The Uncertain Future of Global Economic Integration

A conference titled The uncertain future of global economic integration was held in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center, Reykjavik, Iceland on 14-15 September 2017. The conference was jointly organised by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee and the Central Bank of Iceland. The aim of the conference was to assess the current state and future of global economic and financial integration and to analyse how individual country responses on the one hand and reforms to the international monetary and financial systems on the other hand might affect that future.

Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, was the keynote speaker of the conference.

Programme
Opening remarks: Már Guðmundsson, Governor, Central Bank of Iceland Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee
Jaime Caruana, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements Keynote speech: International Arrangements for a Resilient Global Economy
SESSION I Global Trends and Country Responses Erik Berglöf, Professor and Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics Reforming Global Financial Governance - Evolution or Revolution? Sigríður Benediktsdóttir, Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University Ten Years After the Onset of the Global Financial Crisis, Global Trends and Country Responses Chair: Arnór Sighvatsson, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Iceland
SESSION II A New Chapter for the International Monetary and Financial Systems Tao Zhang, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund A Stronger International Monetary System: Filling Gaps in the Global Financial Safety Net Rakesh Mohan, Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University and former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India International Monetary and Financial System, Where Do We Need to Go? Jean-Pierre Landau, Professor and former Deputy Governor, Banque de France The Search for Symmetry in the International Monetary System Chair: Jón Sigurgeirsson, Director, Governor's Office and International Relations, Central Bank of Iceland
SESSION III Policy Panel: Filling the Current Vacuum of the Oversight of the Global Economy and the International Monetary and Financial Systems Panelists: Stefan Ingves, Governor, Sveriges Riksbank Mario Blejer, Visiting Professor at the Institute for Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and former Governor, Bank of Argentina Jaime Caruana, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements Boris Vujcic, Governor, Bank of Croatia Moderator: Már Guðmundsson, Governor, Central Bank of Iceland