Program

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Last Updated: March 27, 2023

Tuesday, March 28

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM  Welcome Reception | South American
Capital Hilton 

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM  Small Group Dinners (registration required; more details in registration confirmation email)
Area Restaurants

Wednesday, March 29   

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast | Capital Terrace

8:00 AM - 8:40 AM A View from the World Trade Organization | Presidential Ballroom

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization
Moderator: Constance Hunter, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Strategy and ESG, AIG

8:45 AM - 9:35 AM Fiscal Policy Perspectives | Presidential Ballroom

Doug Elmendorf, Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Moderator: Jeff Holland, Vice President, Research, The Peter G. Peterson Foundation

9:40 AM - 10:30 AM Housing Supply and Policy Options | Presidential Ballroom

Edward Pinto, Director-Center on Housing Risk, American Enterprise Institute Laurie Goodman, Institute Fellow, The Urban Institute Moderator: Selma Hepp, Chief Economist and Executive, Research and Insights, CoreLogic

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Networking Break | Capital Terrace

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions I

IA. Discrimination in Housing: Past, Present, and Future | South American Jonathan Rose, Historian, Federal Reserve System Vanessa Perry, Professor of Marketing, Strategic Management and Public Policy, George Washington University School of Business Moderator: Jessica Dill, Director and District Transition Coordinator for FRFS Transition, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

IB. Immigration Policy Options | Federal
Fred Treyz, Chief Economist and CEO, REMI Pia Orrenius, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Anna Maria Mayda, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University Moderator: Daniel Bachman, Senior Research Leader, Economic Forecasting, Deloitte Services, LP

IC. Geopolitical Tensions in Europe and the Outlook for the Energy Market | Congressional
Elina Ribakova, Visiting Fellow, Bruegel David Claydon, Partner and Founder, Kaya Partners Yael Selfin, Chief Economist, KPMG in the UK Moderator: Ilan Kolet, Institutional Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Investments

12:00 PM - 1:25 PM Luncheon Address: U.S. Macroeconomic & Fiscal Outlook | Presidential Ballroom

Phillip Swagel, Director, Congressional Budget Office Moderator: Diane Lim, Blogger and Writer, EconomistMom.com; Advisory Board Member, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions II

IIA. The Future of Family-Friendly Policies | South American
  Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Melissa Boteach, Vice President, Income Security and Child Care/Early Learning, National Women's Law Center   Chelsea Follett, Policy Analyst and Managing Editor of HumanProgress.org, Cato Institute   Sharita Gruberg, Vice President for Economic Justice, National Partnership for Women and Families    Moderator: Melissa Kearney, Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics, University of Maryland

IIB. Reliability and Affordability Throughout the Energy Transition | Federal
  Jeff Plewes, Principal, Charles River Associates   Kevin Book, Co-Founder and Head of Research, ClearView Energy Partners, LLC   Charles Rossmann, Economist, Southern Company   Moderator: Martha Moore, Chief Economist and Managing Director, Economics and Statistics, American Chemistry Council

IIC. Soft, Hard, or No Landing? Outlook for the U.S. Economy and Policy Implications | Congressional
  Michael Brown, Principal U.S. Economist, Visa
  Dulguun Batbold, Global Economist, Visa   Kathy Bostjancic, Chief Economist, Nationwide   Ryan Sweet, Chief U.S. Economist, Oxford Economics    Moderator: Diane Swonk, CBE, Chief Economist and Managing Director, KPMG LLP

2:30 PM - 2:55 PM Networking Break | Capital Terrace

2:55 PM - 3:45 PM Inflation and Monetary Policy | Presidential Ballroom

Richard Clarida, Former Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Catherine Mann, External Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England Moderator: Seth Carpenter, Global Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley

3:50 PM - 4:40 PM Regulating Digital Assets and Payment Stablecoins | Presidential Ballroom

  Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund  
Gordon Liao, Chief Economist, Circle
Nellie Liang, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Moderator: Sanjay Patnaik, Director, Center on Regulation and Markets, The Brookings Institution

