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2023

Saturday
October 14, 2023

"Building Economic Resilience in Uncertain Times: Challenges for Emerging Markets and the Region ", The 2023 Per Jacobsson Lecture will bring together policy makers and experts from Africa and the Middle East to discuss key issues and challenges facing the region. October 14, 2023 at 3:00PM GMT+1.

Saturday
September 16, 2023

"CDE/Per Jacobsson Speaker Series: A conversation with Ahmed Kaikaus (CDE ’00, World Bank)", Ahmad Kaikaus, Ph.D., Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank, will inaugurate the series as the first speaker for the 2023-24 academic year, September 16-17, 2023.

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2022

Saturday
October 15, 2022

"Joined at the Hip: Why Continued Globalization Offers Us the Best Chance of Addressing Climate Change", Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School, University of Chicago. October 15, 2022.

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Sunday
June 26, 2022

"A new age of uncertainty? Implications for monetary policy", Jens Weidmann discussed the succession of crises faced by central banks over the past years. June 26 2022.

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2021

Saturday
October 16, 2021

This year's Per Jacobsson Lecture was given by Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank on "Globalisation after the pandemic", followed by a discussion with Guillermo Ortiz. Virtual event, October 16, 2021.

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2020

Friday
October 30, 2020

This year's Per Jacobsson Lecture was given by Professor Catherine Schenk on "Central bank cooperation and US dollar liquidity: what can we learn from the past?", followed by an academic panel discussion moderated by Guillermo Ortiz. Virtual event, October 30, 2020.

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2019

Saturday
October 19, 2019
(4-5 p.m.)

The Per Jacobsson Lecture was given by Mervyn King, Former Governor of the Bank of England and is entitled “The World Turned Upside Down: Economic Policy in Turbulent Times”. IMF HQ1 Meeting Halls A and B Saturday October 19, 4-5pm.

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2018

Saturday October 13, 2018	"Is There a New Orthodoxy for Monetary Policy?" Per Jacobsson panel —moderated by Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore with Veerathai Santiprabhob, Governor of the Central Bank of Thailand, Perry Warjiyo, Governor, Bank Indonesia and Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, Bali, Indonesia October 13, 2018. Watch the video
Sunday June 24, 2018	Per Jacobsson Lecture: Ben Bernanke, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, US Board of Governors on the occasion of BIS Annual General Meeting, Basel, June 24, 2018 Watch the video

2017

Saturday
October 14, 2017
(4-5 p.m.)

Per Jacobsson Panel Discussion: Economic and Financial Issues Related to Climate Change with Guillermo Ortiz, Chairman of Per Jacobsson Foundation, Mark Carney, Chair of Financial Stability Board, Maureen Cropper of Maryland University, Ashley Schulten of BlackRock, and Nicholas Stern of London School of Economics, moderated by Palita Clark of Financial Times, on occasion of the 2017 IMF Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., October 14, 2017.

Venue: IMF HQ1, Atrium, Washington, DC

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2016

Sunday
October 8, 2016
(5-6 p.m.)

Per Jacobsson Lecture: Timothy F. Geithner, President, Warburg Pincus, and former Secretary of the US Treasury and President of the New York Federal Reserve on the occasion of the 2016 IMF Annual Meetings, Washington, DC

Venue: IMF HQ1, Atrium, Washington, DC

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