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Pdfroster of Attendees The Participants SHAGHIL AHMED PETER BARNES Chief of Emerging Market Economies Senior Washington Correspondent Board of Governors of the Fox Business News Federal Reserve System ERDEM BAŞÇI SINAN ALSHABIBI Governor Governor and Chairman Central Bank of the Central Bank of Iraq Republic of Turkey BINYAMIN APPLEBAUM CHARLES R. BEAN Correspondent Deputy Governor The New York Times Bank of England JEANNINE AVERSA STEVEN K. BECKNER Reporter Senior Correspondent Bloomberg News Market News International ALAN D. BARKEMA FRED BERGSTEN Senior Vice President and Director Director of Research Peterson Institute for Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City International Economics MARTIN BARNES NILS BERNSTEIN Chief Economist Governor BCA Research Danmarks Nationalbank 467 468 The Participants ALAN S. BLINDER LUC COENE Professor Governor Princeton University National Bank of Belgium SARAH BLOOM RASKIN LU CÓRDOVA Governor Chief Executive Officer Board of Governors of the Corlund Industries Federal Reserve System CARLOS DA SILVA COSTA ALAN BOLLARD Governor Governor Bank of Portugal Reserve Bank of New Zealand PAUL DEBRUCE LAEL BRAINARD Chief Executive Officer and Founder Under Secretary for DeBruce Grain, Inc. International Affairs U.S. Department of the Treasury SERVAAS DEROOSE Deputy Director-General JAMES B. BULLARD European Commission President and Chief Executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis LUCA DI LEO Journalist MICHELE BULLOCK Dow Jones Newswires Assistant Governor Reserve Bank of Australia WILLIAM C. DUDLEY President and Chief Executive Officer MARK CARNEY Federal Reserve Bank of New York Governor Bank of Canada ELIZABETH A. DUKE Governor AGUSTÍN CARSTENS Board of Governors of the Governor Federal Reserve System Bank of Mexico DOUGLAS W. ELMENDORF NORMAN CHAN Director Chief Executive Congressional Budget Office Hong Kong Monetary Authority The Participants 469 WILLIAM B. ENGLISH AUSTAN GOOLSBEE Director of Monetary Affairs Professor Board of Governors of the University of Chicago Federal Reserve System MÁR GUDMUNDSSON MARTIN FELDSTEIN Governor President Emeritus, National Bureau Central Bank of Iceland of Economic Research Professor, Harvard University ANGEL GURRÍA Secretary-General MARK FELSENTHAL Organisation for Economic Correspondent Co-operation and Development Reuters PENTTI HAKKARAINEN CAMDEN FINE Deputy Governor President and Chief Executive Officer Bank of Finland Independent Community Bankers of America CRAIG S. HAKKIO Senior Vice President and STANLEY FISCHER Special Advisor on Economic Policy Governor Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Bank of Israel ROBIN HARDING JACOB A. FRENKEL U.S. Economics Editor Chairman Financial Times JPMorgan Chase JAN HATZIUS ESTHER L. GEORGE Chief Economist First Vice President and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Chief Operating Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City PHILIPP M. HILDEBRAND JOSÉ MANUEL GONZÁLEZ- Chairman PÁR AMO Swiss National Bank Executive Board Member European Central Bank JON HILSENRATH Chief Economics Correspondent The Wall Street Journal 470 The Participants THOMAS M. HOENIG CHOONGSOO KIM President and Chief Executive Officer Governor Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City The Bank of Korea PATRICK HONOHAN KLAAS KNOT Governor President Central Bank of Ireland De Nederlandsche Bank N.V. R. GLENN HUBBARD EDWARD S. KNOTEK II Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor Vice President and Economist of Finance and Economics Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Graduate School of Business, Columbia University DONALD L. KOHN Senior Fellow STEFAN INGVES Brookings Institution Governor Sveriges Riksbank GEORGE KOPITS Professor NEIL IRWIN Central European University National Economy Correspondent The Washington Post JEAN-PIERRE LANDAU Deputy Governor IVAN ISKROV Bank of France Governor Bulgarian National Bank JONG KUN LEE Chief Representative EUGENE KANDEL Bank of Korea, New York Head of the National Representative Office Economic Council Israel Prime Minister’s