The Future of the World Bank and the IMF:
Redesign For a New (and Old) World
Dates: Thursday, September 27 & Friday, September 28
Location: Main Stage, ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Williams College
Schedule of Events
Biographies of Speakers (in alphabetical order)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
4 PM What Kind of World Bank in the 21st Century? Nancy Birdsall, President, The Center for Global Development and Visiting Professor, Williams College; Ishrat Husain, Dean and Director of the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, formerly Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan; Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy and Development, London School of Economics. Chair: Gerard Caprio, William Brough Professor of Economics, Williams College. Click here for video
8 PM Keynote Address: Why Nations Fail, James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University. Chair: Anand Swamy, Professor of Economics, Williams College. Click here for video
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
8:30 The Global Financial Architecture and Financial Stability: What Works? Atish R. Ghosh, Assistant Director, and Chief, Systemic Issues Division, Research Department, International Monetary Fund; James Hanson, Visiting Professor, Williams College, formerly World Bank; and Garry Schinasi, Independent Adviser, Global Financial Stability, and formerly IMF. Chair: Kenneth Kuttner, Robert F. White Class of 1952 Professor of Economics, Williams College. Click here for video
9:45 The Role of a Lender of Last Resort. Michael Bordo, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University; Guillermo Ortiz, President Banorte and former Governor, Banco Central de Mexico; Ted Truman, The Peterson Institute for International Economics and Williams College, and former Assistant Secretary of Treasury and former Director, International Finance Division, Federal Reserve Board.Chair: Peter Montiel, Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. ’41 Professor of Economics, Williams College. Click here for video
11:30 The Role of Research in the Bank and the Fund. Olivier Blanchard, Director of Research and Economic Counselor, IMF; Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Harvard University; Luis Serven, Senior Advisor, The World Bank. Chair: Peter Pedroni, Professor of Economics, Williams College. Click here for video
1:45 Environment and Development? Ken Chomitz, Senior Advisor, The World Bank; Matt Kotchen, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Yale University; and Andrew Steer, President, World Resources Institute, formerly Special Envoy for Climate Change, The World Bank. Chair: Sarah Jacobson, Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College. Click here for video
3:00 The Rise of Emerging Markets and the IFIs. Uri Dadush, Senior Associate and Director, International Economics Program, The Carnegie Foundation and Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics, Columbia University. Chair: Ashok Rai, Associate Professor of Economics, Williams College. Click here for video
Conference Observer: Øyvind Eitrheim, Director at Governor’s Office, Norges Bank.
Conference Papers and Presentation Slides
The World Bank in the 21st Century by Nancy Birdsall
The Role of Research at the IMF by Olivier Blanchard
The IMF and the Eurozone by Michael Bordo
Managing Risks Associated with Volatile Capital Inflows by Atish Ghosh
The World Bank and the IMF Global Financial Architecture by James Hanson
The Future of the World Bank by Ishrat Husain
Innovation, Evidence, and Policy by Michael Kremer
IMF As an International Lender of Last Resort by Guillermo Ortiz
Why Nations Fail? by James Robinson
The Global Financial Architecture by Gary Schinasi
On Research at the World Bank by Luis Serven
The Role of the Lender of Last Resort (Slides) by Ted Truman
The Role of Lender the of Last Resort (Paper) by Ted Truman
Future of the World Bank Voice Reforms (Slides) by Robert Wade
The Future of the World Bank (Paper) by Robert Wade