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Governance, Transparency, and Accountability in Financial Institutions and Regulatory Bodies, New York 2009

Issues of Transparency, Accountability and Governance have long been studied and the importance of their roles and optimum levels much-debated with regards to Central Banks as well as International Financial Institutions and other regulatory bodies.
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In light of the current global financial crisis and the resulting opportunity for policymaking and institutional reform, examining these themes in connection to these institutions has never been so relevant and in fact urgent.

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The Initiative for Policy Dialogue in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung hosted our first meeting on Governance, Transparency and Accountability in National and International Financial Institutions, on April 27 and 28 at Columbia University in New York City.

On the first day we addressed national institutions, focusing on principles of transparency and policy insights in literature on central banks, and address how problems of transparency, accountability and governance led to inadequacy of efforts to prevent the crisis, and how deficiencies in these qualities manifested themselves in responses to the crisis. We will discuss ideas for institutional reform, and close with a special session on Governance, Transparency and Accountability in developing country central banks.

On the second day we reviewed the same themes with regards to IFI’s, Basel Committee, and other regulatory bodies(such as the Financial stability Forum) as well as the ‘G’s’, or groups of countries.

  • Amar Bhattacharya
    Task Force Member
    Director
    G24 Secretariat
  • Sara Burke
    Task Force Member
    Senior Policy Analyst
    Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York
  • Aldo Caliari
    Task Force Member
    Director, Rethinking Bretton Woods Project
    Center of Concern
  • Roy Culpeper
    Task Force Member
    President
    The North-South Institute
  • Chad Dobson
    Task Force Member
    Executive Director
    Bank Information Center
  • Gerald Epstein
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Economics
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Jon Faust
    Task Force Member
    Louis J. Maccini Professor of Economics
    Johns Hopkins University
  • Roman Frydman
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Economics
    New York University
  • Petra Geraats
    Task Force Member
    University Lecturer, Economics
    University of Cambridge
  • Jo Marie Griesgraber
    Task Force Member
    Executive Director
    New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
  • Stephany Griffith-Jones
    Task Force Member
    Financial Markets Program Director
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
  • Eric Helleiner
    Task Force Member
    CIGI Chair
    International Political Economy
    University of Waterloo
  • Joana Henseler
    Task Force Member
    Economic Development and Employment Project Manager
    GTZ
  • Didier Jacobs
    Task Force Member
    Special Advisor to the President
    Oxfam America
  • Bruce Jenkins
    Task Force Member
    Policy Director
    Bank Information Center
  • Willene Johnson
    Task Force Member
    President
    Komaza, Inc.
  • Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
    Task Force Member
    United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Juan Antonio Morales
    Task Force Member
    Visiting Professor
    Columbia University
  • José Antonio Ocampo
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance of Colombia
    Columbia University
  • Stefano Pagliari
    Task Force Member
    PhD Candidate
    University of Waterloo
  • Thomas Palley
    Task Force Member
    Economist and Founder
    Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project
  • Pablo Pereira
    Task Force Member
    Director, Argentina
    International Monetary Fund
  • Werner Puschra
    Task Force Member
    Executive Director
    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung New York
  • Indira Rajaraman
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow
    National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India
  • Christopher Rude
    Task Force Member
    Instructor
    Graduate Program in International Affairs
    New School
  • Damon A. Silvers
    Task Force Member
    Associate General Counsel
    American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
  • Joseph Stiglitz
    Task Force Member
    President
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
  • Edwin M. Truman
    Task Force Member
    Senior Research Fellow
    Peterson Institute for International Economics
  • Carin van der Cruijsen
    Task Force Member
    Economics and Research Division
    De Nederlandsche Bank
  • Leonardo Villar
    Task Force Member
    Chief economist
    Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF)
  • James Raymond Vreeland
    Task Force Member
    Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service and Government Department
    Georgetown Univeristy
  • Kevin Young
    Task Force Member
    Fellow in Government & Global Politics
    London School of Economics
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