2019 Homer Jones Memorial Lecture

June 25, 2019

Lecture by Carmen Reinhart

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Carmen Reinhart presented the 2019 Homer Jones Memorial Lecture on June 25. She provided a brief tour of near-term risks and long-run concerns for the global economy.

Read the related article in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review: A Short Tour of Global Risks.

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Welcoming Remarks by James Bullard

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard welcomed attendees to the annual lecture and introduced Reinhart. View text version of Bullard's welcoming remarks.

Q&A Session

Following the presentation, Reinhart conducted a Q&A session with the audience.

Reinhart’s professional experience spans Wall Street, academia and public policy. An expert in international economics, Reinhart co-authored one of the most definitive books on financial crises, called “This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.” She is a prominent voice in policy debates in the U.S. and around the world, and twice was named one of the 50 Most Influential people by Bloomberg Markets magazine.

Reinhart is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she was deputy director at the International Monetary Fund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and chief economist at Bear Stearns.

Reinhart serves on the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was previously a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers. Based on publications and scholarly citations, she ranks No. 1 among the female economists in the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database.

About the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture

This lecture series is named for Homer Jones (1906-1986), who exemplified the highest qualities of leadership in economics and public policy. As St. Louis Fed research director and later senior vice president, Jones played a major role in developing the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as a leader in monetary research and statistics.

Watch past lectures and learn about the speakers.