Making a pro-developmental reform of the global financial system a reality: diagnoses and strategies
Key information
- Date
- Venue
- Kimpton Fitzroy Hotel, London
- Room
- Carrington & Grant Suite
About this event
SOAS DLD high-level dialogue. This is a closed event, by Invitation only.
Programme
| 09:30 | Registration and coffee |
| 10:00 | Welcome remarks, DLD Co-Director, Ha-Joon Chang |
| 10:05 | Panel discussion with:
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| 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:45 | Questions and strategic discussion with invited participants chaired by DLD Co-Director, Jonathan Di John |
| 13:00 | Closing remarks, DLD Co-Director, Christopher Cramer Networking lunch |
| 14:00 | Close |
Panel biographies
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, the co-chair of The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.
Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.
Jin Liqun
Jin Liqun is the President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Jin has rich experience across the private and public sectors and with MDBs. He served as Chair of the China International Capital Corporation Limited, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the China Investment Corporation, and Chair of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds.
He previously served as Vice President and then Ranking Vice President of the Asian Development Bank and as Alternate Executive Director for China at the World Bank and at the Global Environment Facility.
Bernard Mensah
Bernard Mensah is President of International for Bank of America and is a member of Bank of America’s Executive Management Team. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch International, Bank of America’s largest international subsidiary.
He joined the firm in 2010 from Goldman Sachs in London, where he was a Partner and global head of Bank Loan and Distressed Trading, and prior to that ran the bank’s Asia Credit and Convertibles business, based in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Dr. Hanan Morsy
Dr. Hanan Morsy is the Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
With over 25 years of global and pan-African leadership, she has shaped transformative economic policy, research, and development initiatives across leading institutions including the IMF, EBRD, AfDB, UNECA, and the private sector.
María Fernanda Valdés
María Fernanda Valdés is a Colombian economist and Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations, where she works on the substantive preparations for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4).
Before joining the UN, María Fernanda held several high-level positions in the Colombian government, including Vice Minister of Finance and Vice Minister of Industry.
About SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue (DLD)
Economic and social development requires many actors: however, typically these have operated in separate spheres, not understanding each other well and even seeing each other as adversaries. In a world characterised by profound changes and heightened uncertainties, overcoming this ‘silo-ization’ and the lack of mutual understanding it leads to is ever more important.
DLD brings people and disciplines together to generate more creative and strategic solutions to difficult development challenges.
DLD is generously supported by Hyundai Motor Group UK Ltd. and Kia UK Ltd.
