Megan Greene
Megan Greene
External member of the Monetary Policy Committee
Bank of England, United Kingdom
Ms Megan Greene was appointed to the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England on 5 July 2023 for a three-year term.
She is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and also teaches at Schwarzman College (Tsinghua University) and the European University Institute. She serves on the Academic Advisory Committee at the San Francisco Federal Reserve and is a Senior Fellow in Global Macroeconomics at Chatham House. Ms Greene is an advisory board member of Rebuilding Macroeconomics and Econofact and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee.
Prior to her appointment, Ms Greene was the Global Chief Economist at Kroll, a business services and risk mitigation firm. She was also a Contributing Editor and regular columnist at the Financial Times, writing on global macroeconomics and policy. In addition, she served on the International Advisory Committee of the board of the Hong Kong stock exchange. Ms Greene previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and Global Chief Economist at John Hancock Asset Management.
She holds a BA from Princeton University and a MSc from Nuffield College, Oxford University.
Friday 12
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09.00 - 09.45
Why is the US Growing Faster than Europe? And, Must Europe Change Course?
Artemis Hall | European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Programming Partner: London School of Economics (LSE)
The US is recording higher economic growth rates than Europe. Why? The two have pursued different economic strategies in response to the COVID crisis, while having, of course, different capitalist cultures and systems. Can Europe grow and compete with its current macro-economic policy mix, governance, and welfare systems?