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The Participants TOBIAS ADRIAN JEANNINE AvERSA Senior Economist Economics Writer Federal Reserve Bank of New York Associated Press 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 Bank of England HAMAD AL-SAYARI Governor STEVEN BECKNER Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency Senior Correspondent Market News International SINAN ALSHABIBI Governor C. FRED BERGSTEN Central Bank of Iraq Director Peterson Institute for DAVID E. ALTIG International Economics Senior Vice President and Director of Research RICHARD BERNER Federal Reserve Bank 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 679 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 MARK CARNEY 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 Bank of Spain 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. Goldman Sachs & Company INGIMUNDUR FRIDRIKSSON THOMAS M. HOENIG Governor President and Chief Central Bank of Iceland Executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City TIMOTHY GEITHNER 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 The Washington Post 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 Danmarks Nationalbank Chief U.S. Economics Correspondent Financial Times 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 Bank of France 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 Cleveland 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 Argentina 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 The New York Times 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 08 Book.indb 685 2/13/09 3:59:24 PM.
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