GIC’s 39th Annual Monetary & Trade Conference: US Stimulus, Interest Rates and the Dollar took place on May 13, 2021 with a keynote address from Federal Reserve Board Governor, Christopher Waller, Ph.D. and remarks from Julia Coronado, President, MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC, Apostolos Apostolou, Economist, European Central Bank, Catherine Mann, Chief Economist, CitiGroup, Gail Fosler, President of the Gail Fosler Group/Former President and Chief economist of the Conference Board, Kathleen Stephansen, GIC Chair, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust Funds, and George Tsetsekos, Ph.D., GIC Secretary, Francis Professor of Finance and Dean Emeritus Drexel’s LeBow College of Business.
Jeffrey Korzenik, the Chief Investment Strategist at Fifth Third Bank and author of Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community, spoke at GIC’s Executive Briefing, Why Criminal Justice Reform is Good for Business (and business is good for reform), on May 6, 2021.
GIC welcomed Dr. Charles Goodhart virtually on April 29, 2020 to award him with the 2021 Frederick Heldring Award for Global Leadership and to discuss his recently published book, The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival. Dr. Goodhart was joined by his coauthor, Manoj Pradhan, founder of the independent macroeconomic research firm, Talking Heads Macro, for a presentation and audience Q&A.
GIC’s Executive Briefing, Economic Policy at Times of Pandemic, took place on April 22, 2021 with featured speakers, Michala Marcussen, the Chief Economist at Société Générale, and Daniel Schiffman, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Administration at Ariel University.
Troy D’Ambrosio, Executive Director, Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and assistant dean at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and Noam Wasserman, Dean of Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University joined GIC’s Executive Briefing on April 15, 2021. Hosted by Stephanie Mackay, GIC Vice Chair of Development, and moderated by Lisa McIntire Shaw, Founding Partner of Cygnus Asset Management, LLC.
Tom Barkin, the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond gave an outlook on monetary policy and discussed labor market scarring, deflation, and more with GIC Chair Emeritus, Don Rissmiller, Founding Partner of Strategas at GIC’s Executive Briefing on April 7, 2021.
Anna Paulson, Executive Vice President, Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Dennis P. Lockhart, Former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Vicente Montes Gan, the Director of Fundacion Rafael del Pino, and Kathleen Stephansen, GIC Chair, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics, and Trustee of EQAT Trust Funds, spoke at the Global Interdependence Center’s Executive Briefing, College of Central Bankers Presentation: Monetary Policy, on March 23, 2020.
Michel Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D., Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor, The Rockefeller University, presented at GIC’s Executive Briefing, Human Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 and Emergence of Variants, on March 16, 2021.
Priya Nori, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Thomas Unnasch, Ph.D., Distinguished Health Professor at the College of Public Health, University of South Florida, presented at GIC’s Executive Briefing, Virus Mutations, on March 9, 2021.
The Global Interdependence Center and LeBow’s College of Business at Drexel University presented the Fourth Annual Sovereign Debt Restructuring Conference: Sovereign Debt, Restructuring, and Risk Management in the Post-COVID-19 Era on February 26, 2021.
Dana Peterson, the Chief Economist & Center Leader of Economy, Strategy & Finance at The Conference Board, and Catherine L. Mann, Ph.D., Global Chief Economist, Citibank, spoke at the GIC Executive Briefing, Closing the Racial Inequality Gaps: Long-term Economic Effects of Racism, on February 11, 2021.
Eyal Lewin, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East Studies and Political Science at Ariel University, and Paul F. O’Brien, Ph.D., the Former Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Strategy and Planning Department of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, ADIA, spoke at the Global Interdependence Center’s Executive Briefing on January 27, 2020.