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM Inflation in the Euro Area and the U.S. - Causes, Persistence, Outlook | Presidential Ballroom

Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank Moderator: Dana Peterson, Chief Economist, The Conference Board

6:00-7:30 PM Reception at the French Ambassador's Residence

2221 Kalorama Road, Northwest

8:00 PM GetConnected Happy Hour at the Ellipse Rooftop Bar at the Hyatt Place | Open to All Attendees

  1522 K Street, Northwest

Thursday, March 30

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast | Capital Terrace

8:00 AM - 8:40 AM Financial Stability | Presidential Ballroom

Sheila Bair, Former Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Moderator: Julia Coronado, NABE President; President and Founder, MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC

8:45 AM - 9:35 AM The Labor Market is Not Just Human | Presidential Ballroom

William Spriggs, Chief Economist, AFL-CIO
Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP Diane Swonk, CBE, Chief Economist and Managing Director, KPMG LLP Moderator: Lydia Boussour, Senior Economist, EY-Parthenon

9:40 AM - 10:30 AM Assessing and Adapting to a New Trade Landscape | Presidential Ballroom

Elaine Buckberg, Chief Economist, General Motors
Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University
Moderator: Mekala Krishnan, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Networking Break | Capital Terrace

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions

IIIA. Antitrust: A Necessary Good or Stifling of Growth and Innovation? | South American Fiona Scott Morton, Professor of Economics, Yale SOM Jeffrey Prisbrey, Vice President, Charles River Associates Aurelien Portuese, Director of The Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Moderator: Benjamin Leyden, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Economics, Cornell University

IIIB. Climate Change and Insurance: The Essential Silent Partner | Federal Thomas Holzheu, Chief Economist Americas, Deputy Head of Group Economic Research and Strategy, Swiss Re Institute Roger Kranenburg, Vice President, Energy Strategy and Policy, Eversource Energy Moderator: Nekabari Goka, Principal, Policy Analysis & Development, Exelon

IIIC. Wage Compression: Good for Workers, Bad for Inflation? | Congressional
Nick Bunker, Director, North American Economic Research, Indeed Annie McGrew, Economics PhD Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst Moderator: Jeanna Smialek, Federal Reserve and Economics Reporter, The New York Times

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Luncheon: Outlook and Monetary Policy | Presidential Ballroom

Susan Collins, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Moderator: Elaine Buckberg, Chief Economist, General Motors

1:35 PM - 2:35 PM Concurrent Sessions IV

IVA. Small Business Finance in the Pandemic and Aftermath | South American
Chi Mac, Business Research Lead, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Joseph W. Major, Chairman of the Board and CEO, The Victory Bank and Victory Bancorp, Inc. Moderator: Curtis Dubay, Chief Economist, Economic Policy Division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

IVB. Regional Inequality and Place-Based Policy | Federal
Jed Kolko, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce Peter Ganong, Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago Moderator: Emily Badger, Domestic Correspondent, The New York Times

IVC. Transportation Infrastructure as a Key to Global Competitiveness | Congressional
Richard Ezike, Program Communication Specialist, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Philippe Villard, Vice President, Economic Policy Airports Council International-NA Luisa Fernandez-Willey, Assistant Vice President, Policy & Economics, Association of American Railroads Moderator: Matthew Muenster, Chief Economist, Breakthrough

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM Networking Break | Capital Terrace

2:50 PM - 3:40 PM Does the U.S. Need an Industrial Policy to Compete in the New Landscape? | Presidential Ballroom

  Kristen Silverberg, President and COO, Business Roundtable; Former U.S. Ambassador to the EU
Mary Lovely, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Thomas Duesterberg, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Moderator: Juhi Dhawan, Senior Managing Director, Global Macroanalyst, Wellington Management

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM Presentation of the Paul A. Volcker Award | Presidential Ballroom

Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury
Moderator: Julia Coronado, NABE President; President and Founder, MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC