This year’s SAFE Summer Academy will examine aspects that impact capital markets’ development in Europe. The agenda includes the following topics:

• product and portfolio design, in particular with regard to pension planning,
• securities markets architecture, 
• market supervision and the question: Do we need a European SEC?

The academy’s objective will be to develop a road map for dynamic capital markets in Europe and to discuss it with senior representatives from European institutions. 

Speakers and Panelists:  

• Nathalie Berger (Head of Unit Insurance and Pensions, DG FISMA, European Commission)
• John Berrigan (Deputy Director-General, DG FISMA, European Commission)
• Monika Bütler (Professor of Economics, University of St. Gallen)
• Sandra Hack (Leader of Pensions Policy Team, EIOPA)
• Philippe Lamberts (Member of the European Parliament)
• Jung Duk Lichtenberger (Deputy Head of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) Unit, DG FISMA, European Commission)
• Reza Moghadam (Vice-Chairman Global Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley)
• Theo Nijman (Professor of Econometrics and Finance, Tilburg University)
• Martin Parkes (Director, Global Government Public Policy, BlackRock)
• Rainer Riess (Director General, Federation of European Securities Exchanges AISBL)
• Elisabeth Roegele (Chief Executive Director of Securities Supervision, BaFin)
• Bernhard Scherer (Head of Product Development, Bankhaus Lampe)
• Mette Sicard Filtenborg (Head of Corporate Affairs Department, ESMA)
• Klaus Wiener (Member of the Management Board and Chief Economist, GDV)
• Thomas Wieser (Chairman, Euro-Working Group, Council of the European Union)

Dinner Speech: 

“Just Finance? – Rawls and Rent-Seeking Regulation in the EU” by Hartmut Kliemt, Professor of Philosophy & Economics (Emeritus), Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.