The
business programme with speakers and moderators has been posted on the
International Financial Congress website. The 28th International
Financial Congress ‘Financial Markets: Increasing Complexity, Maintaining
Stability’ will be held 3–5 July 2019 in St. Petersburg. The Congress is organized by the Bank of Russia and
the Roscongress Foundation.
Governor of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina will
address the Congress opening event. The business programme will kick off with
the ‘Central Bank’s Policy Design: Pursuing Multiple Objectives in Times of
Increasing Market Complexity and Risk Variety’ plenary session, which will focus
on the work of central banks in an era of high global market volatility.
Governor of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina, Head of the Monetary and
Economic Department of BIS Claudio Borio, Director of the MPA Program in
Economic Policy Management at Columbia University’s School of International and
Public Affairs Patricia Mosser, and Economics Professor at London Business
School Richard Portes will all participate in the discussion. Senior Executive
Editor for Economics at Bloomberg News Stephanie Flanders will moderate the
session. Session participants will discuss how regulators in emerging market
countries should combine monetary and financial stability policies and the
features of these policies.
The
Congress business programme has been divided into several areas which include:
‘Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy’, ‘Banks’, ‘Finance Market Professionals’,
‘Microfinance’, ‘The Insurance Market’, and ‘Collective Investments: Main
Challenges and Areas of Growth’.
Executive Director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods
Committee Mark Uzan, Laureate of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Muhammad Yunus,
Professor of Brandeis International Business School Stephen Cecchetti, and representatives of EAEU central banks, the
European Central Bank, the central banks of European countries, and major
Russian financial institutions.
The
programme is available on the official Congress website.
