SUERF in collaboration with CGEG|COLUMBIA|SIPA, the EIB and Société Générale organised a conference on “EU and US Perspectives: Changing climates”.
Common threads are clearly visible in how the United States and Europe are tackling the COVID-19 crisis, be it temporary measures to protect the supply side or seizing the opportunity of green and digital transformations to support recovery medium-to-longer term. The European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve have redesigned monetary policy strategies, while the Biden Administration has reaffirmed US interest in close economic ties with Europe. Moreover, both the US and the EU face questions on how to tackle the broader geopolitical landscape. Behind these commonalities, important differences reside with significant implications in a world of changing climates.
Speakers included:
- Dr Werner Hoyer, President of the EIB
- Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President of the EIB>
- Ricardo Mourinho, Vice-President of the EIB
- Jakob De Haan, SUERF President I Professor of Political Economy, University of Groningen
- François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France
- Philip R. Lane, Member of the ECB’s Executive Board
- Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism
- Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University
- Elga Bartsch, Head of Economic and Markets Research, BlackRock Investment Institute
- Debora Revoltella, Chief economist at the EIB
- Jan Svejnar, Director of the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia University
- Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Societe Generale
- Jeffrey Sachs, Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University