Breakfast Club 01: The Global Economy at Risk – Again?!
curated by the European Forum Alpbach, supported by Boston Consulting Group
-
Hayek-Saal
Breakout
/
in englischer SpracheSovereign and corporate debt levels continue to rise in many parts of the world. This macroeconomic breakfast club discusses whether the global economy is facing similar systemic risks that have led to a near collapse in the past.
| |||||
| |||||
| |||||
|
PhD Lucrezia REICHLIN
Professor, London Business School, London
| 1994-2005 | Professor, Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles |
| 2005-2008 | Director, General Research, European Central Bank, Frankfurt |
| since 2011 | Chairman, Co-Founder, Now-Casting Economics LTD, London |
Lucas GUTTENBERG
Deputy Director, Jaques Delors Institute, Berlin
| Lucas Guttenberg is Deputy Director of the Jacques Delors Institute Berlin and leads our policy work on European economic policy. His own research focuses mainly on institutional developments in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), a matter he had also covered as economist in the European Central Bank’s EU Institutions and Fora Division. Prior to joining JDI, he worked as an advisor to the ECB’s Permanent Representative in Washington, DC. Lucas holds a BA from SciencesPo Paris and an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a McCloy Fellow. |
Mag. Wilhelm HEMETSBERGER
Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Ithuba Capital AG, Vienna
| 1979-1984 | MA, Economics, University of Vienna |
| 1984-1985 | Postgraduate Studies, International Relations, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna |
| 1985-1987 | Postgraduate Studies, Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 1988-1990 | Fund Manager, Sparinvest KAG, Vienna |
| 1990-1994 | Head of Equity Trading und Sales, GiroCredit und Bank der Sparkassen, Vienna |
| 1994-1998 | Head of Structured Derivatives Europe, Head of Structured Equity Derivatives in Emerging Markets, Citibank International plc, London |
| 1998-2001 | Chief Executive Officer, CA IB Investmentbank AG, Vienna |
| 2001-2008 | Member, Managing Board, Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG |
| 2006-2008 | Head of Global Markets, Member of Executive Committee, UniCredit Group, Markets & Investment Banking |
| since 2008 | Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Ithuba Capital AG |
Mag. MA Veronika BAUMGARTNER-PUTZ
Senior Advisor, Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance, Vienna
| Veronika Baumgartner-Putz is a Senior Advisor for International Financial Institutions (IFIs) at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance. She has wide-ranging experience in the fields of development finance and cooperation. From July 2018 until July 2019 she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), based in Beijing, where she represented the then twelve Euro-Area member countries of the Bank as their Director. From July 2015 to June 2016 she was an Alternate Director for Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Turkey and the UK at the Asian Development Bank’s Board of Directors in Manila. Before that she held a variety of economic policy related positions at the Ministry of Finance, mostly focusing on IFIs. Previously, before joining the Ministry in 2010, she worked with, among others, UNDP, the European Commission, the Austrian Development Agency and the private sector. Veronika Baumgartner-Putz holds a law degree from the University of Vienna and an MA in Political Economy from the University of Essex, UK. |
