20 years of ESCB statistics: What's next?

Welcome reception
Conference dinner hosted by Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank

Keynote speech by Sabine Lautenschläger

Opening address

Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank

Session 1 New data needs for monetary policy

Chair: Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

• Jan Smets, Governor, Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique
• Pablo García, Member of the Board, Central Bank of Chile
• Ewald Nowotny, Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Discussant: Natacha Valla, Deputy Director General, Monetary Policy, European Central Bank

Session 2 New data needs for financial stability

Chair: Ardo Hansson, Governor, Eesti Pank

• Philip R. Lane, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland and Chair, Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board
• Richard Berner, Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
• Luiz Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

Discussant: Hans-Helmut Kotz, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Session 3 Can technology and innovation help? New data-generating possibilities

Chair: Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

• Alberto Pace, Head of Data Management, European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN)
• Claudia Buch, Vice-President, Deutsche Bundesbank
• Mariana Kotzeva, Director General, Eurostat
• Werner Bier, Deputy Director General Statistics, European Central Bank

Session 4 Data: sharing and communicating

Chair: Aurel Schubert, Director General Statistics, European Central Bank

• Andréa M. Maechler, Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank
• Alan Smith, Data Visualisation Editor, Financial Times
• Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Bruegel and Peterson Institute for International Economics

Discussant: Brian Blackstone, Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal

Concluding remarks

Danièle Nouy, Chair of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank

End of conference