
PROGRAMME
Welcome: Guntram Wolff, Director, Bruegel
Chair: Erkki Liikanen, Former Governor, Bank of Finland
Jean-Claude Trichet, Chairperson, Bruegel Board
Janet Yellen, Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution and Former Chairwoman, United States Federal Reserve
Zhou Xiaochuan, Vice chairman, Boao forum and Former Governor, People’s Bank of China
MONETARY POLICY AFTER THE PANDEMIC
1 September 2020
14:00-15:30 CET
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Maria Demertzis, Deputy director, Bruegel
Robert Holzmann, Governor, National Bank of Austria
Rolf Strauch, Chief Economist and Management Board Member, ESM
Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist, EBRD
Sophie Vermeille, Founder Droit et Croissance
EQUITY, CORPORATE DEBT, AND EUROPE’S CAPITAL MARKETS
2 September 2020
09:00-10:00 CET
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Simone Tagliapietra, Research Fellow, Bruegel
Samantha Smith, Director, Just Transition Centre, International Trade Union Confederation
Barbara Frei, EVP Europe Operations, Schneider Electric
Steven Fries, Chief Economist, Shell
Georg Zachmann, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
GREENING THE RECOVERY
2 September 2020
12:00-13:00 CET
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Guntram Wolff, Director, Bruegel
Susan Lund, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute
Shamina Singh, Founder & President, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
Tito Boeri, Professor, University of Bocconi
BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE FUTURE FOR WORKERS IN EUROPE
2 September 2020
13:30-14:30 CET
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Scott Marcus, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Francesca Bria, Chairman, CDP Venture Capital SGR- Italian Innovation Fund
Gerard de Graaf, Director for the Digital Single Market, European Commission, DG CONNECT
Alberto Di Felice, Director for Infrastructure, Privacy and Security
Georgios Petropoulos, Research Fellow, Bruegel
EU DIGITAL STRATEGY AT A TIME OF GEOPOLITICAL STRESS
2 September 2020
14:30-15:30 CET
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Jean Pisani Ferry, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Piotr Arak, Director, Polish Economic Institute
Dominique Moïsi, Visiting Research Professor, King’s College London and Special Advisor, Institut Montaigne
Nathalie Tocci, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali
Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America
Alexander Stubb, Director of the School of Transnational Governance, EUI
THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND GEOPOLITICS
2 September 2020
15:30-17:00 CET
Public | Livestreamed
Chair: Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Anna Gelpern, Professor of Law and Agnes N. Williams Research Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Isabelle Mateos y Lago, Managing Director, Deputy Head of Official Institutions Group, Blackrock
Atif Mian, John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor in Public Policy and Finance; Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, Princeton University
DEBT RESTRUCTURING: DEALING WITH THE DEBT OVERHANG IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
2 September 2020
17:00-18:00 CET
Public | Livestreamed
3 September
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
THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE ECONOMY
3 September 2020
08:00-9:00 CET
Closed door | Not 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
A NEW SURGE IN INEQUALITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF COVID-19
3 September 2020
09:30-10:30 CET
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
ASSESSING EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
3 September 2020
13:30-14:30 CET
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
ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN AFRICA AFTER COVID-19
3 September 2020
14:30-15:45 CET
Public | Livestreamed