EPG Panels at the IIF Annual Membership Meetings 2018

IN CONVERSATION: MAKING THE SYSTEM WORK AS A SYSTEM

The conversation discussed the key recommendations of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance (EPG)’s Report. The Group called for reforms to meet the realities of a new era: a multipolar, yet more interconnected world; with development challenges ahead that are much larger than we have seen in decades; and with significant work still needed to avert damaging financial crises.

• Tharman Shanmugaratnam (G20 EPG Chair) - Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore; Chairman, Monetary Authority of Singapore; Chairman of the Group of Thirty

• Tim Adams, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of International Finance

EPG - ACHIEVING GREATER DEVELOPMENT IMPACT: COLLABORATING ACROSS THE SYSTEM

The next decade is critical, EPG members discussed the Group’s proposals to reduce and manage risk, catalyze much larger private investment, and achieve substantially greater impact in sustainable development and inclusive growth, and in managing the growing pressures in the global commons.

• Mr. Masood Ahmed, President of the Center for Global Development (moderator)

• Prof. Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University

• Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chairperson of the Board of GAVI

• Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science

EPG - SECURING THE BENEFITS OF INTERCONNECTED FINANCIAL MARKETS: REFORMS FOR GLOBAL FINANCIAL RESILIENCE

A decade after the global financial crisis, further reforms are needed to enable countries to get the full benefits of capital flows without the bouts of instability that set back growth, and to avert another major global crisis. This panel discussed the Group’s proposals on issues concerning capital flows, risk surveillance, and the global financial safety net.

• Dr. Jacob Frenkel, Chairman of JP Morgan Chase International; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty (moderator)

• Prof. Takatoshi Ito, Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

• Mr. Fabrizio Saccomanni, Chairman of the Board of Directors of UniCredit

• Prof. John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

• Prof. Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science