SPEAKER:

MARTIN HELLWIG

Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Martin has published extensively in many areas of economics and finance. His 1990s publications on systemic risk and financial regulation were the first to expose some of the mechanisms that would be detrimental in the crisis of 2007–2009. His book The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It, co-authored with Anat Admati from Stanford, was published by Princeton University Press in 2013. He is a former President of the European Economic Association and the German Economic Association. He has also been active in policy work, including positions as president of the German Monopolkommission and as the first Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, in charge of macro-prudential surveillance in the European Union.