Building a New Monetary Order 2018 | Bank of Greece | 2 November 2018 | Hotel Grande Bretagne, 1, Syntagma Square, Vasileos Georgiou A str, Athina 105 64, Greece

The conference is titled The birth of inter-war central banks: building a new monetary order and shall focus on central banking in the inter-war years, particularly the string of new banks that were established in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of those institutions were born in an attempt to restore international monetary order and promote central-bank cooperation in the aftermath of World War I. The Great Depression soon challenged the viability of this order and forced many of the new-born institutions to re-evaluate their policy priorities and their relationship to the state and with each other.

The conference shall bring together fifteen prominent scholars from eleven different countries, working on the history of money and banking, to present papers on different aspects of inter-war central banking, as well as specific national experiences. Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley will deliver the keynote lecture, uniting some of the conference themes. To underline the connection with the present and future of central banking, the conference also includes a panel discussion, led by the Governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras and joined by several other Eurozone central bank Governors, who will discuss different aspects of “Central bank policy and cooperation after the last financial and sovereign debt crisis”. The discussion, which will be open to conference participants and members of the press, offers an opportunity to take a more long-term view of current policy challenges and the prospects of central bank cooperation within the Eurozone.

2018 Speakers:

Yannis Stournaras
Former Finance Minister of Greece

Barry Eichengreen
Economist

Patricia Clavin
British historian

Oliver Freitag
Leiter IT / CIO bei eismann Tiefkühlheimservice GmbH

Piet Clement
Head of Information & Collaboration, General Secretariat, Information Management Services

Johann Kernbauer Ph.D.
Chief Investment Officer, Pioneer Investments Austria GmbH

György Péteri
Payroll Associate, UNHCR

Cecylia Leszczyńska
Department of Economic History

Jakub Kunert
Engineer passionate with software

Kostas Kostis
Greek Author

Roumen Avramov
Bulgarian economist

Șevket Pamuk
Turkish professor

John Singleton

Gopalan Balachandran

2018 Sponsors:

• Bank of Greece EuroSystem
• CENTRE FOR CULTURE