Welcome

The Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance at King’s Business School will host its 2nd annual conference in London on 5 & 6 July 2022.

The Role of Central Banks in a Transforming World

The conference provides a platform for experts from across the globe to present and discuss new research that can help central banks deal with the fundamental shifts in the global economy and financial system that are occurring at this time. Such shifts include the immediate challenges of managing the pandemic and its aftermath, as well as a range of significant ongoing structural changes. These include climate change and the transition to net-zero, rapid developments in financial technology including the introduction of digital currencies, population ageing, and the prospect of technological advances transforming the economy as a whole. 

Keynote Speakers

Nellie Liang, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Treasury Department 

Huw Pill, Chief Economist and Executive Director for Monetary Analysis, Bank of England 

Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth 

Panels

Jagjit Chadha, Hanno Lustig, Ricardo Reis & Silvana Tenreyo  

Jumana Saleheen, Sir Jon Cunliffe, Cecilia Skingsley, George Selgin & Raphael Auer

View the full conference programme to find out more.

Registration

The Conference is free to attend. Register now to book your place.

About the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance

The Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance is a research centre at King’s Business School, King’s College London dedicated to the study of central banks and the challenges they face in the global environment. It aims to develop cutting-edge research in all areas of central bank policymaking, ranging from monetary policy to financial stability and regulation.