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Legitimacy, Accountability and Inclusiveness: Are The Bretton Woods Institutions “Democratic”?

Professor Susanna Cafaro has taught European Union Law and International Law in the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) since 2001.

Key Takeaways from 2022 and Bold Predictions for 2023

BWC member and former CFIUS member Harry Broadman commented in Foreign Investment Watch on what the key developments in CFIUS policy during 2022 were and what might be a significant CFIUS policy action in 2023.

Keith B. Carter

BWC would like to welcome new member Keith B. Carter. Keith advises companies and governments on strategic use of data, fintech policy, talent development, and data-driven communications.

His passion is teaching design thinking, data-driven decision-making, robotic process automation, algorithmic trading, and, especially, actionable intelligence, which he characterizes as the right information, in the right person's hands, at the right time to improve outcomes.

Joining the NYU School of Professional Studies

BWC member Greg Johnson will be joining the NYU School of Professional Studies as an adjunct professor, where he'll lecture on the nexus of technology, innovation, and legacy business. Greg was on the drafting team for BWC's Digital Finance Project Team's most recent brief.

It’s Time to Rethink the Conventional Macroeconomic Policy Framework

Paul James Sheard is an Australian-American economist. He is Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

It’s tempting for the Fed to move slowly. That would be a grave error.

Lawrence H. Summers, a professor at and past president of Harvard University, was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and an economic adviser to President Barack Obama from 2009 through 2010.

Italy’s Slow-Motion Euro Train Wreck

Nouriel Roubini, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, was Senior Economist for International Affairs in the White House's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, the US Federal Reserve, and the World Bank.

Italy’s G20 Priorities

Alessandro Rivera, director general of Italy’s treasury and this year’s chair of the G20 finance deputies, joins Mark Sobel, OMFIF US chairman, for this OMFIF podcast.

It's time for an African Woman to Head the International Finance Corporation

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an arm of the World Bank Group and is the largest development finance institution devoted to private-sector development in the world.

Is the next financial crisis already brewing?

As we mark the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis, there have been plenty of postmortems examining its causes, its consequences and whether the necessary lessons have been learnt.