President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt
Jens Weidmann was born in 1968 in Solingen, Germany. He has been President of the Deutsche Bundesbank since May 2011. After studying economics in Marseille and Bonn, Weidmann earned his doctorate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. He then worked for two years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington before becoming Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Experts. In 2003, he moved to the Deutsche Bundesbank as Head of the Department of Monetary Policy and Monetary Analysis. From 2006 to 2011, Jens Weidmann was Head of the Economic and Financial Policy Department in the Federal Chancellery.
Monday, 09. March 2015, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
The eurozone finds itself in unclear territory. The growth prospects for this year are subdued and the inflation rate slipped into negative territory in the winter. On the other hand, many countries have made great progress in their adjustment efforts and an important pillar of support has been established at European level with the banking union. How much progress has the eurozone made towards a high-growth and resilient monetary union, and what steps still need to be taken?