Spotlight

On September 22, 2016, Elizabeth St-Onge, a Partner at Oliver Wyman - a leading global management consulting firm—presented the findings she helped collect along with other Oliver Wyman staff that were published in its second “Women in Financial Services Report”.

The 2008 financial crisis sent a shock to financial markets all around the world—even the strongest and most advanced economies took a hit. 

The full speech of French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Jean-Marc Ayrault. This speech can also be read and downloaded in French by clicking here.

The fallout from Brexit, the British exit from the European Union, was nearly immediate.

The World Bank and the IMF jointly produce the annual Global Monitoring Report to analyze policies and institutions that are needed to achieve progress in terms of global development goals.

 “Whether we like it or not, we have a global economy” said Jacob A. Frenkel, the former Governor of the Bank of Israel as he set the stage for the lecture he delivered on April 20th titled, “The Global Economic and Financial System: The Challenge of the Unconventional.”

On Monday, April 18th, 2016, the Center on Global Economic Governance, together with SIPA’s Program in Economic Policy Management and Central Banking Initiative, convened a roundtable of Central Bank Governors from Mexico, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile and Peru to discuss challenges to monetary and fiscal policy in emerging market economies. 

On Wednesday, April 13 Pier Carlo Padoan, the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, delivered a lecture on this topic titled “How can Europe contribute to global stability and economic growth?”

On Monday, April 10th, the Center on Global Economic Governance hosted Dr. Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB).

CGEG Director, Jan Svejnar and Faculty Associate and Nobel Laureate, Joseph Stiglitz featured in South China Morning post offering insight on China’s economy, following CGEG conference at Tsinghua University.

Jan Svejnar discusses the crisis of the Euro and the role of European leadership in this op-ed published in the EU Observer.

Vaclav Havel was one of the most important political thinkers of Central Europe, whose dissections of Communist rule as a playwright helped topple Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989 and lead to his eventual election as President.