Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

   Opening Conference

    New York, USA

     September 20-21, 1994

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Overview

This RBWC launching event was carried out to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference. At the time we were already discussing the need for a new global financial architecture. Indeed from the onset, the importance of the global economy adapting to the emergence of a new set of actors (the concept of global financial architecture was not yet very well developed) was a guiding premise for RBWC.  Discussions centered around the IMF’s role in surveillance, the need for target zones and the ERM 2 crisis. Jeffrey Sachs’ paper on a Chapter 11 process for the global financial system to deal with sovereign default also stimulated a great deal of debate. Two months later, the Mexican crisis erupted. Who would have anticipated that what started in the course of this conference would develop into an agenda continued for the next 20 years! The proceedings of this conference were published in a book entitled The Financial System Under Stress: An Architecture for the New World Economy. 

Agenda

Speakers

  • Marc UZAN: Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee
  • Christian STALS: Governor, South African Reserve Bank
  • Ronald I. MCKINNON: Professor of Economics, Stanford University
  • Richard COOPER: Professor of Economics, Harvard University
  • Manuel GUITIAN: Associate Director, Monetary and Exchange Rate, International Monetary Fund
  • Michel SAPIN: Member of the Open Committee, Bank of France
  • Jorge BRAGA DE MACEDO: Professor of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Hervé CARRE: Director of Monetary Affairs, European Commission
  • Alberto GIOVANNI: Professor of Economics, Columbia University
  • John LIPSKY: Chief Economist, Salomon Brothers
  • Jim O’NEILL: Managing Director Global Research, Swiss Bank Corporation
  • Helmut SCHLESINGER: Former President, Deutsche Bundesbank
  • Jürgen VON HAGEN: Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim
  • Paul DE GRAUWE: Professor of Economics, University of Louvain
  • Howard KURZ: Managing Director, Proprietary Trading, Lehman Brothers
  • David MULLINS: Managing Director, Long Term Capital Management
  • Stephen YORKE: Vice-President, Chase Manhattan Bank
  • Alexander SWOBODA: Executive Director, International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, Switzerland
  • Avinash PERSAUD: Vice-President, J.P Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
  • Hans HUFSCHMIND: Managing Director, Salomon Brothers
  • T.J. LIM: Managing Director, Merrill Lynch International
  • Francis SCOTLAND: Managing Director, International Bank Credit Analyst
  • Richard WITTEN: Partner, Goldman Sachs
  • Miles KAHLER: Senior Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations
  • Reimut JOCHIMSEN: President, State Central Bank in North Rhne-Westphalia
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