Monday, 15 June, 2015

16:30 | Public Lecture

Willem H. Buiter (Global Chief Economist, Citi) “What is Driving the Eurozone's Recovery and What Could Derail It?”

CERGE-EI invites you to a special lecture titled "What is Driving the Eurozone’s Recovery and What Could Derail It?" by Willem H. Buiter. The latest economic data from the Eurozone suggest that recovery may be at hand. What is driving the upturn? What obstacles does it face? And what can be done to sustain it?

Willem H. Buiter serves as Global Chief Economist at Citi and is one of the most well-known economists.*

The lecture will be held on Monday, 15 June, 2015 from 4:30 pm at CERGE-EI, Politických vězňů 7, Prague 1.

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*Willem H. Buiter is also Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), New York. Prior to joining Citigroup, he was Professor of Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and earlier for instance Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, Professor of International Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge, and Juan T. Trippe Professor of International Economics at Yale University. He also served as Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and as External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. He has been an advisor to and consultant for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission and a number of national governments and private financial enterprises.

Among his research interests are international finance, open-economy macroeconomics and public finance, pension funds and social security, international financial architecture, stabilization and structural reform in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the political economy of economic reform, the technological and political determinants of globalization, regionalism and economic development, and public finance problems of developing and transition countries.