LSE Insights: 10 Years after the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons Learnt... or Forgotten?

As part of its fund-raising campaign, the London School of Economics Alumni Society of Malaysia (LSEASM) is pleased to welcome you to the latest talk in its LSE Insights Lecture Series.

We are delighted to have Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Tan Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Chairman of Permodalan Nasional Berhad and former Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia join us in Kuala Lumpur for a morning discourse on the Lessons Learnt from Previous Global Financial Crisis.

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Topic: LSE Insights: 10 Years after the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons Learnt... or Forgotten?

Date: Monday, 12 November 2018

Time:

8:15am – Registration and refreshments

9:00am – Event commences

12:00pm – Event ends with refreshments

Venue: Auditorium, Sasana Kijang, Bank Negara Malaysia, 2, Jalan Dato Onn, Kuala Lumpur, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur

Cost / Donation: RM1,500 for Corporate Sponsors (10 pax) / RM50/pax for LSEASM members / RM80/pax for non-members and the public

Limited seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Please RSVP by selecting your tickets below. For corporate sponsors, kindly reach out to us at info.lseasm@gmail.com

All net proceeds will be channeled to LSEASM’s fund raising initiatives for the LSE. We look forward to welcoming you to our event.

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About Dame Minouche Shafik

An economist by training, Minouche has spent most of her career straddling the worlds of public policy and academia. After completing her BSc in economics and politics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, she took an MSc in Economics at the LSE before completing a DPhil in Economics at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. She was appointed Director of the LSE in September 2017.

During her extensive career, Minouche has worked in senior positions at the World Bank, the Department for International Development and the IMF before becoming Deputy Governor of the Bank of England in 2014. In this role, she sat on all of the Bank's major policy committees and led the Fair and Effective Markets Review.

Minouche currently serves as a Trustee of the British Museum, the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research and is Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College Oxford. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the Queen's New Year's Honours list in 2015.

About Tan Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz

Dr. Zeti served as Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia from May 2000 to April 2016. She had an important role in managing the resolution of the financial system in 1998 during the Asian financial crisis and the consequent strong recovery of the Malaysian economy. She was also instrumental in transforming Malaysia’s financial system, including overseeing the enactment of twelve new pieces of legislation for the financial sector. During this period, the Malaysian financial system also underwent a period of progressive liberalisation.

In Asia, Dr. Zeti was active in strengthening cooperation and regional financial integration. In 2006, she chaired the regional task force that prepared the report for the future direction of central bank financial cooperation in the East Asian region. At the BIS, she was the chair of the BIS Central Bank Governance Group. In the region she was a founding member of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Asian Consultative Council, and was the first Co-chair of the Financial Stability Board Regional Consultative Council Group for Asia. Dr. Zeti also had an extensive role in the global development of Islamic finance, and was active in the global financial inclusion agenda. She has been an important voice for the emerging world on the many issues concerning the international financial system and on financial and economic management.

She is currently Co-chair, Board of Governors of Asia School of Business, established in collaboration with MIT Sloan. In May 2018, following the change in the Government of Malaysia, Dr. Zeti was appointed as a member of the Eminent Council to advise the Government on the Institutional and Structural Reforms required for the country. In July 2018, she was appointed as group chairman of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB).