Next Generation Central Banking: Climate Change, Inequality, Financial Instability

In March 2020, central banks have once again proven to be the first line of defense in crisis-ridden times. With their far reaching actions they prevented the world from experiencing a collapse of financial markets on top of the severe health and economic crisis caused by Covid-19. Since the global financial crisis, central banks' roles and repertoire have vastly changed.
 
The Federal Reserve has recently adopted a new strategy of average inflation targeting for its monetary policy and the European Central Bank is currently conducting the first strategy review in 17 years - President Lagarde has made it very clear that the ECB intends to address this new role.

We believe that this calls for a wider debate on the role of central banks in times of financial instability, growing inequality and an escalating climate crisis. Central banks have powerful tools at their disposal. Should they - and if so, how - support policy goals beyond their traditional price stability mandate? The conference “Next Generation Central Banking: Climate change, inequality, financial instability” on 3-5. February 2021 will provide a forum on these timely questions.

With:

• Claudia Buch,Vice-President, Deutsche Bundesbank
• Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History; Columbia University
• Fernanda Nechio, Deputy Governor for International Affairs and Corporate Risk Management at the Central Bank of Brazil
• Sylvie Goulard, Second Deputy Governor of Banque de France
• Sabine Lautenschläger, former ECB executive board member
• Shamshad Akhtar, Former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and Finance Minister of Pakistan
• Ulrich Volz, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London
• Daniel Stelter, Ökonom und freier Autor
• Annette Vissing-Jørgensen, Professor of Finance Arno A. Rayner Chair in Finance and Management, University of California, Berkeley
• Sven Giegold, Member of the European Parliament, Greens EFA Group
• Sergio Nicoletti Altimari* Deputy Head, Central Banking Operations, European Central Bank
• Alessia del Vasto, Advocacy Officer, Positive Money
• Carolyn Sissoko, Senior Lecturer, Economics; UWE Bristol
• Vitor Constancio, former Vice President, European Central Bank
• Pierre Monnin, Senior Fellow, Council on Economic Policies
• Benjamin Braun, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
• Michael Horváth, Chief Economist, Slovakian National Bank
• Jens van’t Klooster, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven
• Juliá Király, Professor of Finance and Monetary Economics, IBS Budapest, and former Deputy Governor Central Bank of Hungary
• Rens van Tilburg, Sustainable Finance Lab
• Wojtek Kalinowski, Veblen Institute
• Benoît Lallemand, Finance Watch
• Frank van Lerven, New Economics Foundation
• Joscha Wullweber, Substitute Professor for Political Economy and Global Governance at Witten/Herdecke University
• Philippa Sigl-Glöckner, Dezernat Zukunft
• Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance, UWE Bristol
• Gerhard Schick, CEO of Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende, former member of the German Bundestag

Event dates:
Wednesday 03. February 2021; 06:45-8:00 p.m. (CET)
Thursday 04. Feburary 2021; 3:00-7:30 p.m. (CET)
Friday 05. Feburary 2021; 2:00-06:15 p.m. (CET)

The detailed program of the conference can be found here.

The conference is organized by the project “Transformative Responses to the Crisis”
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Information:  
Michael Peters,
Finanzwende e.V.
E: michael.peters@finanzwende.de

Fiona Hauke,
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
E: hauke@boell.de

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