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.
Partners
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
New York City, New York, United States - Hewlett Foundation
Menlo Park, California, United States
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