Central Banking Series: Madrid
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018 - Saturday, November 17, 2018
Rafael del Pino Foundation, Madrid, Spain
$500.00 – $700.00
Save the Date! GIC’s Central Banking Series continues in Madrid, Spain this November.
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Central Banking Series: Madrid
GIC is returning to Madrid this November for our 2018 International Central Banking Series at Fundación Rafael de Pino. This year will mark GIC’s fourth conference in partnership with the Fundación Rafael de Pino and BBVA. We are delighted to announce Raphael W. Bostic, the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, as the event’s keynote speaker. The public conference will take place on Thursday, November 15 accompanied by a Private Roundtable Discussion on Friday, November 16. In addition, member delegates will be invited to the Welcome Dinner on November 14 at the Palacio de Cibeles.
Agenda
Conference Part I
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Fundación Rafael del Pino – Hall I
10:30 a.m. | Registration and Coffee
10:45 a.m. | Welcome
- Vicente J. Montes Gan, Chief Executive Officer, Rafael del Pino Fundación
- Don Rissmiller, Chief Economist Strategas Research Partners and GIC Chairman
11:00 a.m. | Session I: New Risks in a New Geopolitical Framework: Saving the Liberal Trading System and the Open Global Economy
Trade
- Arancha González, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre
Geopolitical
- Manuel Muñiz, Dean & Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership, IE School of International Relations, and Senior Associate at Harvard Kennedy School
12:15 p.m. | Session II: Economic Outlook
- Michael Drury, Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments – Outlook on China
- Chris Gannatti, Head of Research, WisdomTree – Outlook on the US
- Óscar Arce, Director General for Economics, Statistics and Research, Banco de España – Outlook on the EU
- Moderator: Kathleen Stephansen, Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group Henderson Institute Center for Macroeconomics and GIC Vice Chair of Programs
1:30 p.m. | Lunch
3:00 p.m. | Session III From the Eyes of the Central Banks
- Daniel Sullivan, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Massimo Rostagno, Director General, Monetary Policy, ECB
4:00 p.m. | Session IV Innovation & Digitalization
- Ignacio Fuentes, Head of Operations at MIT Quest for Intelligence
- Karim Lesina, Senior Vice President, International External & Regulatory Affairs, AT&T Services Inc.
5:00 p.m. | Concluding Remarks
Conference Part II
Time: 7:00 – 8:45 p.m.
Venue: Fundación Rafael del Pino- Auditorium
6:45 p.m. | Registration
7:00 p.m. | Welcome
- Vicente J. Montes Gan, Chief Executive Officer, Rafael del Pino Fundación
- Don Rissmiller, Chief Economist Strategas Research Partners and GIC Chairman
- Jorge Sicilia, Chief Economist, BBVA
7:15 p.m. | Monetary Policy in a New Economic and Geopolitical Environment
- Raphael Bostic, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
- Moderator: Jaime Caruana, former General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements
8:45 p.m. | Conclusion
Event Location
Rafael del Pino Foundation
C/ Rafael Calvo, 39, 28010, Madrid, España
Speakers
Raphael W. Bostic
President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of AtlantaDr. Raphael W. Bostic took office June 5, 2017, as the 15th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is responsible for all the Bank's activities, including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services. In addition, he serves on the Federal Reserve's chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
Oscar Arce
Director General for Economics, Statistics and Research, Banco de EspañaOscar Arce is Director General for Economics, Statistics and Research, member of the Executive Commission of the Banco de España and Alternate to the Governor on the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
Manuel Balmaseda
Chief Economist, CEMEXManuel Balmaseda is the Chief Economist at CEMEX, a leading global building materials corporation. Previously he served as Chief Economist for Spain and Europe at BBVA, Chief Economist for Capital Markets at BBV, professor of economics at CEMFI and visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis.
Jaime Caruana
General Manager, Bank for International SettlementsJaime Caruana is, since June 2018, an independent member of the BBVA board. Previously, Mr. Caruana was General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements from the 1st April 2009 to the 30th November 2017.
