Robert A. Mundell Global Risk Memorial Key Lecture: Technology, Fragmentation and the New Uncertainty - Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank
hosted by Professor
Renaud Dehousse
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
Alessandro Merli
Discussant - Associate Fellow, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe
BY INVITATION ONLY
Robert A. Mundell (1932-2021) was a member of the Johns Hopkins SAIS international economics faculty and taught at SAIS Europe for four years, during the period 1959-2001. Much of his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas, which resulted in his Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1999, was conducted during his time in Bologna.
The Lecture is part of the broader Johns Hopkins SAIS Global Risk Conference which has been made possible with the generous support of Mr. James K. Anderson, SAIS Europe Alumnus and Advisory Council member, and Johns Hopkins University Trustee.
CHRISTINE LAGARDE
Christine Lagarde is a French politician and lawyer who has been the President of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2011 to 2019. Lagarde had also served in the Government of France, most prominently as Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry from 2007 until 2011. She is the first woman to hold each of those posts.
