Forum to Host Discussion on Financial Re-regulation in Wake of Economic Downturn

Contact: Doug Gavel
Phone: (617) 495-1115
Date: November 14, 2008

Cambridge, MA – Tackling the market challenges ahead will be the focus of discussion Nov. 19th at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. “Financial Re-Regulation: The Economics and the Politics” will begin at 6 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge.

Panelists will include:

  • Jack Blum, Counsel, Baker & Hostetler, LLP
  • Robert Dugger, Managing Director, Tudor Investments Corporation
  • Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University
  • Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2001)
  • Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank (1997-2000) Richard Parker, moderator, lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics & Public Policy

“The debate over the re-regulation of financial markets and its consequences has already begun. Trillions of dollars and thirty years of financial market deregulation are at stake; so too is the current and future stability of the world's economies,” Parker commented. “The Forum discussion will concern the politics and economics, and the winners and losers that will shape a new regulatory regime.”

Journalists interested in covering the Forum should contact the Kennedy School Communications Office at (617) 495-1115 to reserve space on the press riser.

A live Vivex video/audio feed of this Forum is available.

This event will be web-streamed live: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/John-F.-Kennedy-Jr.-Forum

To view this and other events after their conclusion, visit the Forum archive: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Multimedia-Center/By-Program/JFK-Jr.-Forum

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