Making Sense of Today’s Global Financial System
Event Description
Join WorldDenver and the Denver Association of Business Economists for a compelling conversation with Dr. Ilene Grabel, distinguished Professor of International Finance at the University of Denver, and Nick Sly, Ph.D., Denver Branch Executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, as they explore challenges shaping the current global financial system. Dr. Grabel will address timely questions including the future of the U.S. dollar, the role of the Federal Reserve, rising financial instability, the influence of cryptocurrencies, potential debt crises in emerging markets, and whether we are entering a “post-American” era in global finance. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain expert insight into today’s fast-evolving economic landscape.
Thank you to our co-host:
Tickets:
Annual Supporters: $25
General Admission: $35
Young Professional Members: $15
Event Agenda:
5:45 p.m. | Doors open
6:00 p.m. | Registration, networking & refreshments
6:30 p.m. | Speaker program followed by audience Q&A
8:00 p.m. | Event Concludes
About our Speakers:
Ilene Grabel, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor and co-director of the MA program in Global Economic Affairs at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.
Grabel’s research focuses on global financial governance (including feminist approaches to financial governance); transregional, multilateral, and regional financial institutions; the political economy of domestic and international financial policies; developmental finance and the financial systems of countries in the Global South; financial and debt crises; capital controls, exchange rates, and central banking; and “post-American” transformations in the global financial order.
Her research has been published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Feminist Economics, Review of International Political Economy, Economía Informa, Ola Financiera, International Review of Applied Economics, International Affairs, International Journal of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, Eastern Economics Journal, Journal of Economic Issues, Forum for Social Economics, Current History, International Theory, and Development and Change. Grabel served as a co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy from 2013-2017.
Grabel’s book, When Things Don’t Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence (MIT Press, 2017), won the 2019 European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Robinson Prize, the 2019 International Studies Association International Political Economy Best Book Award, and the 2018 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Book Prize. Her previous book (with Ha-Joon Chang), Reclaiming Development (Bloomsbury Publishing, [2004] 2014), has been translated widely.
Grabel has conducted commissioned research for the Division of Globalization and Development Strategies of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UN Group of 24, Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), International Poverty Centre for Inclusive Growth of UNDP, United Nations Women, International Labour Organization, UN University/World Institute for Development Economics Research, and the NGOs Action Aid, Third World Network, and New Rules for Global Finance.
Nicholas Sly, Ph.D., is Vice President and Denver Branch Executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. In this role, he serves as the Bank’s regional economist and its representative in the states of Colorado, Wyoming and in northern New Mexico. Mr. Sly works closely with the Branch’s board of directors and is responsible for briefing the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City on economic conditions in the Denver branch’s region.
University. Mr. Sly is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Note: As a nonpartisan convener of global affairs programming, WorldDenver provides an unbiased forum for experts, world leaders, diplomats, and representatives from the public and private sectors to share their expertise and views on a broad spectrum of issues that matter to the world. We aim for our events to inspire curiosity and further reading, discussion, and civic engagement among our members and the Denver community on the global issues that we present.
Join WorldDenver and the Denver Association of Business Economists for a compelling conversation with Dr. Ilene Grabel, distinguished Professor of International Finance at the University of Denver, and Nick Sly, Ph.D., Denver Branch Executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, as they explore challenges shaping the current global financial system. Dr. Grabel will address timely questions including the future of the U.S. dollar, the role of the Federal Reserve, rising financial instability, the influence of cryptocurrencies, potential debt crises in emerging markets, and whether we are entering a “post-American” era in global finance. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain expert insight into today’s fast-evolving economic landscape.
Thank you to our co-host:
Tickets:
Annual Supporters: $25
General Admission: $35
Young Professional Members: $15
Event Agenda:
5:45 p.m. | Doors open
6:00 p.m. | Registration, networking & refreshments
6:30 p.m. | Speaker program followed by audience Q&A
8:00 p.m. | Event Concludes
About our Speakers:
Ilene Grabel, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor and co-director of the MA program in Global Economic Affairs at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.
Grabel’s research focuses on global financial governance (including feminist approaches to financial governance); transregional, multilateral, and regional financial institutions; the political economy of domestic and international financial policies; developmental finance and the financial systems of countries in the Global South; financial and debt crises; capital controls, exchange rates, and central banking; and “post-American” transformations in the global financial order.
Her research has been published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Feminist Economics, Review of International Political Economy, Economía Informa, Ola Financiera, International Review of Applied Economics, International Affairs, International Journal of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, Eastern Economics Journal, Journal of Economic Issues, Forum for Social Economics, Current History, International Theory, and Development and Change. Grabel served as a co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy from 2013-2017.
Grabel’s book, When Things Don’t Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence (MIT Press, 2017), won the 2019 European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Robinson Prize, the 2019 International Studies Association International Political Economy Best Book Award, and the 2018 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Book Prize. Her previous book (with Ha-Joon Chang), Reclaiming Development (Bloomsbury Publishing, [2004] 2014), has been translated widely.
Grabel has conducted commissioned research for the Division of Globalization and Development Strategies of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UN Group of 24, Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), International Poverty Centre for Inclusive Growth of UNDP, United Nations Women, International Labour Organization, UN University/World Institute for Development Economics Research, and the NGOs Action Aid, Third World Network, and New Rules for Global Finance.
Nicholas Sly, Ph.D., is Vice President and Denver Branch Executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. In this role, he serves as the Bank’s regional economist and its representative in the states of Colorado, Wyoming and in northern New Mexico. Mr. Sly works closely with the Branch’s board of directors and is responsible for briefing the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City on economic conditions in the Denver branch’s region.
University. Mr. Sly is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Note: As a nonpartisan convener of global affairs programming, WorldDenver provides an unbiased forum for experts, world leaders, diplomats, and representatives from the public and private sectors to share their expertise and views on a broad spectrum of issues that matter to the world. We aim for our events to inspire curiosity and further reading, discussion, and civic engagement among our members and the Denver community on the global issues that we present.