French PM's economic adviser to give lecture

Christian de Boissieu, economic adviser to French Prime Minister François Fillon, will be addressing a public talk at the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry on What Are The Challenges Of The Exit Strategies For The World Economy And Europe? on April 8 at 6.30 p.m. This talk is organised by the French Embassy in collaboration with The Today Public Policy Institute.

As the world struggles to emerge from one of the deepest recessions for 70 years and the eurozone comes under exceptional pressure, his talk on the challenges of the exit strategies for the world economy and Europe could not be more timely.

In a wide-ranging analysis, Prof. de Boissieu will consider three factors which will probably determine the outcome.

The first is the strength of the global recovery and whether it can be self-sustaining. The second is the scale of the sovereign debt problems in Greece and elsewhere, and whether they can be controlled. And the third is the skill, ingenuity and good judgment with which the world's central banks and finance ministers design and coordinate the withdrawal of monetary and fiscal stimulus which have propped up the global and national economies so far.

Prof. de Boissieu is currently chairman of the Conseil d'Analysis Economique (the Advisory Economic Council) to the French Prime Minister.

He is also professor of monetary and financial economics at the University Paris - Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he is the director of the Master's Degree in banking and finance.

Prof. de Boissieu is also a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission and the European Parliament, as well as a number of banks in Malta.

Attendance at the talk at the Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry will be on a first-come-first-served basis. Those attending are asked to be seated by 6.15 p.m.