Annual Forum
The Center for Global Business’ Annual Forum is an event occurring every spring that brings together distinguished voices from the academic, policy, diplomatic, and business communities to speak on a different theme each year.
Annual Forum featuring Markus Brunnermeier
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
5 to 6 p.m.
The Center for Global Business invites you to the 4th Annual Forum with the author of “The Resilient Society,” Markus Brunnermeier. Come to this springtime event to hear from Brunnermeier about how to build resilience and invest in mechanisms to bounce back and protect our social and economic institutions from climate change, cyberattacks, and other shocks to come. The discussion will be led by Academic Director Kislaya Prasad.
Please note the first 100 participants to register and attend in person will receive a copy of “The Resilient Society.”
Participants will have the option to attend this event in person or virtually. Please respond to the registration question to choose your preference. Participants who opt for the in-person option will attend in Van Munching Hall, Room 2333. Virtual participants will log in using the Zoom information they receive upon registration.
Speaker Bio
Markus Brunnermeier
Edwards S. Sanford Professor, Princeton University
Director, Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University
Markus K. Brunnermeier is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor in the economics department at Princeton University and director of Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance. His research focuses on international financial markets and the macroeconomy with special emphasis on bubbles, liquidity, financial and monetary price stability, and digital money. In 2020, at the outbreak of Covid, he established a webinar series.;
Brunnermeier is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, CESifo, the Luohan Academy, ABFER, and a member of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy. He is a Sloan Research Fellow, fellow of the Econometric Society, Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the Bernácer Prize granted for outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. He is a member of several advisory groups, including to the US Congressional Budget Office, the Bank for International Settlements, and the Bundesbank as well as previously to the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve of New York, the European Systemic Risk Board. Brunnermeier was awarded his PhD by the London School of Economics (LSE).
He has been awarded several best paper prizes and served on the editorial boards of a number of leading economics and finance journals. He has worked to establish the concepts of: liquidity spirals, CoVaR as a measure of systemic risk, the Volatility Paradox, Paradox of Prudence, European Safe Bonds (ESBies), financial dominance, the redistributive monetary policy, the Reversal Rate, and Digital Currency Areas. His recent book “The Resilient Society” won the Prize for the 2021 best business book in German and was listed among best economics books by the Financial Times.