The International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director, Rodrigo de Rato, will open the 3rd International Derivatives and Financial Market Conference in Campos do Jordão, Brazil, scheduled to be held during the 22nd and 25th of August, 2007. Mr. Rato will speak at the Conference’s official opening ceremony, on Tuesday, and Nobel Prize winner Edmund Phelps will open the plenary sessions on the following day.
Rodrigo de Rato assumed office as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on June 7, 2004. Prior to taking up his position at the IMF, Mr. de Rato was Vice President for Economic Affairs and Minister of Economy for the Government of Spain.
In his capacity as Minister of Economy, Mr. de Rato was also Governor for Spain on the Boards of Governors of the IMF, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He also represented Spain during World Trade Organization ministerial events.
The professional experience of both Mr. Rato and Mr. Phelps suggests that the 3rd International Derivatives and Financial Market Conference, promoted by BM&F, may contribute to the exchange of ideas on accelerating development and generating jobs without compromising the stability and control of inflation.
The first edition of the Conference was opened by Brazil’s ex-President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso. One of the most popular lectures was given by Noble Prize winner, Myron Scholes, co-author of the famous Black and Scholes options pricing model. Edmund Phelps is the latest Nobel Prize winner in Economics (2006). Columbia University professor, Albert Fishlow, also participated in the Conference’s first edition in 2003.
The third edition of the International Derivatives and Financial Market Conference will once again bring together leading market specialists from Brazil and round the world. This year, such themes as hedge fund asset allocation; credit derivatives in Brazil; paradigm changes in interest rate models; financial integration without volatility; importance of international trade and market structure in the growth of emerging markets; structured finance and Basel; and the efficiency of pricing models will be discussed.
Such names as Anne Krueger (IMF’s former managing director); Damiano Brigo (risk model specialist); Gustavo Franco (ex-president of Brazil’s Central Bank); Kenneth Singleton (econometric methods and dynamic asset pricing models specialist); Luiz Carlos Mendoça de Barros (ex-minister of Communications, ex-president of BNDES, and ex-director of Brazil’s Central Bank); Nassim Nicholas Taleb (professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts); and Ricardo Caballero (Ford International Professor of Economics and co-director of the World Economic Laboratory at MIT) have been confirmed to participate at the next Conference in August 2007.
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IMF’s Managing Director, Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo, will open the 3rd International Derivatives and Financial Market Conference
Date 05/03/2007