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There are relatively new heads of state in the US, France, and the United Kingdom;German leaders still have not formed a governing coalition since the general election in September; and the US Federal Reserve has a new chair awaiting confirmation.
Second, let us hope that the Fed, guided by the steady hand of its new chair, Jerome “Jay” Powell, will continue or even accelerate its monetary-policy normalization, both by raising its benchmark federal funds rate, and by shrinking its engorged balance sheet.
That is why a group of public intellectuals from around the world has created the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), which I chair.
With the decision about raising rates such a close call, one would think that the Fed would be inclined to do it this year, given that the chair and vice chair have pretty much told the market for months that this will happen.
(Full disclosure, this question was suggested by Best for Britain, an organization I helped to establish and chair.)
In 2003, Zimbabwe will joined them and, unless African countries reverse an earlier decision, Libya will chair this body for a year!
When it worked – which was not always true – the chair ruled the FOMC with an iron hand and with the near-lockstep voting support of the governors.
As the current Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, Bangladesh is committed to ensuring that the lessons learned inform the global compact.
CAMBRIDGE – Jeb Hensarling, the Republican chair of the Financial Services Committee in the US House of Representatives, delivered a wide-ranging speech last month at the Economic Club of New York, proposing to overhaul US financial regulation.
A Call to Antimicrobial ArmsJAKARTA – In December, I reported the first findings of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, which I chair.
Even when, like Bernanke, the Fed chair does not come from that world, the intellectual formation is the same as that of bankers (as are the conferences they attend).
In the past few weeks, Janet Yellen was nominated as the first female chair of the US Federal Reserve Board, and Karnit Flug became the first woman to be appointed Governor of Israel’s central bank.
Given this, many view a doctorate as a prerequisite for any Fed chair.
And Taylor was in an ideal position to deliver that message, because he served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs until 2005, which means that he met regularly with Greenspan, then the Fed’s chair, in private.
His chief mud-slinger is likely to be his newly appointed chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, the former chair of the ultra right-wing Breitbart News.
Recent research, by an independent review on antimicrobial resistance, which I chair, has modeled the phenomenon’s likely impact on the world economy.
Similarly, the vice chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Thomas Hoenig, a political independent, consistently warns about the dangers associated with megabanks.
The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, which I chair, evaluated alternative proposals to fix the current system.
With the US trade deficit the major global imbalance, attention should focus on how to increase its national savings – a question that US governments have struggled with for decades, and one that was frequently debated when I was chair of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, has repeatedly said that the impending sequence of rate hikes will be much slower than previous monetary cycles, and predicts that it will end at a lower peak level.
“At least, not as long as I sit in this chair.”
Dependent on gas, oil, and multinationals, the G-8 countries accept quite a lot of guff from their current chair, Vladimir Putin.
This was endorsed in the report Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development, whose chair, Norway's then Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Bruntland, now heads the World Health Organization (WHO).
It was a blow not only to Indonesia as the chair of Association of Southeast Asian Nations this year, but also to ASEAN itself, particularly given the organization’s quest to become an ASEAN Community by 2015.
Toward that end, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which I chair, will release a series of landmark reports next March on the implications of biodiversity decline.
This is not something that a new Fed chair, anxious to establish her anti-inflation bona fides, can say out loud.
According to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, which I chair, drug-resistant infections kill at least 700,000 people every year.
This year, South Korea – one of the best performers during the global crisis – will hold the G20 chair.
As chair of the Japan-Libya Friendship Association, I decided to find out.
Wearing traditional Libyan garb, he offered me a red cushioned chair while he sat on a simple wooden stool.
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