Office MICKEY D. LEVY Chief Economist ELIAS LESETJA KGANYAGO Bank of America Deputy Governor South African Reserve Bank STEVE LIESMAN Senior Economics Reporter CNBC The Participants 471 JUSTIN YIFU LIN ZANNY MINTON BEDDOES Senior Vice President and Economics Editor Chief Economist The Economist The World Bank RAKESH MOHAN LAWRENCE LINDSEY Professor President and Chief Executive Officer Yale University The Lindsey Group ALBERTO G. MUSALEM JOHN LIPSKY Managing Director and Partner First Deputy Managing Director Tudor Investment Corporation International Monetary Fund EWALD NOWOTNY DENNIS P. LOCKHART Governor President and Chief Executive Officer Central Bank of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Republic of Austria PHILIPPA MALMGREN PAUL F. O’BRIEN President Head of Fixed Income Strategy Principalis Asset Management Abu Dhabi Investment Authority MIKE MCKEE ØYSTEIN OLSEN Economics Editor Governor Bloomberg Television Norges Bank ALLAN H. MELTZER ATHANASIOS ORPHANIDES Professor Governor Carnegie Mellon University Central Bank of Cyprus R AVI MENON GUILLERMO ORTIZ Managing Director Former Governor Monetary Authority of Singapore Bank of Mexico YVES MERSCH SANDRA PIANALTO Governor President and Chief Executive Officer Central Bank of Luxembourg Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 472 The Participants CHARLES I. PLOSSER JOHN SILVIA President and Chief Executive Officer Chief Economist Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Wells Fargo JAMES POTERBA ANDRÁS SIMOR President Governor National Bureau of Economic The Central Bank of Hungary Research ALLEN SINAI PETER PRAET Chief Global Economist Executive Board Member Decision Economics, Inc. European Central Bank MIROSLAV SINGER DIANE M. RALEY Governor Senior Vice President and Czech National Bank Public Information Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City MICHELLE A. SMITH Assistant to the Board and MARTIN REDRADO Division Director Professor of International Economics Board of Governors of the Federal Catholic University of Buenos Aires Reserve System HARVEY ROSENBLUM DEJAN ŜOŠKIĆ Executive Vice President and Governor Director of Research National Bank of Serbia Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas DANIEL G. SULLIVAN ROBERTO SALINAS-LEÓN Executive Vice President and President Director of Research Mexico Business Forum Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago HAROUTIOUN SAMUELIAN DIANE SWONK Vice Governor Chief Economist Central Bank of Lebanon Mesirow Financial MASAAKI SHIRAKAWA JOHN B. TAYLOR Governor Professor, Stanford University Bank of Japan Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution The Participants 473 ALEXANDRE ANTONIO DAVID WILCOX TOMBINI Director, Division of Research Governor and Statistics Central Bank of Brazil Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System JOSEF TOŠOVSKỲ Chairman, Financial Stability JOHN C. WILLIAMS Institute President and Chief Executive Officer Bank for International Settlements Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco UMAYYA S. TOUKAN PAUL WISEMAN Former Governor Reporter Central Bank of Jordan The Associated Press JOSÉ DARÍO URIBE ESCOBAR RICH WOBBEKIND Governor President Central Bank of Colombia National Association for Business Economics JULIO VELARDE Governor YUTAKA YAMAGUCHI Central Reserve Bank of Peru Senior Economic Adviser Nomura Holdings, Inc. KEVIN M. WARSH Distinguished Visiting Fellow JANET YELLEN Stanford University Vice Chair Board of Governors of the AXEL A. WEBER Federal Reserve System Professor University of Chicago NIU YU Deputy Representative, JENS WEIDMANN Office of the Americas President People’s Bank of China Deutsche Bundesbank KEI-MU YI Senior Vice President and MEREDITH WHITNEY Director of Research Chief Executive Officer Meredith Whitney Advisory Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Group, LLC 474 The Participants FABRIZIO ZAMPOLLI Senior Economist Bank for International Settlements SHENGHUI ZHANG Chief Representative Office of the Americas People’s Bank of China ROBERT B. ZOELLICK President The World Bank.
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