In particular, how can incentives be modified to reduce excessive risk-taking, how can excessive leverage best be controlled in boom times, how to avoid overvalued assets during booms from feeding into leverage, and how comprehensive should the new regulation be? How can Basel II be modified to reduce systemic risk? How can speculative behavior best be curbed? Because financial and banking markets are increasingly global and interconnected, is global regulation essential? How can it best be agreed upon? How can it ensure adequate representation of increasingly important developing countries? This conference brought together very high-level regulators, leading academics, senior parliamentarians, the UN, civil society and the private sector to address todays most critical questions on the financial crisis, its management, and its implications for financial regulation.
- Sean Baker
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Co-Director
Center for Economic and Policy Research - Amar Bhattacharya
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Director
G24 Secretariat - Patrick Bolton
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Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business
Columbia University Business School - Sara Burke
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Senior Policy Analyst
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York - Christine Cummings
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Vice-President
NY Federal Reserve Bank - Jane D’Arista
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Research Associate
Political Economy Research Institute - Oscar de Rojas
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Director
Financing for Development Office
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - John Eatwell
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President of Queen’s College
University of Cambridge - Hazem Fahmy
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Secretariat
UN - James Galbraith
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Professor of Government, LBJ School of Public Affairs
University of Texas - Sam Gindin
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Professor
Political Science Department
York University - Bruce Greenwald
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Professor
Columbia University Graduate School of Business - Jo Marie Griesgraber
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Executive Director
New Rules for Global Finance Coalition - Stephany Griffith-Jones
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Financial Markets Program Director
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - Thea Harvey
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Executive Director
Economists for Peace and Security - Eric Helleiner
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CIGI Chair
International Political Economy
University of Waterloo - Maria Joao Rodrigues
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Associate
Foundation for European Progressive Studies - Robert Johnson
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Junior Fellow
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Jomo Kwame Sundaram
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Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development
United Nations - Anush Kapadia
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Lecturer in International Politics
Department of International Politics
City University London - Sony Kapoor
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Executive Director
Re-Define - Christian Kellerman
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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Stanislaw Kluza
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Chairman
Polish Financial Supervision Authority - Hans-Helmut Kotz
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Member of the Board
German Bundesbank - Justin Y. Lin
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Former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics
The World Bank - Martin Mayer
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Guest Scholar
The Brookings Institution - Matthieu Meaulle
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Consultant in Economics
Foundation for European Progressive Studies - Hamid Mehran
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Assistant Vice President
NY Federal Reserve Bank - Perry G. Mehrling
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Professor of Economics
Barnard College - Manuel Montes
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Senior Advisor
Finance and Development
The South Centre - Edward Nell
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Professor
Economics
New School for Social Research - Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr.
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Executive Director
Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Panama, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago
International Monetary Fund - Akbar Noman
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Senior Policy Fellow
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - José Antonio Ocampo
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Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance of Colombia
Columbia University - Arturo O’Connell
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Member
Board of Directors
Central Bank of Argentina - Ray Offenheiser
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President
Oxfam America
- Avinash Persaud
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Founder and Chairman
Intelligence Capital Limited, Warwick Commission - Werner Puschra
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Executive Director
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung New York - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
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President
Party of European Socialists - Sanjay Reddy
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Associate Professor of Economics
The New School - Christopher Rude
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Instructor
Graduate Program in International Affairs
New School - Alpo Rusi
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Ambassador
Office of the President
United Nations General Assembly - Jesús Saurina Salas
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Director
Financial Stability Department
Bank of Spain - Benu Schneider
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Research Fellow
Overseas Development Institute - Frank Schroeder
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Senior Economist
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung New York - Willi Semmler
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Professor
Economics
New School for Social Research - Krishnan Sharma
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Economist, Financing for Development
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Damon A. Silvers
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Associate General Counsel
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) - Ernst Stetter
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Secretary General
Foundation for European Progressive Studies - Joseph Stiglitz
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President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - Philip Turner
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Deputy Head
Monetary and Economic Department
Bank of International Settlements - Ieke Van Den Burg
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Member
European Parliament