Thu 23 / 07 / 15
Growing your business in a Global Economy
Speaker, Brighton Summit, Friday 16 October
Professor Kristin Forbes will talk about where in the world are the best growth opportunities? Over the past decade, the majority of global growth has been driven by emerging markets—such as China, India, Russia and Brazil. This has fundamentally changed the structure of the global economy. But growth in many of these former engines of global growth has recently faltered, while the outlook for many developed nations has improved. In what parts of the world are the most promising growth opportunities in the future?
Kristin is the newest member of the nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee responsible for setting interest rates in the UK. Kristin joined the Committee in July 2014. She has since made several high profile speeches covering topics such as the exchange rate, low inflation and the risks from low interest rates.
Prior to joining the Committee Kristin served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Treasury Department from 2001-2002, as a Member of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers from 2003-2005 (the youngest ever person to be appointed to this position) and a Member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisers for Massachusetts from 2009-2014.
Alongside her work as a policy-maker, Professor Forbes is an expert in capital flows, contagion, and financial crises. Forbes was named a "Young Global Leader" as part of the World Economic Forum at Davos and one of the "top global thinkers under 45" by the International Monetary Fund. She is a research associate at the NBER and a member of the Bellagio Group and Council on Foreign Relations. She was previously on the academic advisory board of the Congressional Budget Office, Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Center for Global Development.
Alongside her position on the MPC, Kristin is also currently the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This continues Professor Forbes tradition of serving in senior policy positions while maintaining her academic affiliation with MIT.
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