LSE public lecture
Date: Thursday 30 October 2008
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Howard Davies
Chair: Professor Willem Buiter
Howard Davies is working on a book about the future of central banking to be published in 2009 by Princeton University Press. He will assess the ways in which central banks around the world have responded to the credit crisis and what that implies for their role in financial sector regulation in the future.
Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prior to this, from 1997-2003 he was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the single regulator for the UK financial sector, which was created under his leadership from nine separate regulatory agencies. From 1995-1997 he was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
Podcast, Slides and Speech Notes
A podcast of this event is available to download from the LSE public lectures and events podcasts channel.
A copy of Howard Davies' PowerPoint is now available online. Download: Central Banking and the Credit Crunch (pdf)
A copy of Howard Davies' speech notes are now available online. Download: Central Banking and the Credit Crunch (pdf)
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