What has the financial crisis taught Europe?
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Date
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Monday, 22 November 2010
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Venue
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New Theatre, East Building, LSE
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Speaker
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Mr Simeon Djankov
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Bulgaria
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Chair
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Dr James Ker-Lindsay
Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of SEE, LSE
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On 22 November 2010, LSEE hosted a lecture by Dr Simeon Djankov, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Bulgaria, entitled “What has the financial crisis taught Europe?” Dr Djankov discussed how the global financial crisis has uncovered several weaknesses in Europe’s regulatory system and the belated measures taken by the European Commission to fix these weaknesses with fresh regulation. Dr Djankov offered an analysis of the most current developments as well as a perspective on how the financial sector in Europe will look in the coming years.
Simeon Djankov is a Bulgarian economist, who currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Bulgaria. Prior to his cabinet appointment, Minister Djankov was the chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank.
In his fourteen years at the World Bank, he worked on regional trade agreements in North Africa, enterprise restructuring and privatization in transition economies, corporate governance in East Asia, and regulatory reforms around the world.
He is also known as the creator of the Doing Business series, the top-selling publication of the World Bank Group, he was a principal author of the World Development Report 2002 and has published over 70 articles in academic journals. Dr Djankov holds a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. ˜