Events:International Banking Seminar
The Group of Thirty hosts an annual International Banking Seminar.
The Seminar is an invitation-only, off-the-record forum that allows for frank discussion and debate of the thorniest issues confronting the central banking community. The event is scheduled to coincide with the fall meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and has become an important adjunct to the Bank and Fund meetings.
Each year the Seminar brings together over fifty percent of the world's central bank governors, the Chairman and CEOs of the financial sector, and a select few academics to debate financial and systemic issues of global import.
The Group of Thirty thanks the Monetary Authority of Singapore for kindly hosting the 2006 IBS.
If you would like more information, please contact is on IBSinfo@group30.org.
IBS 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore
See photographs of event
8:30 - 9:00 am
Registration and coffee
9:00 - 9:05 am
Welcome and introduction
Jacob A. Frenkel
Chairman, Group of Thirty
Vice Chairman, AIG
9:05 - 10:20 am
Global Economic Prospects and Inflation
Inflation: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow?
Paul A. Volcker
Chairman, Board of Trustees,
Group of Thirty
A European Perspective:
Jean-Claude Trichet
President, European Central Bank
An Emerging Markets Perspective: Guillermo Ortiz
Governor, Banco de Mexico
General Discussion/ Questions and Answer
10:20 - 11:30am
Asian Perspectives
Asia:
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Second Minister for Finance, Singapore
India:
Y.V. Reddy
Governor, Reserve Bank of India
China:
Zhou Xiaochuan
Governor, People’s Bank of China
General Discussion/ Questions and Answer
2006 International Banking Seminar: Zhou Xiaochuan, Jacob A. Frenkel, Y. Venugopal Reddy, Tharman Shanmugarat-nam, Geoffrey L. Bell
11:30 - 12.45 pm
International Financial Institutions: Challenges and Prospects
Perspective:
Mervyn King
Governor, Bank of England
Perspective:
Jacques de Larosiere
Conseiller,
BNP Paribas
Perspective:
Mario Draghi
Chairman,
Financial Stability Forum, Governor, Banco
D’Italia
Perspective:
James
D. Wolfensohn
Chairman, Wolfensohn and Company
General Discussion/ Questions and Answer
1:00 pm
Lunch
Hosted by Senior Minister,
Goh Chok Tong and the
Monetary Authority of Singapore
1:45 pm
Perspectives on Growth
Goh Chok Tong
Senior Minister and Chairman
Monetary Authority of Singapore
(*) Agenda as of September 11, 2006.