Portugal: Reform and Growth within the Euro Area

Lisbon, Portugal

March 25, 2019

AGENDA

09h15

Opening speech 

 

Carlos da Silva Costa, Governor, Banco de Portugal

 
 

09h30

SESSION 1

 

Institutional reform in the euro area

Moderator: Wolfgang Munchau, Associate Editor, Financial Times

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Professor, Paris School of Economics

Benoît Coeuré, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Poul Thomsen, Director of the European Department, IMF

 

 10h45

Coffee break

 
 

11h15

SESSION 2

 

The current recovery: where does Portugal stand?

Moderator: Pedro Santos Guerreiro, Journalist, Expresso

Alfredo Cuevas, Mission Chief for Portugal, IMF

Ricardo Reis, AW Phillips Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

Teodora Cardoso, President, Portuguese Public Finance Council, February 2012 to February 2019

 

12h15

Keynote Speech

 

David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF

 

 12h45

Lunch

 
 

14h30

SESSION 3

 

Labor and product market challenges

Moderator: Helena Garrido, Journalist

Fátima Barros, Associate Professor, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics

Mário Jorge Machado, CEO, Têxteis Adalberto

Stéphane Carcillo, Head of the Jobs and Income Division, OECD

 

 

15h30

SESSION 4
 

Financial sector: recovery and challenges

Moderator: Clara Raposo, Dean, Lisbon School of Economics & Management (ISEG)

Fernando Faria de Oliveira, President, Portuguese Banking Association

Peter Grasmann, Head of Unit, EU/Euro area financial system, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission

Mahmood Pradhan, Deputy Director of the European Department, IMF

 

 16h30

Closing Speech

 

Mário Centeno, President, Eurogroup