30 Years of Armenian Dram: Reflecting on the Past and Navigating The New Digital Era
September 2-3, 2023
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Overview
This high-level conference hosted on the occasion of the Armenian Central Bank’s 30th anniversary aimed to relfect on the lessons learned from the Armenian Dram’s three decade journey and explore potential future scenarios particualy in the new digita era.
Program
Opening remarks
H.E. Vahagn Khachaturyan, President, Republic of Armenia
Martin Galstyan, Governor, Central Bank of Armenia
Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, International Mone- tary Fund
Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee
SESSION 1: MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY IN A HIGHER INFLATION ENVIRONMENT
Chair: Armen Nurbekyan, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Armenia
Sayuri Shirai, Senior Fellow, ADBI – online
Athanasios Orphanides, Professor of Economics, MIT
Olivier Garnier, Director General for Economics and International, Banque de France
Federico Sturzenegger, Professor of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés, Adjunct Professor, Harvard Kennedy School, Former Governor, Central Bank of Argentina
Jon Danielsson, London School of Economics, Director of the Systemic Risk Centre
SESSION 2: A GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM TO SERVE THE DIGITAL AND THE GREEN ECONOMY
Chair: Douglas Laxton, Director, Saddle Point Research and the Better Policy Project
Bruno Tissot, Head of the Statistics Department, Bank for International Settlements
Galina Hale, Professor of Economics, University of Santa Cruz
Asgeir Jonsson, Governor, Central Bank of Iceland
Xiaochen Zhang, President, FINTECH4GOOD – online
SESSION 3: MONETARY POLICY AND CENTRAL BANKING: DRIVERS FOR A GENUINE EURASIAN INTEGRATION
Chair: Jihad Azour, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department (MCD), International Monetary Fund
Martin Galstyan, Governor, Central Bank of Armenia
Natela Turnava, Acting Governor, National Bank of Georgia
Mamarizo Nurmuratov, Chairman, Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Akylzhan Baimagambetov, Deputy Governor, National Bank of Kazakhstan
SESSION 4: FROM FIAT MONEY TO CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES FUTURE OF MONEY
Chair: Hovhannes Khachatryan, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Armenia
Rosa Lastra, Professor of International Financial and Monetary Law, Queen Mary University of London – online
Piero Cipollone, Deputy Governor, Banca d’Italia – online
Byadran Lkhagvasuren, Governor, Bank of Mongolia
Salvador Perez-Galindo, Head of Government Relations for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle, East and Africa (CEMEA), Visa
SESSION 5: DERISKING THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM “IMPLICATIONS, FOR TRADE, CAPITAL FLOWS AND EXCHANGE RATES
Chair: Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee
Paola Subacchi, Professor of Economics, QMGPI, Queen Mary University of London
Mihaly Patai, Deputy Governor, National Bank of Hungary
Emilija Nacevska, Vice-Governor, National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia
Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
SESSION 6. DIGITAL CURRENCIES AREAS AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM
Chair: Paola Subacchi, Professor of Economics, QMGPI, Queen Mary University of London
Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University
Jean Pierre Landau, Professor of Economics Sciences Po, French Sherpa for the Finance Summit 2023
John Velissarios, Founder and Director Otranto