Michael Drury
Chief Economist, McVean Trading & InvestmentsMichael Drury is the chief economist for McVean Trading & Investments, LLC. He joined the firm in 1992, after serving for five years as senior economist with Allen Sinai at Shearson Lehman Brothers and its successor firms. Michael began his career in New York in 1982 as senior economist at A. Gary Shilling and Company. He received his B.S. in economics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and did his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ignacio Fuentes
Managing Director and Chief Operations Officer, MIT Quest for IntelligenceIgnacio Fuentes holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering (Operational Research) from the Technical University of Catalonia and an MBA from the Sloan school of management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a managing director and Chief Operations Officer at the MIT Quest for Intelligence and a 2011 Sloan Fellow with a Research Scientist appointment at Sloan MIT.
Christopher Gannatti
Head of Research, Europe, WisdomTreeChristopher Gannatti began at WisdomTree as a Research Analyst in December 2010, working directly with Jeremy Schwartz, CFA®, Director of Research. In January of 2014, he was promoted to Associate Director of Research where he was responsible to lead different groups of analysts and strategists within the broader Research team at WisdomTree.
Arancha González
Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC)Arancha González, an expert in international trade issues with 20 years of experience, serves as Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), the joint development agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation, since September 2013.
Pablo Hernández de Cos
Governor of the Bank of SpainPablo Hernández de Cos is Governor of the Banco de España, member of the Governing and General Council of the European Central Bank and member of the General Board of the ESRB (European Systemic Risk Board), of the Financial Stability Board, of the BIS Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, and of the Center for Latin American Studies (CEMLA).
Karim Lesina
Senior Vice President, International External & Regulatory Affairs, AT&T Services Inc.Karim Lesina was appointed Senior Vice President, International External & Regulatory Affairs, AT&T Services Inc. on 16 June 2018. He previously held the position of Vice President of AT&T, covering International External Affairs for the European Union, Caribbean, Central and Latin America Regions and was in charge of Trans-Atlantic Relations. In this role he lead AT&T's advocacy in those regions.
Manuel Muñiz
Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership, Dean at IE School of Global and Public Affairs and Senior Associate at Harvard Kennedy SchoolManuel Muñiz is the Dean of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership. He is also the Founding Director of IE’s Center for the Governance of Change, an institution dedicated to studying the challenges posed by accelerated societal and technological change to the public and private sectors and proposing solutions and frameworks to manage these challenges.
Vicente Montes Gan
Director, Fundacion Rafael del PinoDirector of the Rafael del Pino Foundation, Vicepresident of the United Nations Global Compact Spanish Network, President of the Spanish State Economists Association, Founder and President of the NGO Liberdom and member of the Editorial Boards of the academic magazine Información Comercial Española and Ceteris paribus blog.
Donald Rissmiller
Founding Partner and Chief Economist of StrategasMr. Rissmiller is a founding Partner of Strategas and has directed the Firm's macroeconomic research efforts since 2006. He oversees Strategas' thematic research as well as high-frequency econometric forecasting.
Massimo Rostagno
Director of Directorate Monetary Policy, ECB Directorate General EconomicsMassimo Rostagno is Director of the Directorate Monetary Policy within the ECB’s Directorate General Economics. Before joining the European Central Bank in 1998, he was a research economist at the Banca d’Italia and later desk Economist in the European Department of the IMF. He has written on the political economy of fiscal policy, on the reform of social security, on the history and theory of monetary standards, on stochastic general equilibrium macro-modelling and on monetary economics in general. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and contributed to several other publications.
Jorge Sicilia
Chief Economist, BBVA Group and Director of BBVA ResearchCurrently Jorge Sicilia is chief economist of BBVA Group and director of BBVA Research. He leads a global team of economists distributed around Europe, US, Mexico, South America and Asia devoted to economic, financial and regulatory analysis. He is a member of BBVA’s ALCO and Regulatory Committee.
Kathleen Stephansen
GIC Chair Emerita, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust FundsKathleen Stephansen is GIC Chair Emerita, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust Funds. She is the former Chief Economist of Huawei Technologies, Chief Economist of the American International Group (AIG) and AIG Asset Management’s Senior Strategist and Global Head of Sovereign Research. Prior to joining AIG in 2010, Kathleen was Chief Economist at Aladdin Capital Holdings, Credit Suisse’s Head of Global Economic Research, and Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation’s co-head of Fixed Income economic research and Chief International Economist.
Daniel Sullivan, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of ChicagoDaniel G. Sullivan is director of research and an executive vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He oversees the Bank's research in monetary policy, banking and financial markets, microeconomics and regional economics.
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