The Participants

Tobias Adrian Jeannine Aversa Senior Economist Economics Writer Bank of New York

Shamshad Akhtar Martin H. Barnes Governor Managing Editor, State Bank of Pakistan The Bank Credit Analyst BCA Research Lewis Alexander Chief Economist Charles Bean Citi Deputy Governor Hamad Al-Sayari Governor Steven Beckner Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency Senior Correspondent Market News International Sinan Alshabibi Governor C. Fred Bergsten of Iraq Director Peterson Institute for David E. Altig international Economics Senior Vice President and Director of Research Richard Berner of Atlanta Co-Head, Global Economics Morgan Stanley, Inc. Shuhei Aoki General Manager for the Americas Brian Blackstone Bank of Japan Special Writer Dow Jones Newswires

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08 Book.indb 679 2/13/09 3:59:24 PM 680 The Participants Alan Bollard José R. De Gregorio Governor Governor Reserve Bank of New Zealand Central Bank of Chile

Hendrik Brouwer Servaas Deroose Executive Director Director De Nederlandsche Bank European Commission

James B. Bullard William C. Dudley President and Chief Executive Vice President executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of New York Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Robert H. Dugger Maria Teodora Cardoso Managing Director Member of the Board of Directors Tudor Investment Corporation Bank of Portugal Elizabeth A. Duke Governor Governor Board of Governors of the Bank of Canada federal Reserve System

John Cassidy Charles L. Evans Staff Writer President and Chief The New Yorker executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Luc Coene Deputy Governor Mark Felsenthal National Bank of Belgium Correspondent Reuters Lu Córdova Chief Executive Officer Miguel Fernández Corlund Industries oRdÓÑez Governor Andrew Crockett President JPMorgan Chase International Camden R. Fine President and Chief Paul DeBruce executive Officer President Independent Community DeBruce Grain, Inc. bankers of America

08 Book.indb 680 2/13/09 3:59:24 PM The Participants 681 Jacob A. Frenkel Jan Hatzius Vice Chairman Chief U.S. Economist American International Group, Inc. & Company

Ingimundur Fridriksson Thomas M. Hoenig Governor President and Chief Central Bank of Iceland executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President and Chief Robert Glenn Hubbard executive Officer Professor Federal Reserve Bank of New York Graduate School of Business, columbia University Svein Gjedrem Governor Greg Ip Norges Bank U.S. Economics Editor The Economist Austan Goolsbee Professor Neil Irwin Graduate School of Business, National Economy Correspondent university of Chicago

Tony Grimes Radovan Jelasic Director General Governor Central Bank and National Bank of Serbia financial Services authority of Ireland hugo frey jensen Director Krishna Guha Chief U.S. Economics Correspondent Thomas Jordan Member of the Governing Board Craig S. Hakkio Swiss National Bank Senior Vice President and Special advisor on Economic Policy Sue Kirchhoff Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Reporter USA Today Ethan Harris Chief U.S. Economist Donald L. Kohn Lehman Brothers, Inc. Vice Chairman Board of Governors of the federal Reserve System

08 Book.indb 681 2/13/09 3:59:24 PM 682 The Participants George Kopits Lawrence Lindsey Member of the Monetary Council President and Chief National Bank of Hungary executive Officer The Lindsey Group Randall Kroszner Governor Dennis P. Lockhart Board of Governors of the President and Chief federal Reserve System executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Jeffrey M. Lacker President and Chief Philip Lowe executive Officer Assistant Governor Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Reserve Bank of Australia

Jean-Pierre Landau Brian Madigan Deputy Governor Director, Division of Monetary Affairs Board of Governors of the Scott Lanman federal Reserve System Reporter Bloomberg News John H. Makin Principal Ju-Yeol Lee Caxton Associates, Inc. Deputy Governor The Bank of Korea Philippa Malmgren Chairman Mickey D. Levy Canonbury Group Limited Chief Economist Bank of America Tito T. Mboweni Governor Steven Liesman South African Reserve Bank Senior Economics Reporter CNBC Paul McCulley Managing Director Erkki Liikanen Pacific Investment Governor Management Company Bank of Finland Henrique De Campos Justin Yifu Lin Meirelles Senior Vice President and Governor chief Economist Central Bank of Brazil The World Bank

08 Book.indb 682 2/13/09 3:59:24 PM The Participants 683 Allan Meltzer Kiyohiko G. Nishimura University Professor of Deputy Governor political Economy Bank of Japan Carnegie Mellon University Peter Orszag Yves Mersch Director Governor Congressional Budget Office Central Bank of Luxembourg Sandra Pianalto Mário Mesquita President and Chief Deputy Governor executive Officer Central Bank of Brazil Federal Reserve Bank of

Loretta Mester Charles I. Plosser Senior Vice President and President and Chief director of Research executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia philadelphia Diane M. Raley Laurence H. Meyer Vice President and Public Vice Chairman information Officer Macroeconomic Advisers Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Frederic S. Mishkin Governor Robert H. Rasche Board of Governors of the Senior Vice President and federal Reserve System director of Research Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Rakesh Mohan Deputy Governor Sudeep Reddy Reserve Bank of India Economics Reporter The Wall Street Journal Michael H. Moskow Vice Chairman and Senior Fellow Martin Redrado for the Global Economy President The Chicago Council on Central Bank of global Affairs Irma Rosenberg Kevin Muehring First Deputy Governor Senior Managing Director Sveriges Riksbank Medley Global Advisors

08 Book.indb 683 2/13/09 3:59:24 PM 684 The Participants Harvey Rosenblum Michelle A. Smith Executive Vice President and Assistant to the Board and director of Research division Director Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Board of Governors of the federal Reserve System Eric S. Rosengren President and Chief Mark S. Sniderman executive Officer Executive Vice President Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Fabrizio Saccomanni Gene Sperling Deputy Governor Senior Fellow for Economic Studies Bank of Italy Council on Foreign Relations

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel David J. Stockton Chief Economist Director, Division of Research Organisation for Economic and Statistics co-operation and Development Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Gordon H. Sellon, Jr. Senior Vice President and Daniel Sullivan director of Research Senior Vice President and Federal Reserve Bank director of Research of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Nathan Sheets Lawrence H. Summers Director, International Managing Director finance Division D.E. Shaw Board of Governors of the federal Reserve System Phillip L. Swagel Assistant Secretary for Allen Sinai economic Policy Chief Global Economist U.S. Treasury Department Decision Economics, Inc. Josef Tosŏvský Slawomir Skrzypek Chairman, Financial President Stability Institute National Bank of Poland Bank for International Settlements

Umayya S. Toukan Governor Central Bank of Jordan

08 Book.indb 684 2/13/09 3:59:24 PM The Participants 685 Joseph Tracy Janet L. Yellen Executive Vice President and President and Chief director of Research executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of New York Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Jean-Claude Trichet President Durmuş Yilmaz European Central Bank Governor Central Bank of the ZdenĔk TŮma Republic of Turkey Governor Czech National Bank Peter Zoellner Executive Director Gertrude Tumpel- Austrian National Bank gugerell Member of the Executive Board European Central Bank

Louis Uchitelle Economics Writer

José Darío Uribe General Manager Bank of the Republic, Colombia

Julio Velarde Governor Central Reserve Bank of Peru

Kevin M. Warsh Governor Board of Governors of the federal Reserve System

Axel A. Weber President Deutsche Bundesbank

John A. Weinberg Senior Vice President and director of Research Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

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