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AsiaSource: Asian Financial Crisis Revisited:  Challenges Over the Next Decade

Trends in Asian Financial Sectors
June 20 and 21, 2007
San Francisco

Conference Overview

Opening and Welcome Remarks by Janet Yellen, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Keynote Address: Tim Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Panel Presentations
I. Asia’s Economic Outlook

Robert Madsen (Moderator), Senior Fellow, MIT Center for International Studies
YK Choi
, Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics, U. of C., Berkeley
Kihwan Kim, Chairman, Seoul Financial Forum
Ted Truman
, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute of International Economics, and former Asst. Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs

II. Structural Challenges to Growth
Joseph Quinlan (Moderator), Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, Banc of America Capital Management, and Non-Resident Fellow, Pacific Council on International Policy
Rob Dugger, Managing Director, Tudor Investment Corp.
Elizabeth Economy, Director, Asia Programs, Council on Foreign Relations
Homi Kharas, Visiting Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development, Brookings Institution, and former World Bank Chief Economist for Asia and the Pacific
Dan Sneider, Deputy Director, Shorenstein A/PARC, Stanford University
III. Financial Infrastructure
Doug Bereuter (Moderator), President, The Asia Foundation
Susan Chang, Vice Chairperson, Financial Supervisory Commission, Taiwan
Jesus Estanislao, President & CEO, Philippines Institute of Corporate Directors, and former secretary of finance
Jonathan Fiechter, Deputy Director, Monetary & Capital Markets, IMF
Deborah Schuler, Senior Vice President, Moody's Singapore
Gary Tseng, Counselor, Financial Supervisory Commission, Taiwan
IV. Financial Markets
Jack Wadsworth (Moderator), Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley
John Bailey, Managing Director, Standard & Poor’s
Tim Dattels
, Partner, TPG Capital
Greg Fager, Director, Asia/Pacific, Institute of International Finance
Fred Hu, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Asia
V. Regional Integration

Henny Sender (Moderator), Senior Special Writer, Money & Investing, The Wall Street Journal
Nicholas Hope, Deputy Director, Stanford Center for International Development
Masahiro Kawai, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute
Clay Lowery, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury
Mark Spiegel, Director, Center for Pacific Basin Studies, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Featured Speakers
Eisuke Sakakibara, former Japanese Vice Minister of Finance and Professor, Waseda University
Anne Krueger, Special Advisor to the Managing Director and former First Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Comments by Clay Lowery, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Treasury Department