Rethinking FinanceAlternative voices for a new financial architecture

It brings together experts, researchers, practitioners and civil society to discuss how to reshape finance so that it contributes to a just and sustainable economy. To stimulate a genuine debate, it has not only plenary sessions but also breakout sessions to facilitate small group discussions.

Recovery towards what? Finance, justice, sustainability
6 November 2009
Congress Centre, Central London
www.brettonwoodsproject.org/confnov6

It brings together experts, researchers, practitioners and civil society to discuss how to reshape finance so that it contributes to a just and sustainable economy. To stimulate a genuine debate, it has not only plenary sessions but also breakout sessions to facilitate small group discussions.

Keynote speakers:
YV Reddy, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development at the UN-Department for Economic and Social Affairs

Other Speakers include:
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of Europaen Socialists and former Prime Minister of Denmark
Robert Wade, Professor at the Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
Brendan Barber, General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress
Alison Evans, Director of the Overseas Development Institute
Barbara Ridpath, Chief Executive of the International Centre for Financial Regulation
Gao Haihong, Director Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
James Vaccaro, Managing Director of Investment Banking (UK) at Triodos Bank
Costas Lapavitsas, Professor in the Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies

An up-to-date agenda can be found at www.brettonwoodsproject.org/agendaconfnov6

When and where?
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November 6, 9:00 – 19:30
Congress Centre, London (near Tottenham Court Road)

The conference is open to everybody interested in hearing about and discussing how to make finance work. However, space is limited. Please register online to attend the conference at http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/registerconfnov6.