The symposium is the first in a series. More details regarding the event, including schedule, program and additional speakers, are to be announced. The symposium will be open to the media and live-streamed for the public.
Featured presenters include:
- Anat R. Admati, the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
- Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund
Admati has written extensively on information dissemination in financial markets, trading mechanisms, portfolio management, financial contracting, and corporate governance and banking. Since 2010, she has been active in the debate over financial regulation, particularly capital regulation, and has written research and policy papers and commentary on the subject. She is a co-author of The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It.
Johnson was named a Main Street Hero by the Independent Community Bankers of America for “his articulate and outspoken support for public policies to end too-big-to-fail” in 2013 and has co-authored a book with James Kwak titled 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (2010).
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