OECD High-level Parliamentary Seminar on Recent Financial Market Trends and Issues - programme

OECD HIGH-LEVEL PARLIAMENTARY SEMINAR

Recent Financial Market Trends and Issues

21 February 2008 - Room CC1

Programme

Chair:  Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

9.30

Welcome coffee

10.00

Overview of recent financial developments  (presentation)  - Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Deputy Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs Directorate

10.20

Discussion

 

11.00

Subprime crisis - Adrian Blundell-Wignall

11.20

Discussion

 

12.00

Financial Education (presentation) - Bruno Levesque, Principal Administrator, Financial and Enterprise Affairs Directorate

12.30

Discussion

 

12.45

Lunch

 

14.15

Sovereign wealth funds - Kathryn Gordon, Senior Economist, Financial and Enterprise Affairs Directorate

14.30

Discussion

 

15.30

Private equity boom: causes and policy issues (presentation)- Grant Kirkpatrick, Senior Economist, Financial and Enterprise Affairs Directorate

15.45

Discussion

 

16.30

Concluding comments

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