【Topic】The Euro-Area Debt Crisis and the Way Forward --- A Dialogue with Klaus Regling, Head of ESM

【Time】10:00 – 11:00 am, June 5, 2013

【Venue】Room 301, Shunde Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Speaker】Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), CEO of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)

【Moderator】 David Daokui Li, Director of Tsinghua CCWE; Dean of the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University【Speaker Bio】

Klaus Regling is the first Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism. He is also the CEO of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), a position he has held since the creation of the EFSF in July 2010.

Klaus Regling has worked for 35 years as an economist in senior positions in the public and the private sector in Europe, Asia and the U.S., including a decade with the IMF in Washington and Jakarta and a decade with the German Ministry of Finance where he prepared Economic and Monetary Union in Europe. From 2001 to 2008 he was Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission.

During 2008-09, he spent a year at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore where he researched financial and monetary integration in Asia. Subsequently he opened an economic and financial consultancy in Brussels.

Previously, Klaus Regling had gained experience in the private sector as Managing Director of the Moore Capital Strategy Group in London (1999-2001) and as an economist with the German Bankers’ Association. Mr. Regling studied economics at the Universities of Hamburg and Regensburg.