This public lecture is presented jointly by the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences and the Delegation of the European Union to Australia. It will be preceded by a light lunch commencing at 12.00.
 

The lecture will discuss the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Europe – the world’s largest economy; the strategy the EU has put in place to guide recovery of the European economy and create growth; as well as the EU’s role in the G20 process of coordination between major economies.  

 

Peter Bekx, a Belgian national, is the Director of International Economic and Financial Affairs in the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Prior to that, he was the Director of Business Statistics in Eurostat. Peter Bekx graduated in Economics from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), where he also obtained a MSc in Statistics and Econometrics and a doctorate in Economics. He was Professor of Economics at the Free University of Brussels for six years. In 1985, he joined the European Commission, where he held a number of posts in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, including a four-year period as the Head of the Economic and Financial section of the Commission's Delegation in Washington DC. From 2002 to 2006, Peter was the deputy head of cabinet of the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs. Peter Bekx has published extensively on various topics related to monetary integration, exchange rate regimes, and econometric modelling.

RSVP  3rd May 2010 to Europe@anu.edu.au     

To view the flyer for this event please see: Europe and the Global Financial Crisis