Partners
- UNCTAD
Geneva, Switzerland
During the past year, the question of how cases of sovereign insolvency should be handled has garnered increasing attention in academic and research forums, international policy arenas and financial markets. In both the most recent UN General Assembly resolution on external debt sustainability and development, and in the Outcome document of the 2009 UN Conference on the Global Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, member states expressed their interest in exploring enhanced approaches to restructuring sovereign debt as well as the need for and feasibility of a more structured framework for international cooperation in this area. The seminar presented an occasion to bring together prominent experts in the areas of both economics and law to discuss various aspects of research and policy agenda related to an insolvency mechanism.
- Amar Bhattacharya
Moderator
Director
G24 Secretariat - Patrick Bolton
Speaker
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business
Columbia University Business School - Fridrik Mar Baldursson
Speaker
Professor and Dean
Business School
Reykjavik University - John Williamson
Moderator
Senior Fellow
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Speaker
Member of the Executive Board
European Central Bank - Anne Krueger
Speaker
First Deputy Managing Director
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Speaker
Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Research
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - Andrew Powell
Moderator
Lead Research Economist
Research Dept
Inter-American Development Bank - Nouriel Roubini
Speaker
Associate Professor of Economics and International Business
New York University - Otaviano Canuto
Speaker
Vice President
Inter-American Development Bank
- Yuefen Li
Speaker
Head of the Debt and Development Finance Branch
UNCTAD - Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Speaker
Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development
United Nations - Guillermo Calvo
Speaker
Professor of Economics
Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs - Ricardo Hausmann
Speaker
Director, Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - Lee Buchheit
Speaker
Honorary Professor
University of Edinburgh Law School
University Of Edinburgh - Dominique Desruelle
Speaker
Assistant Director
Strategy, Policy, and Review Department
IMF