Managing financial crisis: Public and private sector challenges
When: 2012-02-22 13:00 to 16:30
Where: Sverigesalen, Försvarshögskolan, Drottning Kristinas Väg 37, Stockholm
Over three years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the deep destabilization of the global economy, the world remains wracked by financial crisis. A situation that ostensibly started in the American subprime mortgage market has morphed into a sovereign debt crisis that, amongst other dire implications, calls into question the very foundations of the European Union.
How are these events connected, how can they be managed by government and private actors, and what are the deeper economic, political and social implications of protracted crisis?
On 22 February 2012, CRISMART at the Swedish National Defence College and the Center for Banking and Finance (CEFIN) at KTH will host a seminar on the financial and debt crisis.
Preliminary program (PDF, 244 kB)
The seminar brings together high-level government officials, private sector practitioners and academic experts to provide a variety of perspectives and propose potential ways forward in managing the crisis and its impacts. Speakers and panelists include Stefan Ingves, head of Sweden's central bank, Angelo Persiani, Italy's Ambassador to Sweden; Cecilia Hermansson, chief economist of Swedbank; Erik Belfrage, SEB and Investor AB; and Dr. Tom Kärrlander, economic historian at CEFIN/KTH.
The moderator is Prof. Stellan Lundström, dean of the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment/ Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad.
The seminar is free of charge and open to the public. It follows upon themes and problems discussed in a similar seminar arranged by CRISMART and CEFIN in the end of 2008, The Roots and Responses to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
