Grimes Participates in Symposium on 21st-Century Financial System
William Grimes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, participated in an April 11-13, 2018 symposium entitled “Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Europe and the United States,” which was sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems.
This high-level annual event brings together government officials, financial professionals, and scholars to discuss pressing issues affecting the financial systems of the United States and Europe, including economic developments and regulatory responses.
The 2018 symposium featured participants including U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury David Malpass, Commissioner Hester Peirce of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret, among others.
Grimes, who has taught at Boston University since 1996, is a leading scholar of East Asian financial regionalism. His 2008 book Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism won the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and received Honorable Mention for the 2009 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award. More recently, in conjunction with the Pardee School’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, he led a research project for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to develop a guide to best practices for regional liquidity arrangements.