Bruegel Annual Meetings 1-3 September, 2020

Bruegel's flagship event transformed into a virtual conference for pandemic times

Date and time: 1–3 September 2020

On 1-3 September 2020 Bruegel held its Annual Meetings. During three days of online discussions we discussed the most urgent economic questions facing Europe and the world.

The world is currently facing an unprecedented challenge. In addition to wreaking havoc in our healthcare systems COVID-19 has also caused a sudden and unforeseen economic crisis. Governments around the world are struggling to safeguard jobs and livelihoods. Under these circumstances, will these same governments be able to keep earlier promises they made, such as combating climate change? Will the crisis hasten the changes to our working lives that were already on the horizon? The various responses around the world are also causing people to ask questions about privacy and democratic values. Once this crisis is over we will need an extensive recovery programme. But what kind of world do we want to return to? Is this the moment to re-think how we do things?

All of the individual sessions recordings can be found in the agenda.

Speakers

Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director
Maria Demertzis
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Chairman, Group of Thirty, Singapore

Summary by Monika Grzegorczyk

Chair: Erkki Liikanen, Chairman of the Board
Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director
Jean-Claude Trichet, Honorary Chairman of Bruegel
Janet Yellen, Former Chairwoman, United States Federal Reserve, Brookings Institution
Xiaochuan Zhou, Vice chairman

Summary by Monika Grzegorczyk

Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director
Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President of the European Green Deal, European Commission

Summary by Tom Schraepen

Chair: André Sapir, Senior fellow
Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Summary by Marta Domínguez-Jiménez

Chair: Grégory Claeys, Senior fellow
Marco Buti, Chief of Staff of the Commissioner for the economy, Paolo Gentiloni, European Commission
Karolina Ekholm, Member of the Board
Reza Moghadam, Chief Economic Advisor, Morgan Stanley

This closed-door session was not be livestreamed.

Chair: Maria Demertzis
Robert Holzmann, Governor, National Bank of Austria
Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Rolf Strauch, Chief Economist and Management Board Member, European Stability Mechanism
Sophie Vermeille

Summary by Julia Anderson

Chair: Simone Tagliapietra, Senior fellow
Barbara Frei, Executive Vice President Europe Operations, Schneider Electric
Steven Fries, Chief Economist, Shell
Samantha Smith, Director, Just Transition Centre, International Trade Union Confederation
Georg Zachmann, Senior fellow

Summary by Ben McWilliams

Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director
Tito Boeri, President, Italian National Social Security Institute
Susan Lund, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Shamina Singh, Founder & President and Executive Vice President, Sustainability at Mastercard, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Summary by Mia Hoffmann

Chair: J. Scott Marcus, Senior fellow
Francesca Bria, Chairman, CDP Venture Capital SGR- Italian Innovation Fund
Georgios Petropoulos, Non-resident fellow
Gerard de Graaf, Director of Digital Single Market, European Commission, DG CONNECT
Alberto di Felice, Director for Infrastructure, Privacy and Security, Digital Europe

Summary by Julia Anderson

Chair: Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior fellow
Piotr Arak, Director, Polish Economic Institute
Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor, King’s College London
Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America
Alexander Stubb, Director, School of Transnational Governance, EUI; (Online)
Nathalie Tocci, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali

Summary by Lionel Jeanrenaud

Chair: Alicia García-Herrero, Senior fellow
Anna Gelpern, Professor of Law and Agnes N. Williams Research Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Isabelle Mateos y Lago, Member of the Board
Atif Mian, John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor in Public Policy and Finance; Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, Princeton University

Summary by Monika Grzegorczyk

Chair: Jennifer Rankin, Brussels correspondent, The Guardian
Giuseppe Porcaro, Head of Outreach, Governance and Human Resources
Jessica Woodworth, Film director, screenwriter and producer

Reopening Europe

Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior fellow
Olivier Guersent, Director General, European Commission, DG COMP
Philipp Steinberg, Director-General of Economic Policy, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany

This closed-door session was not livestreamed.

Chair: Santina Bertulessi, Deputy Head, Cabinet of Nicolas Schmiter for Jobs and Social Rights, European Commission
Philippe Lamberts, Member of the, European Parliament
Martin Sandbu, European Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Summary by Klaas Lenaerts

Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director
Maria Demertzis
Olaf Scholz, Minister of finance, Germany

Summary by Lionel Jeanrenaud

Chair: Nicolas Véron, Senior fellow
Elena Carletti, Member of the Scientific Council
Benoît Coeuré, President, French Competition Authority
Alexandra Dimitrijevic, Managing Director, Global Head of Research, S&P Global Ratings
Martin Merlin, Director - Bank, insurance and financial crime, European Commission, DG FISMA
Pierre Wunsch, Governor, National Bank of Belgium

Summary by Marta Domínguez-Jiménez

Chair: Uri Dadush, Non-resident fellow
Koen Doens, Director General, European Commission, DG DEVCO
Hafez Ghanem, Vice president, World Bank
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, First Female President, Liberia
Trudi Makhaya, Advisor to the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa
Patricia Obo-Nai, CEO, Vodafone Ghana

Summary by Ben McWilliams

Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Former Director
Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Summary by Julia Anderson

Theme: European governance Global economy and trade Digital economy and innovation Banking and capital markets Green economy Macroeconomic policies Inclusive economy
Keyword: eu governance
Series: Annual meetings
Language: English