Central Banking Series Event: Madrid
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - Friday, May 15, 2015
Fundación Rafael del Pino, Calle Rafael Calvo, 39
28010 Madrid
Join GIC and BBVA for GIC’s first program in Spain!
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Presentations
- David Altig – 2015 Where is the U.S. Growth?
- Jorge Sicilia – Europe Outlook
- José Manuel González-Paramo – The European Crisis: Institutional Response and the ECB Role
- José Luis Malo de Molina – Spain at a Time of Extraordinary Monetary Challenges
- Kozo Koide – Recent Developments in Japanese Economy & Markets
- Don Rissmiller – U.S. Economic Highlights
- Daniel Sullivan – U.S. Outlook and Implications
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Event Detail
Central Banking Series Event: Madrid
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
Morning: Private Discussion
9 – 9:30 a.m. | Registration and Coffee
9:30 – 9:45 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks
- Vicente J. Montes Gan, Director, Rafael del Pino Foundation
- Don Rissmiller, Chief Economist and Founding Partner, Strategas Research Partners and GIC Vice Chair of Programs
9:45 – 10:30 a.m. | Keynote speech
- José Manuel González Páramo, Executive Director and Chairman of the International Advisory Board BBVA, former member of the ECB Governing Council
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Economic Outlook
- Don Rissmiller, Chief Economist and Founding Partner, Strategas Research Partners and GIC Vice Chair of Programs
- Jorge Sicilia, Chief Economist, BBVA Research
- Manuel Balmaseda, Chief Economist, CEMEX
- Kozo Koide, Chief Economist of DIAM
- Moderated by George Tsetsekos, Dean Emeritus, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University and GIC Chairman Emeritus
12 – 12:30 p.m. | Coffee Break
12:30 – 1:05 p.m. | Keynote Speech
- Massimo Rostagno, Directorate Monetary Policy, ECB
1:05 – 1:35 p.m. | Keynote Speech
- Katarzyna Zajdel Kurowska, Board Member, National Bank of Poland
1:35 – 2:05 p.m. | Keynote Speech
- Manuel Sánchez, Deputy Governor, Bank of Mexico
2:05 – 2:30 p.m. | Q&A Session
- Moderated by Manuel Balmaseda, Chief Economist, CEMEX
2:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Lunch
Afternoon: Public Conference
4:45 – 5 p.m. | Welcoming Remarks
- Vicente J. Montes Gan, Director, Rafael del Pino Foundation
- Jorge Sicilia, Chief Economist, BBVA Research
- George Tsetsekos, Dean Emeritus, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University and GIC Chairman Emeritus
5 – 5:45 p.m. | Keynote Speech “Spain at a Time of Extraordinary Monetary Challenges”
- José Luis Malo de Molina, Director General Economics, Statistics and Research, Bank of Spain
5:30 – 7 p.m. | Central Bankers’ Outlook
- David E. Altig, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
- Daniel G. Sullivan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Livio Stracca, Head of the International Policy Analysis Division, European Central Bank
- Moderated by José Manuel González Páramo, Executive Director and Chairman of the International Advisory Board, BBVA, former member of the ECB Governing Council
7 p.m. | Conclusion
- Don Rissmiller, Chief Economist and Founding Partner, Strategas Research Partners and GIC Vice Chair of Programs
THURSDAY, MAY 14
Private Round Table Discussion
9 – 9:15 a.m. | Registration and Coffee
9:15 – 9:30 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks
- Don Rissmiller, Chief Economist and Founding Partner, Strategas Research Partners and GIC Vice Chair of Programs
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Discussion on the Effectiveness and Future of QE in the US, Japan and Europe
Opening remarks from the following speakers to be followed by a moderated discussion with the audience.
- Jorge Sicilia, Chief Economist, BBVA Research
- Don Rissmiller, Chief Economist and Founding Partner, Strategas Research Partners and GIC Vice Chair of Programs
- Kozo Koide, Chief Economist of DIAM
12:30 p.m. | Conclusion
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Speakers
Manuel Sánchez González
Vice Governor of the Banco de MexicoManuel Sánchez González is a member of the Governing Board and vice governor at the Bank of Mexico, Mexico’s central bank. Prior to this appointment, he was director of investment at Valanza México, the private equity unit of BBVA.
Katarzyna Zajdel-Kurowska
Former Member of the Board of the National Bank of PolandKatarzyna Zajdel-Kurowska is an economist with broad international experience in finance, sustainable development, risk and asset management. Former member of the Executive Board at World Bank Group and Executive Director representing Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
David E. Altig, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of AtlantaDr. 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.
Manuel Balmaseda
Chief Economist, CEMEXManuel 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.
Kozo Koide
Asset Management One Co. LtdKozo Koide is the Chief Economist at Asset Management One Co. Ltd., which is the largest Japanese asset management company with about 52 trillion yen (approximately 505 billion US$) assets under its management in October 2016.
Donald Rissmiller
Founding Partner and Chief Economist of StrategasMr. 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.
Jorge Sicilia
Chief Economist, BBVA Group and Director of BBVA ResearchCurrently 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.
Livio Stracca, Ph.D.
Head of the International Policy Analysis Division in the European Central BankLivio Stracca is head of the International Policy Analysis Division in the European Central Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and a postgraduate degree in European Union Law. He teaches at the University of Frankfurt J.-W. Goethe and has published extensively, mainly in monetary and international economics.
Daniel Sullivan, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of ChicagoDaniel G. Sullivan is director of research and an executive vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He oversees the Bank's research in monetary policy, banking and financial markets, microeconomics and regional economics.
George Tsetsekos, Ph.D.
Francis Professor of Finance and Dean Emeritus Drexel’s LeBow College of BusinessDr. 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.
Massimo Rostagno
Director of Directorate Monetary Policy, ECB Directorate General EconomicsMassimo 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.
José M. González-Páramo
Executive Board member, BBVAJosé 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.
Vicente Montes Gan
Director, Fundacion Rafael del PinoDirector 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.
Jose Luis Malo de Molina
Director General, Banco de EspañaJose Luis Malo de Molina was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1950. Doctor in Economics (with Distinction) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). He lectured in Applied Economics at UCM until 1985.
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