Center on Global Economic Governance

Recognizing the imperative of restoring global growth, the Columbia Global Center | Rio de Janeiro and the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia-SIPA have joined forces to produce a ten-part series, entitled "The Changing Role of the State". The series brings together experts from around the world, including Brazil and other emerging markets. The series will treat subjects ranging from fiscal and monetary challenges, inequality and health, labor markets and social ...policies, and key sectors, such as energy and technology. Beginning on January 28-29, the global outlook and its impact on Brazil and other emerging economies were examined by renowned economic experts in two 90-minute webinars. The next two sessions on February 25 and 26 will explore the critically important components of the growth imperative, focusing on fiscal and monetary issues. Panel Discussion on Feb 25: Changing Role of the State | Global Monetary Conditions and Implications for the Emerging Economies With: Ilan Goldfajn, Chairman of the Board Credit Suisse, Brasil Francesco Papadia, Senior Resident Fellow, Bruegel (Brussels) Guillermo Calvo, Professor of Economics, Columbia University-SIPA Seth Carpenter, Chief U.S. Economist, UBS Moderated by Patricia Mosser, Director, MPA Program in Economic Policy Management, Columbia University-SIPA Click here to register: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_kt0Oa_PsR72admE2DFbcOw

On January 28th and 29th, the Center on Global Economic Governance and the Columbia Global Center | Rio de Janeiro hosted the first two events of a ten-part conference series focused on growth and employment in the aftermath of the pandemic. During both days renowned economic experts examined the global outlook and its impact on Brazil and other emerging economies. They provided an overview of global economic conditions and how these conditions help or hinder recovery in Bra...zil and in other hard-hit middle-income economies. If you missed the events or want to watch them again, here are the two recorded sessions: Day 1 https://youtu.be/fC11WEQQn94 Day 2 https://youtu.be/4g2r0pcdHBQ

Join the Center on Global Economic Governance and the MPA in Economic Policy Management for the series: The World Economy: Views of Chief Economists," presenting world-renowned economists from the private and public sector to discuss current global economic challenges and their perspectives of the future. On February 23, 2021, Catherine L. Mann, Global Chief Economist at Citibank, will deliver the first lecture in this series, entitled Global Economic Outlook Post Covid-19:... Road to Recovery?. Jan Svejnar, James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy and Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia SIPA, will serve as moderator. Prior to Citibank, Dr. Mann was Chief Economist at the OECD, where she also was Director of the Economics Department and was Finance Deputy to the G20 (2014-2017). She holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University. To register, click here: https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do

Join the Center on Global Economic Governance and the Columbia Global Center | Rio de Janeiro for the first two events of a ten-part conference series that will focus on growth and employment in the aftermath of the pandemic. Beginning tomorrow Thursday, January 28, and Friday, 29, renowned economic experts will examine the global outlook and its impact on Brazil and other emerging economies in ten 90-minute webinars that will continue through May 2021. These first two sessi...ons on January 28-29 will provide an overview of global economic conditions and how these conditions help or hinder recovery in Brazil and in other hard-hit middle-income economies. To register click here: Session 1/28: https://t.co/m4XXDXTMZm Session 1/29: https://t.co/b2OUryzEyv Simultaneous translation from English to Portuguese will be available. | Este evento contará com tradução simultânea do inglês para o português.

Next week on Dec. 9: Join Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway Prime Minister Erna Solbergdom of Norway and Wilmot Godfrey James of Columbia University for a conversation on Multilateral Leadership in Global Health Security. #WorldLeadersForum Cosponsored by Center on Global Economic Governance. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2020WLFNorway

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece and President Lee C. Bollinger of Columbia University discuss "The Greek Transformation: Overcoming a Financial Crisis, Populism, and COVID". December 2 at 10am ET. Cosponsored by the #WorldLeadersForum, the Center on Global Economic Governance, and the Columbia Global Centers. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2020WLFGreece

Last Wednesday 14th, the CGEG co-organized the 5th annual high-level conference on fiscal and monetary interventions in Europe and the United States, entitled How to spend it? How to pay it back? EU and US Perspectives. If you want access to the event's details and speaker's presentations and speeches, click here: https://cgeg.sipa.columbia.edu//how-spend-it-how-pay-it-ba

In the online panel of the 24th Forum 2000 Conference on October 14th, titled Can we take advantage of the disaster? The economic priorities for a New World, Jan Svejnar, Professor and Director of the Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, had a conversation about the world's economic priorities during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. They discussed the importance of effective science-led public health measures to implement sound economic policies and the challenges and opportunities the world faces to restart its economy. To read the summary of the event: https://cgeg.sipa.columbia.edu/Forum-2000-summary-Can-we-ta