Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010
Time: 6.30-7.45pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Y Venugopal Reddy, Lord Adair Turner
Chair: Professor Lord Nicholas Stern

Update, Monday 12 April: Lord Adair Turner will be speaking at this event

India and the Global Financial Crisis offers a collection of essays based on the speeches delivered by Y. V. Reddy during his tenure as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2003 and September 2008. This was a period of rapid growth for the Indian economy as well as extraordinary challenges for the conduct of monetary policy. This volume describes India's financial situation in light of the perspectives and policies of the Reserve Bank of India, as well as its response to the financial crisis in 2007.

Y. V. Reddy served as governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Prior to being the governor, he was executive director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of Hyderabad and Honorary Fellow at the LSE.

Lord Adair Turner is chairman of the Financial Services Authority and chairman of the Climate Change Committee and the Overseas Development Institute. He is also a visiting professor at LSE.

Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, director of the India Observatory, and chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE.

Please note that Mervyn King and Nalin Surie are no longer able to participate as speakers in this event.

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