Expand your network by meeting top policymakers and researchers as experts from across the globe present and discuss new research on central banks, global economies, and financial systems.
THE QATAR CENTRE FOR GLOBAL BANKING & FINANCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024
1st & 2nd JULY – BUSH HOUSE, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Sarah Breeden
Deputy Governor, Financial Stability at the Bank of England
Sarah Breeden is Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England. She is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee, Prudential Regulation Committee and the Bank’s Court of Directors. Sarah also leads the Bank of England’s work on climate change, domestically and internationally, a role she has held since 2016. She has been a Steering Group member of the international central bank and supervisors’ Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) since its inception in 2017, and chaired its macrofinancial workstream from 2018 until early 2022. Sarah joined the Bank in 1991. Prior to her current role, Sarah was the Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk and a member of the Financial Policy Committee.
Gauti Eggertsson
Professor of Economics and Director Orlando Bravo Centre for Economic Research at Brown University
Gauti B. Eggertsson is a macroeconomist and a Professor of Economics at Brown University Economics Department. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2004, after having completed his B.S. in economics from the University of Iceland. He has worked at Research Departments of the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since graduation he has also been visiting faculty at Princeton, Yale, and Columbia where he taught international finance and macroeconomics at both graduate and undergraduate level. Eggertsson has published in a variety of professional journals such as the American Economic Review. The main focus of his work is the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy over the business cycle, both from a modern and historical perspective.
Inflation Panel
Professor Ana Galvao
Senior Economist, Bloomberg
Professor Leonardo Melosi
Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
Cynthia Wu
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame
Egon Zakrajsek
Executive vice president & director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
DISCOVER HOW OUR EXPERTS ARE NAVIGATING THE CHALLENGES OF TODAY
Expand your network by meeting top policymakers and researchers as experts from across the globe present and discuss new research on central banks, global economies, and financial systems.
WHY ATTEND?
Learn from global leaders
The conference provides a platform for monetary, financial, and banking experts to present cutting edge research and discuss pressing policy problems.
Networking opportunities
Connect with an array of academics, researchers, and policymakers from around the globe. The QCGBF annual conference provides a unique opportunity to grow your network – in a diverse and friendly setting.
Engage and foster research opportunities
If you are an academic or researcher, then the conference offers you the chance to showcase your work, receive feedback, and collaborate with fellow researchers.
Travel grants
QCGBF takes very seriously issues of accessibility, as reflected in the availability of travel grants for PhD students from all over the UK to attend.
THE QATAR CENTRE FOR GLOBAL BANKING & FINANCE
The Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance is a research centre at King’s Business School, King’s College London dedicated to the study of central banks and the challenges they face in the global environment. It aims to develop cutting-edge research in all areas of central bank policymaking, ranging from monetary policy to financial stability and regulation.
