34th SUERF Colloquium and Banque de France Symposium 2019 | Société Universitaire Européenne de Recherches | 28 March 2019 | Banque De France, 22 Rue du Colonel Driant, 75001 Paris, France

SUERF is the abbreviation of the Association’s original name "Société Universitaire Européenne de Recherches Financières", under which the Association was originally registered.

SUERF is a non-profit association established on 25 November 1963 in Louveciennes, France, by a group of academics and bankers from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium. SUERF’s focus is on the analysis, discussion and understanding of financial markets and institutions, the monetary economy, the conduct of regulation, supervision and monetary policy, and related issues.

SUERF’s strength lies in bringing together three pillars of members: central banks and supervisors, financial industry representatives and academics. Members are drawn from all over Europe and beyond. SUERF is soundly governed by its Council of Management, which comprises high-ranking representatives drawn from SUERF’s three pillars of members.

SUERF’s objectives are:

To promote contacts between practitioners (whether in the public or private sector) and academics, and to act as a forum for the discussion of monetary and financial issues;
To organise international events and meetings, focussing on topics central to members’ interests and, as appropriate, jointly with other like-minded bodies;
To sponsor and publish policy-oriented, practitioner-friendly, original research in these areas by both academics and practitioners.

2019 Speakers

Mario Draghi
President of the European Central Bank

Michala Marcussen
Vice President, Suerf

François Villeroy de Galhau
Governor, Banque de France

Christine Lagarde
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Martin Wolf
Financial Times

Laurence Boone
Chief economist, Organisation of Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)

Agustin Carstens
General Manager, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Richard Clarida
Vice-President, Federal Reserve Board

Pascal Lamy,
Former President, World Trade Organisation

Jean Lemierre
Chairman, BNP Paribas

Sharon Donnery
Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland

David T. Llewellyn
Professor, Loughborough University, former President of SUERF

Minouche Shafik
Director, London School of Economics

Cecilia Skingsley
Deputy Governor, Riksbank

Jean-Claude Trichet
Former President, European Central Bank

Hélène Rey
Professor, London Business School

Sylvie Goulard
Deputy Governor, Banque de France

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Chairman, Société Générale

Benoît Coeuré
Member of the Board, European Central Bank

Gita Gopinath
Chief Economist, IMF; Professor, Harvard University

Lucrezia Reichlin
Professor, London School of Economics

Jean Tirole
Professor, Toulouse School of Economics