Calendar of Benoît Cœuré Member of the ECB’s Executive Board
January 2018
Date Meeting / Event (incl. topic / meeting participants, as applicable) Location
Sunday, 7 January Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – bi-monthly meetings Basel
Monday, 8 January Meeting with German Ministry of Finance, Mr Levin Holle, on Basel regulatory issues
Financial Stability Board (FSB) Steering Committee Basel
Tuesday, 9 January Executive Board ECB
Governing Council ECB
ECB farewell dinner for Chair of Board of Governors of US ECB Federal Reserve System, Ms Janet Yellen
Thursday, 11 January Eurogroup Working Group Brussels
Friday, 12 January Eurogroup Working Group Brussels
Bellagio Group meeting ECB
Saturday, 13 January Bellagio Group meeting ECB
Monday, 15 January Meeting with Hellenic Bank Association (HBA), on Greek banking ECB system
Meeting with European Investment Bank (EIB), Mr Andrew ECB McDowell and Ms Debora Revoltella, on prospects for investment in the euro area
Tuesday, 16 January Meeting with Graduate Institute of International and Development ECB Studies (Geneva), on digital currencies
Executive Board ECB
Wednesday, 17 January Meeting with Norges Bank, Mr Jon Nicolaisen, Mr Torbjørn ECB Hægeland and Mr Audun Grønn, on issues of common interest
Meeting with media ECB
Meeting with Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the ECB
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European Union, Deputy Minister of Finance, Ms Marinela Petrova, and Deputy Governor of Българска народна банка (Bulgarian National Bank), Mr Kalin Hristov, on the Presidency’s work programme
Meeting with BNP Paribas, on global economic prospects ECB
Meeting with Bruegel, on economic situation in the euro area ECB
Thursday, 18 January Meeting with French Embassy in Berlin, Mr Etienne Oudot de ECB Dainville, on euro area issues
Meeting with Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the ECB International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr Prakash Loungani and Mr Laurence M. Ball, on unconventional monetary policies
Meeting with President of the Eurogroup, Mr Mário Centeno, on ECB Eurogroup priorities
IMF and Deutsche Bundesbank joint conference on “Germany – Frankfurt Current Economic Policy Debates” – participation in concluding panel on “A post-crisis agenda for the euro area and Germany: which way forward?”
Monday, 22 January Meeting with European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Managing Brussels Director, Mr Klaus Regling, on issues of common interest
Meeting with Finance Minister of Greece, Mr Euclid Tsakalotos, Brussels Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, Mr Yannis Dragasakis, and Alternate Minister of Finance of Greece, Mr George Chouliarakis, on the economic adjustment programme for Greece
Eurogroup Brussels
Tuesday, 23 January Executive Board ECB
Meeting with World Bank Treasury, Ms Daniela Klingebiel and ECB Ms Isabelle Strauss-Kahn, on cooperation between the ECB and World Bank
Wednesday, 24 January Governing Council ECB
Thursday, 25 January Governing Council ECB
Friday, 26 January World Economic Forum – participation in panel discussion on Davos “The End of Easy Money”
Meeting with Moore Capital, on global economic prospects Davos
Meeting with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, on global economic Davos prospects
Meeting with Palantir Technologies, on big data Davos
Meeting with CLS Bank International, on issues related to Davos payments
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Monday, 29 January Meeting with media Paris
Presentation to the Commission Économie et Financements du Paris Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF), on economic situation in the euro area and role of the ECB
Tuesday, 30 January Executive Board ECB
Wednesday, 31 January Financial Times European Financial Forum on “Building a New Dublin Future for International Financial Services” – speech on “What yield curves are telling us”
Meeting with media Dublin
International Banking Research Network meeting – address Dublin
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