Global Financial Crisis Panel
The Global Financial Crisis Panel is historic in both its scale and severity, and its consequences have shaken the fundamental arguments for the world’s most popular economic model. How did we get to this this point? Will the measures taken to resolve the crisis be enough? What more can be done? Join a panel of experts to listen to and engage in a discussion of the world’s most pressing economic calamity since World War II.
Robert Barbera
Robert Barbera is the Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Investment Technology Group and a Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins. He has led an extensive career in the fi eld of economic research and forecasting. Dr. Barbera’s background extends from academia to the private sector, from lecturing at MIT and working for the Congressional Budget Offi ce to serving as the Chief Economist for E.F. Hutton and Lehman Bothers. He also is a contributing guest to news programs on such television networks as MSNBC.
Albert Kyle
Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, Dr. Kyle focuses on topics such as venture capital and private equity, corporate fi nance, asset pricing, market microstructure, and options pricing. After studying at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Kyle went on to a distinguished career in academia, teaching at Princeton, UC Berkeley, and Duke before settling at Maryland. He was also a member of NASDAQ’s economic advisory board and the Brady Commission after the stock market crash of 1987.
Willem Buiter
Dr. Buiter is the Professor of European Political Economy for the London School of Economics and columnist for the Financial Times. He served on the Monetary Policy Committee for the Bank of England and has advised countless other public and private organizations including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Goldman Sachs.