Henry Farrell
Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
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George Kvirikashvili
International Advisor
EBRD
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Jonathan Hackenbroich
Policy Fellow
ECFR
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Dongsheng Di
Associate Dean and Professor
Renmin University
THE LONGTERM IMPACT OF COVID
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Howard Chang
Vice-President of Global Affairs
TCSA
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Venky Venkateswaran
Associate Professor
NYU
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Lei Ding
Senior Community Development Economic Adviser
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
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Benjamin Pring
Partner
Cognizant
CENTRAL BANKING-EXPANDING MONETARY POLICY EXPERIMENTATION
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Isabelle Mateos y Lago
Global Head
BlackRock Official Institutions Group
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Viral Acharya
Professor of Economics
NYU
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Sayuri Shirai
Professor of Economics
Keio University
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Ilan Goldfajn
Chairman of the Board
Credit Suisse Brazil
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Athanasios Orphanides
Professor of Economics
MIT
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Vitor Constancio
President School Board, School of Economics and Management
University of Lisboa
FINANCIAL INCLUSION, DIGITAL FINANCE
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Oksana Pak
Head of Access to Finance and Entrepreneurship
EBRD
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Denelle Dixon
Executive Director
Stellar Foundation
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Heba Ali
Chief, Research and Statistics Division
Arab Monetary Fund
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Kairat Kaliyev
Chairman of the Management Board
AIFC Authority
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Subir Lall
Deputy Director
Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF
THE NEW DIGITILISATION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM
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Ousmene Mandeng
Senior Advisor
Accenture
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Rod Garratt
Chair in Economics
University of Santa Barbara
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Harold James
Professor of History
Princeton University
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Livio Stracca
Deputy Director General International Relations
ECB
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Jean Pierre Landau
Former Deputy Governor
Banque de France
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Leanne Zeng
Vice-President of Global Affairs
TCSA
UNORTHODOX TIMES, UNORTHODOX FISCAL POLICY
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Henning VÖPEL
Executive Director
HWWI
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Jakob Von Weizsäcker
Chief Economist, Ministry of Finance
Germany
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Atif Mian
Professor of Economics
Princeton University
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Betsey Stevenson
Professor of Economics
University of Michigan
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Niels Thygesen
Chairman
European Fiscal Board
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OPENING REMARKS (8:45-9:00)
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Marc UZAN
Executive Director
RBWC
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Henning VÖPEL
Executive Director
HWWI
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Massimo Deandreis
General Manager
SRM
OPENING SPEECH: INVESTING IN EDUCATION AND NEW SKILLS FOR A NEW ERA OF CHANGE (9:00-9:15)
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Francesco Profumo
President
ACRI and Compagnia Di San Paolo
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THE ECONOMICS OF CONNECTIVITY: BUILDING BRIDGES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE (9:15-10:30)
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Ekaterina Kozyreva
President
IEC International
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Zeno D’Agostino
Head
Port Authority Trieste
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Baur Bektemirov
Chief Economist
AIFC
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Alexey Grom
President
United Transport and Logistics Company
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Mario Holzner
Director
Vienna Institute for international Economics
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Philip Sweens
Managing Director
HHLA International
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Ulrich Baldauf
Head of IT Innovation & Strategy
Hamburg Port of Authority
INCLUSIVE GROWTH AGENDA : A MODIFIED GLOBALISATION?
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Krishna B. Kumar
Director, International Research
RAND
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Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
UNESCO
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Felipe Larrain
Professor of Economics
Universidad Catolica de Chile
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Sufian Ahmed
Former Finance Minister
Ethiopia
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Massimiliano Castelli
Managing Director
UBS, Asset Management
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Rakesh Mohan
President, Centre for Social and Economic Progress
Brookings India
SDG FINANCING POST COVID 19 RECOVERY IN EMERGING MARKETS
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Shamshad Akhtar
Former Head
UN ESCAP
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Mattia Romani
Managing Director
EBRD
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James Roaf
Assistant Director
IMF
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Michael Hugman
Director
Finance Climate Children’s Investment Foundation
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Leslie Maasdorp
Chief Financial Officer
New Development Bank
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Luis Oganes
Managing Director Emerging Markets Research
JP Morgan
THE 3R’s: RESILIENCE, RESHORING AND REPURPOSING
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Marie-Christine von Hahn
Vice-President
Aurubis
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Enrico Giovannini
Professor
Tor Vergata University of Rome
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Petre Roman
Former Prime Minister
Romania
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Federico Steinberg
Senior Analyst
Elcano Royal Institute
Strategic partners
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