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International Banking Seminar
Monday, October 13, 2008
8:15am – 1:00pm
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. 
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8:15 - 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 - 10:30 am 
Global Economic and Financial Prospects

USA
Martin Feldstein
Professor
Harvard University


Europe
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Former Minister of Economy and Finance
Italy

 
Japan
Masaaki Shirakawa
Governor
Bank of Japan


Emerging Markets
Luis Alberto Moreno
President
Inter-American Development Bank


Question and Answer
10:30 - 11:30 am
Financial Stress, Markets and Regulatory Reform

Mohamed El-Erian
Chief Executive Officer
PIMCO

      
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
President and CEO
TIAA-CREF

 
Lawrence Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Harvard University

 
Question and Answer

11:30am - 12:30 pm
Oil, Inflation and Emerging Markets
    
Oil Prices
Daniel Yergin
Chairman
Cambridge Energy Research Associates


Asia
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Minister of Finance
Singapore


Latin America
Guillermo Ortiz Martinez
Governor
Bank of Mexico


Question and Answer

12:30 pm
Adjourn

12:30 - 1:00 pm
Reception

The Group of Thirty would like to thank Luis Alberto Moreno and the Inter-American Development Bank for hosting the 2008 International Banking Seminar..
Frenkel

International Banking Seminar
October 13, 2008

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