As four decades of rapid globalization are giving way to a more fragmented world, many of our challenges remain global. How can governments and business ensure that resilience and sustainable, inclusive growth go hand-in-hand in this rapidly changing landscape?
This year’s conference explored the best paths forward to ensure people and the planet can prosper as we navigate these new currents.
Ana Botín and Johannes Hahn
Moderator: James Harding
Speakers: Ana Botín, Roberto Campos Neto, Oby Ezekwesili and Johannes Hahn
Moderator: James Harding
Speakers: Izabella Kaminska, Eswar S. Prasad and John Whelan
Speaker: Nadia Calviño, First Vice-President and Minister for the Economy and Digital Transformation, Spain
Moderator: Lord Hill
Speakers: Greg Baer, Andreas Dombret and Sylvie Goulard
Moderator: Sonja Gibbs
Speakers: Sarah Breeden, Walter Schalka and José Linares
Lawrence H. Summers and James Harding
Moderator Alejandra Kindelán
Speakers: Pablo Hernández de Cos and José Antonio Álvarez
James Harding
• Latin America’s choices: Trade, politics and prosperity with José Juan Ruíz (Moderator), Moisés Naím, Michael Reid and Esther Solano (Speakers)
• The Atlantic Alliance in a fragmenting world with Cristina Manzano (Moderator), Carlota García Encina, Anthony Gardner and Radoslaw Sikorski (Speakers)
• Deep-Dive: Audience Q&A with Bárbara Navarro and Eswar Prasad
Ana Botín
Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander
Andreas Dombret
Former Board Member of Deutsche Bundesbank & former ECB Supervisory Board Member
Anthony Gardner
Managing Partner and co-head of Europe at Brookfield’s Private Equity group
Bárbara Navarro
Head of Research, Public Policy, and Institutional Relations at Banco Santander
Carlota García Encina
Senior Analyst for the US and the Transatlantic Relations at the Elcano Royal Institute
Esther Solano
Professor of International Relations, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Eswar S. Prasad
Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy Cornell University
Greg Baer
President and Chief Executive Officer, Bank Policy Institute
Izabella Kaminska
Founder and editor of The Blind Spot
Johannes Hahn
Commissioner for Budget and Administration, European Commission
John Whelan
Managing Director of Crypto & Digital Assets at Banco Santander's Corporate and Investment Bank
José Antonio Álvarez
Chief Executive Officer, Banco Santander
José M. Linares
Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, Banco Santander
Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Michael Reid
Correspondent for The Economist and author of the Bello column in that magazine
Moisés Naím
Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Nadia Calviño
First Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for the Economy and Digital Transformation
Obiageli “Oby” Katryn Ezekwesili
Founder and CEO, Human Capital Africa
Pablo Hernández de Cos
Governor, Bank of Spain
Radosław Sikorski
Chairman of the EU-USA Delegation, European Parliament
Roberto de Oliveira Campos Neto
Governor of Banco Central do Brasil
Sarah Breeden
Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk and a member of the Financial Policy Committee (FPC)
Sylvie Goulard
Deputy Governor, Banque de France
Walter Schalka
CEO of Suzano
Alejandra Kindelán
Chair and CEO of the Spanish Banking Association (AEB)
Cristina Manzano
Director of Esglobal and editorial coordinator of Pensamiento Iberoamericano
James Harding
Founder Tortoise
Jonathan Hill
Former European Commissioner for Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union
José Juan Ruiz
Chairman of the Elcano Royal institute
Sonja Gibbs
Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance Institute of International Finance (IIF)
2021: Turning Point: Roles and Responsibilities in the post-COVID world
2020: Purpose in the next normal
2019: Banking on trust
2018: Responsible banking in an age of disruption
2017: Financial services in a digital economy
2016: Reinventing Banking
2015: New challenges for a new era
2014: Building resilence for a new cycle
2013: Building new foundations and advancing to banking union in Europe
2012: Global and local solutions for growth and stability
2011: A global financial system for a global economy
2010: The role of the financial system
2009: The new international financial system
2008: Towards a European retail financial services market