Monetary Policy and Currency Issues in 2014: QE or Not QE

AGENDA

8 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration and Coffee

8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | Welcome

• Michael Drury, Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments and GIC Vice Chair of Programs

8:45 – 10:45 a.m. | Session I: End of an Era?

• David Altig, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• Danielle DiMartino Booth, Advisor to President Richard Fisher, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Catherine Mann, Ph.D., Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at Brandeis University’s International Business School and GIC Board Member
• Don Rissmiller, Founding Partner of Strategas Research Partners and GIC Board Member

10:45 – 11 a.m. | Coffee Break

11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Session II: Policy Perspectives in Non-Euro Europe

• Katarzyna Zajdel-Kurowska, Member of the Board, National Bank of Poland
• Julian Callow, Former Chief International Economist, Barclays
• Michael Marrese, Head of EMEA EM Economics and Sovereign Strategy, JP Morgan

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch

1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Session III: Global Economic Outlook

• Manuel Balmaseda, Chief Economist, CEMEX
• Kozo Koide, Chief Economist of DIAM
• John Calverley, Head of Macroeconomics at Standard Chartered

3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Coffee Break

3:45 – 4:45 p.m. | Session IV: Financial Markets Outlook

• Stephane Deo, Global Head of Macro Strategy Research, UBS Investment Bank
• Bhanu Baweja, Global Head of EM Strategy, UBS Investment Bank
• George Tsetsekos, GIC Board Chair and Dean Emeritus of Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business

4:45 – 5 p.m. | Conclusion

• Michael Drury, Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments and GIC Vice Chair of Programs