Global Financial Crisis: What Lessons Should Be Learned?
Thursday 29 January 2009, 12.30 – 14.00
Governments and central banks had to save the global financial system from certain collapse. Until recently, free markets were seen as a condition for growth and development. Today, the discussion is about defining the most efficient regulation of the global financial system. Large bonuses for top managers and board members, valued at several million dollars, create outrage and indignation.- What consequences can be drawn from the financial crisis?
- Do we need additional regulation?
- How can an optimal and effective global framework be established?
- What are suitable bonuses? Who should determine them?
Martine Brunschwig Graf, National Councillor, Switzerland
Ivan Pictet, Senior Managing Partner, Bank Pictet & Cie, Genf
Jean-Pierre Roth, Chairman of the Governing Board,
Swiss National Bank, Switzerland
Rudolf Strahm, Former National Councillor and former
Price Regulator, Switzerland
Peter Ulrich, Professor, Institute for Business Ethics,
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
Moderation:
Urs Leuthard, Swiss Television