IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: April 14, 2016
DAY: Thursday
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
LOCATION: George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium
Overview
The need to implement structural reforms to help overcome the new mediocre and address growth challenges is becoming increasingly urgent. But doing so isn’t easy. Reforms that have significant long-term payoffs often go against vested interests and populists pressures. This panel will explore how policymakers can overcome these obstacles as they seek to overhaul trade, improve labor and product markets, and undertake fiscal and financial-sector structural changes to invigorate economies.
This session will be broadcast (at a later date); audience members should be in their seats no later than 9:55 a.m. when the doors will close. No filming or flash photography during this seminar.
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Political Economy of Structural Reforms
Political Economy of Structural Reforms
Mauricio Cárdenas has been the Minister of Finance and Public
Credit of Colombia since September 2012. He has been Minister of Mines and
Energy, Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Transport and Director of
the National Planning Department. He has also been the Manager of Bogota’s
Energy Company and Director of the Latin American Initiative at the Brookings
Institution. Minister Cardenas studied economics at the Universidad del los
Andes and has a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley.
Diana Farrell is the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the JPMorgan Chase Institute. Previously, Diana was the Global Head of the McKinsey Center for Government, providing research, proprietary data and other tools to support the government. She served in the White House as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council and Deputy Assistant to the President on Economic Policy from 2009-2011. A graduate of Wesleyan University, she holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Min Zhu was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on July 26, 2011. Previously he was a Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China, responsible for international affairs, policy research, and credit information. He served as the Group Executive Vice President of Bank of China before joining the country’s Central Bank. He also worked at the World Bank and taught economics at both Johns Hopkins University and Fudan University. He holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.