Thursday 3, September
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3 September 2020
08:00-9:00 CET
THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE ECONOMY
Closed door | Not livestreamed
Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Philipp Steinberg, Director-General of Economic Policy, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
Olivier Guersent, Director General, European Commission, DG COMP
3 September 2020
09:30-10:30 CET
A NEW SURGE IN INEQUALITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF COVID-19
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Zsolt Darvas, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Santina Bertulessi, Deputy Head of Cabinet, Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
Philippe Lamberts, Member of the European Parliament
Martin Sandbu, European Economics Commentator, Financial Times
3 September 2020
12:30-13:30 CET
KEYNOTE: TOGETHER FOR EUROPE'S RECOVERY AND FOR A BETTER, MORE SOVEREIGN EUROPE
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Guntram Wolff, Bruegel
Olaf Scholz, Minister of finance, Germany
Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director, Bruegel
3 September 2020
13:30-14:30 CET
ASSESSING EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Nicolas Veron, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Elena Carletti, Professor of Finance, Bocconi University
Benoît Cœuré, Head of Innovation Hub, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Alexandra Dimitrijevic, Global Head of Research, S&P Global
Martin Merlin, Director - Bank, insurance and financial crime, European Commission, DG FISMA
Pierre Wunsch, Governor, National Bank of Belgium
3 September 2020
14:30-15:45 CET
ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN AFRICA AFTER COVID-19
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Uri Dadush, Non-Resident Fellow, Bruegel
Keynote: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, First Female President of Liberia & Nobel Peace Laureate
Koen Doens, Director-General, DG DEVCO
Hafez Ghanem, Vice president, World Bank
Trudi Makhaya, Advisor to the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
Patricia Obo-Nai, CEO, Vodafone Ghana
3 September 2020
16:00-17:00 CET
CLOSING LECTURE - GOOD ECONOMICS FOR HARDER TIMES
Public | Livestreamed
Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology