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Central Banking Series: Madrid

Date: Thursday, October 3, 2019 - Friday, October 4, 2019
Madrid, Spain

$500.00$700.00

GIC is returning to Madrid this October to continue our International Central Banking Series!

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Central Banking Series: Madrid

GIC’s Central Banking Series continues in Madrid, Spain on October 3, 2019 at Fundación Rafael de Pino. This year will mark GIC’s fifth conference in partnership with the Fundación Rafael de Pino and BBVA. We are delighted to announce Charles L. Evans, the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, as the event’s keynote speaker.

GIC Members are also invited to join a Private Roundtable Discussion held under Chatham House Rule on Friday, October 4.

This program is part of a duel-city program, also held in Frankfurt, Germany earlier in the week.

 

Agenda

Morning Conference | Thursday, October 3, 2019
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Fundación Rafael del Pino – Auditorium
Address: Calle Rafael Calvo, 39, 28010, Madrid, España

9:00 a.m. | Registration

9:30 a.m. | Welcome

  • María del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, President, Rafael del Pino Foundation
  • José Manuel Gonzalez Páramo, Executive Board Member, BBVA
  • Kathleen Stephansen, Senior Economist, Haver Analytics and GIC Vice Chair of Programs

9:45 a.m. | Presentation

  • Charles Evans, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank
  • Moderator: Rafael Repullo, Professor of Economics and Director of CEMFI

11:15 a.m. | Conclusion

  • Kathleen Stephansen, Senior Economist, Haver Analytics and GIC Vice Chair of Programs

 

Afternoon Conference | Thursday, October 3, 2019
Time: 11:30AM – 5:30PM
Venue: Fundación Rafael del Pino – Hall I
Address: Calle Rafael Calvo, 39, 28010, Madrid, España

11:30 a.m. | Registration

11:45 a.m. | Welcome

  • Vicente J. Montes Gan, CEO, Rafael del Pino Fundación 
  • Kathleen Stephansen, Senior Economist, Haver Analytics and GIC Vice Chair of Programs

12:00 p.m. | Session I: Financial Technology in Banking/Artificial Intelligence

  • Steve Sexauer, Chief Investment Officer, San Diego County Employee Retirement Association   
  • Jorge Sicilia, Chief Economist, BBVA
  • Luis Maldonado, Senior Digital Financial Services Specialist, IFC (World Bank Group)
  • Moderator: Jeremy Schwartz, Global Head of Research, WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc.

1:15 p.m. | Lunch

2:45 p.m. | Session II: From the Eyes of the Central Banks

  • David Altig, Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
  • Pedro del Río, Head of the International Economics division, Banco de España
  • Massimo Rostagno, Director General, Monetary Policy,  European Central Bank
  • Moderator: Kathleen Stephansen, Senior Economist, Haver Analytics and GIC Vice Chair of Programs

4:00 p.m. | Session III: Economic Outlook

  • Manuel Muñiz, Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership, Dean at IE School of Global and Public Affairs and Senior Associate at Harvard Kennedy School
  • Michael Drury, Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments and GIC Chair Emeritus 
  • Manuel Balmaseda, Chief Economist, CEMEX and GIC Board Member 
  • Moderator: George Tsetsekos, Dean Emeritus and the Francis Professor of Finance at LeBow’s College of Business at Drexel University

5:15 p.m. | Conclusion

  • Kathleen Stephansen, Senior Economist, Haver Analytics and GIC Vice Chair of Programs

Event Location

Date: Thursday, October 3, 2019 - Friday, October 4, 2019

Rafael del Pino Foundation
Calle Rafael Calvo, 39, 28010, Madrid, España

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Speakers

Charles Evans

Charles Evans

President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Charles L. Evans is the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that capacity, he serves on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Federal Reserve System's monetary policymaking body.

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David E. Altig, Ph.D.

David E. Altig, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Dr. David E. Altig is executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In addition to advising the Bank president on monetary policy and related matters, Dr. Altig oversees the Bank's regional executives and the Bank's research department.

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Manuel Balmaseda

Manuel Balmaseda

Chief Economist, CEMEX

Manuel Balmaseda is the Chief Economist at CEMEX, a leading global building materials corporation. Previously he served as Chief Economist for Spain and Europe at BBVA, Chief Economist for Capital Markets at BBV, professor of economics at CEMFI and visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis.

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Luis de Guindos

Luis de Guindos

Vice-President of the European Central Bank

Luis de Guindos has been Vice-President of the European Central Bank since 2018.

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María del Pino

María del Pino

Chairman of the Rafael del Pino Foundation

Degree in Economics and Business Administration (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Management Development Program (IESE). Director of Ferrovial since 2006. Chairman of the Rafael del Pino Foundation.

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Pedro del Río

Pedro del Río

Head of the International Economics Division at the International Economics and Euro Area Department of the Bank of Spain

Pedro del Río has a M.A. in Economics and Finance, CEMFI (Madrid, Spain). B.A. in Economics, Universidad Autónoma Madrid (Madrid, Spain).

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Michael Drury

Michael Drury

Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments

Michael Drury is the chief economist for McVean Trading & Investments, LLC. He joined the firm in 1992, after serving for five years as senior economist with Allen Sinai at Shearson Lehman Brothers and its successor firms. Michael began his career in New York in 1982 as senior economist at A. Gary Shilling and Company. He received his B.S. in economics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and did his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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José M. González-Páramo

José M. González-Páramo

Executive Board member, BBVA

José M. González-Páramo holds a Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.A. in Economics from Columbia University, New York, and a Ph.D. from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1988 he joined the Complutense University of Madrid as a professor of Economics.

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Luis Maldonado, PhD

Luis Maldonado, PhD

Senior Digital Financial Sector Specialist, IFC (World Bank Group)

Luis Maldonado, PhD has developed his entire career in the fields of economics and finance, where he has held senior positions both in the public sector, he was advisor to the Minister of Finance in Spain, and in the private sector. He has an extensive experience in consulting, he was Director of Strategic Consulting for the Financial Sector at PwC in Spain, as well as in the financial industry, as CSO for a retail bank in Spain.

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Vicente Montes Gan

Vicente Montes Gan

Director, Fundacion Rafael del Pino

Director of the Rafael del Pino Foundation, Vicepresident of the United Nations Global Compact Spanish Network, President of the Spanish State Economists Association, Founder and President of the NGO Liberdom and member of the Editorial Boards of the academic magazine Información Comercial Española and Ceteris paribus blog.

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Manuel Muñiz

Manuel Muñiz

Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership, Dean at IE School of Global and Public Affairs and Senior Associate at Harvard Kennedy School

Manuel Muñiz is the Dean of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership. He is also the Founding Director of IE’s Center for the Governance of Change, an institution dedicated to studying the challenges posed by accelerated societal and technological change to the public and private sectors and proposing solutions and frameworks to manage these challenges.

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Rafael Repullo

Rafael Repullo

Professor of Economics and Director of CEMFI

Rafael Repullo is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) in Madrid.

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Donald Rissmiller

Donald Rissmiller

Founding Partner and Chief Economist of Strategas

Mr. Rissmiller is a founding Partner of Strategas and has directed the Firm's macroeconomic research efforts since 2006. He oversees Strategas' thematic research as well as high-frequency econometric forecasting.

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Massimo Rostagno

Massimo Rostagno

Director of Directorate Monetary Policy, ECB Directorate General Economics

Massimo Rostagno is Director of the Directorate Monetary Policy within the ECB’s Directorate General Economics. Before joining the European Central Bank in 1998, he was a research economist at the Banca d’Italia and later desk Economist in the European Department of the IMF. He has written on the political economy of fiscal policy, on the reform of social security, on the history and theory of monetary standards, on stochastic general equilibrium macro-modelling and on monetary economics in general. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and contributed to several other publications.

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Jeremy Schwartz

Jeremy Schwartz

Global Chief Investment Officer, WisdomTree

Jeremy Schwartz has served as our Global Chief Investment Officer since November 2021 and leads WisdomTree’s investment strategy team in the construction of WisdomTree’s equity indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset model portfolios.

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Stephen Sexauer

Stephen Sexauer

Chief Investment Officer, The San Diego County Employees Retirement Association

Stephen Sexauer is SDCERA’s Chief Investment Officer and oversees SDCERA’s $14 billion Trust Fund, investment team, and investment consultants. In addition to the day-to-day operation of SDCERA’s Investment Division, he also assists SDCERA’s Board with determining the Fund’s investment policies, strategy and asset allocation.

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Jorge Sicilia

Jorge Sicilia

Chief Economist, BBVA Group and Director of BBVA Research

Currently Jorge Sicilia is chief economist of BBVA Group and director of BBVA Research. He leads a global team of economists distributed around Europe, US, Mexico, South America and Asia devoted to economic, financial and regulatory analysis. He is a member of BBVA’s ALCO and Regulatory Committee.

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Kathleen Stephansen

Kathleen Stephansen

GIC Chair Emerita, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust Funds

Kathleen Stephansen is GIC Chair Emerita, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust Funds. She is the former Chief Economist of Huawei Technologies, Chief Economist of the American International Group (AIG) and AIG Asset Management’s Senior Strategist and Global Head of Sovereign Research. Prior to joining AIG in 2010, Kathleen was Chief Economist at Aladdin Capital Holdings, Credit Suisse’s Head of Global Economic Research, and Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation’s co-head of Fixed Income economic research and Chief International Economist.

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George Tsetsekos, Ph.D.

George Tsetsekos, Ph.D.

Francis Professor of Finance and Dean Emeritus Drexel’s LeBow College of Business

Dr. George Tsetsekos, serves as the Francis professor of Finance and Director of the Risk Management Center at the LeBow College of Business. He served as Dean of LeBow (2002-2012) and under his transformative leadership the college achieved national rankings and quality milestones in research and teaching.

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