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World Bank Chief Economist to Deliver 2022 Raben Lecture on Feb. 7

Carmen Reinhart
Carmen Reinhart, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of The World Bank Group, will deliver a lecture titled “Central Banks and the Inflationary Aftermath of COVID-19” on Feb. 7, 2022.

Carmen Reinhart, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of The World Bank Group, will deliver the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture on Feb. 7, 2022. The lecture, “Central Banks and the Inflationary Aftermath of COVID-19,” will take place at 4:30 p.m. online.

The lecture is open to the Yale community. To attend, register by Monday, Feb. 7, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Reinhart assumed her current role at the World Bank in June 2020 and has provided thought leadership to the Bank throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Among her responsibilities at the Bank, she manages the Development Economics Department. In addition to her work at the World Bank, she serves on the Advisory Panels of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the International Monetary Fund. Reinhart holds her position at the Bank on a public service leave from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System.

Reinhart’s research on capital flows, exchange rate policy, banking and sovereign debt crises, and contagion has informed the contemporary understanding of financial crises in both advanced economies and emerging markets. In particular, her book (with Kenneth S. Rogoff), This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, has been translated into more than 20 languages and won the Paul A. Samuelson Award. Ranked among the top economists worldwide based on publications and scholarly citations, Reinhart has been listed among Bloomberg Markets Most Influential 50 in Finance, Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, and Thomson Reuters’ The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. Among her many honors, she has been awarded the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and the Adam Smith Award from the National Association for Business Economics. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

A series of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture honors the memory of John R. Raben ’39. A partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Raben was counsel to investment banking and accounting firms and associations, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and counsel to the industry task force that helped draft the Securities Investor Protection Corporation legislation.

Established in 1999, the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law has a wide-ranging objective to enhance the quality of students’ educational experience and of faculty research in the business law area, by increasing exposure to and engagement with contemporary business law issues.