Session II: Global Economic Policy After the Coronavirus

Council on Foreign Relations

The 2020 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics discusses the implications of the coronavirus pandemic on global economic policy.

Speakers

Keyu Jin
Associate Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Vincent Reinhart
Chief Economist and Macro Strategist, Mellon; Former Director, Division of Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve; CFR Member

Beatrice Weder di Mauro
President, Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor, International Economics, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Research Professor and Distinguished Fellow, INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute

Presider

Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; @scmallaby

This symposium is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and is made possible through the generous support of Council Board member Stephen C. Freidheim.

For further information, please see the CFR article “The Global Economy: Heading Toward a Dark Winter?” by Brad W. Setser, the Foreign Affairs article “The Pandemic Depression” by Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart, and the Economist article “The World After COVID-19” by Mark Carney.