Speakers:
Patrick Pintus is Professor at Aix Marseille University and an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, on leave at the Monetary Policy Division of the Banque de France. He is a graduate of the École normale supérieure (ENS) de Cachan and holds a PhD from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His academic research has mainly focused on the macroeconomic consequences of imperfections in capital and credit markets, and on the relationship between international financial globalisation and growth. His more recent work has looked at the effectiveness of monetary policy and at the empirical link between public infrastructure and income inequalities.
Sanjay Peters teaches in the Executive Master Program in Public Administration at SIPA, Columbia University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge UK. His main area of specialisation, and hence publications in academic journals and books are on emerging markets. His current research focuses on inequality, sovereign wealth funds and long-term investments in infrastructure. Sanjay Peters has worked as an economic advisor to the foreign office of the UK Government, consultant to the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program. He also served as Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and also as the Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at IESE Business School, in Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction by José Antonio Ocampo, Professor and Director of Economic and Political Development Concentration, Columbia SIPA
This event is sponsored by EPD Concentration and Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.