The new global crisis: what have we done wrong and what do we do now?

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The new global crisis: what have we done wrong and what do we do now?

The new global crisis: what have we done wrong and what do we do now?

The new global crisis: what have we done wrong and what do we do now – Panel Discussion at Polish House Davos 2023

The world is going through a poly-crisis of high inflation, slowing economic growth, lingering effects of COVID-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, geopolitical tensions and climate change. What should we have done differently, especially to prevent high inflation? What are the baseline, upside and downside scenarios going forward? What economic policies should Europe, the US and the rest of the world adopt to mitigate the crises and re-start fast, just and green growth?

Keynote: Minister of Finance Magdalena Rzeczkowska

Moderator: Prof. Marcin Piątkowski (Kozminski University and The World Bank)

Speakers: Martin Wolf (Financial Times), Prof. Raghuram G. Rajan (University of Chicago)

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Marcin Piątkowski

Kozminski University and The World Bank

 

Prof. Marcin Piatkowski is Professor of Economics at Kozminski University in Warsaw and Lead Economist at the World Bank in Washington DC. Previously, he was Chief Economist of PKO BP, the largest bank in Poland, economist in the European Department of the IMF and Advisor to IMF’s Executive Director. He also served as Advisor to Poland’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, London Business School and the OECD Development Center. He wrote a book on Europe’s Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland, Oxford University Press 2018, which received the prize of “The Best Book in Economics in 2019” by the Polish Academy of Sciences and was reviewed by the Financial Times. In his free time, he enjoys running, reading about history and dancing. He tweets at @mmpiatkowski. His personal website is at www.marcinpiatkowski.com.

 

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Martin Wolf

Financial Times

 

Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 „for services to financial journalism”. Martin Wolf is a powerful and authoritative British writer on economics, he is a famous journalist who is currently associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He has a unique perspective and he offers economic opinion on the state of Europe, the US and the rest of the world. For the Financial Times, Wolf writes a weekly column on the world economy and a fortnightly column on the UK. Martin Wolf was born in London in 1946 to Jewish parents who had escaped Europe to avoid the Holocaust. Wolf claims his family roots were the reason he decided to pursue economics as a career as he believed the (second) World War was caused mainly due to socio-economic reasons. He attended Oxford, where he received his undergraduate degree from Corpus Christi College. He later attended Nuffield College (also at Oxford) where he received his MPhil in economics. Here he mainly studied the importance of international trade in developing economies. Wolf was always a fan of practical economics and supposedly did not pursue a PhD because he did not want to turn into just an academic.

 

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Raghuram G Rajan

The University of Chicago

 

Professor Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School. He was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 2013 and 2016, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements (2015-16) and Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003- 2006). Dr. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development. His book Fault Lines won the Financial Times prize for best business book in 2010 and his most recent book, The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State hold the Community Behind, was a finalist for the award in 2019. Dr. Rajan was the President of the American Finance Association (AFA) and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the AFA’s inaugural Fischer Black Prize in 2003, the Deutsche Bank Prize for financial economics in 2013, Euromoney magazine’s Central Banker of the Year award in 2014, and The Banker magazine’s Global Central Banker award in 2016. Rajan is Senior Economic Advisor to BDT Capital, a Managing Director at Andersen, and a member of the governing board of KREA University, the Economic Advisory Panel Federal Reserve Bank of New York and of the IMF Managing Director’s External Advisory Group.

 

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