Thursday, January 27, 2011

What is the New Economic Reality? - Davos 2011

Davos Annual Meeting 2011 - What Is the New Economic Reality?

http://www.weforum.org 26.01.2011
The notion of a "new normal" is premature given the fragility of the global economy, but the elements of a new economic reality appear to now be in place.

In partnership with the World Economic Forum, Time magazine hosts this debate focusing on the elements of the new economic reality.

• Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro, India
• Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics and International Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Crises
• Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP, United Kingdom
• James S. Turley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ernst & Young, USA
• Min Zhu, Special Adviser, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Regional Agenda Council on China

Moderated by
• Michael J. Elliott, Editor, Time International, and Deputy Managing Editor, Time Magazine, USA

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Nouriel Roubini, (born March 29, 1958, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish-born American economist and educator who was best known for predicting the 2007–08 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis.

Born to Iranian Jewish parents, Roubini moved with his family to Iran and Israel before they settled in Italy in 1962. After a year at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied economics at Bocconi University in Milan (B.A., 1982) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1988), where he specialized in macroeconomics and international economics. He joined the economics faculty at Yale University in 1988 and taught there until 1995, when he moved to New York University. He also served as a visiting scholar to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), held single-year terms on the White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998–99) and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1999–2000), and cofounded (2004) the consulting firm Roubini Global Economics. Roubini spent much of his early career studying countries that experienced extreme economic failures, such as Mexico (in 1994), Thailand and other countries associated with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Russia (1998), and Argentina (2000). He determined that each shared one common element: a massive current account deficit.(www.britannica.com)

Nouriel Roubini is the Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, his own global macroeconomic consultancy firm. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.