Hans-Helmut Kotz

Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

Dante Roscini

MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

This forum convenes leading academics, senior experts and policy makers to analyze current and emerging European economic policy issues and effective responses. The aim is to facilitate and deepen understanding of European and Eurozone economies and to generate ideas for confronting European economic policy challenges.

Sigmar Gabriel, Vice Chancellor of Germany, spoke to students at CES on October 23, 2014 as part of the European Economic Policy Forum.

European Economic Policy Forum — A Restart for the Franco-German Engine

October 27, 2025
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Jakob von Weizsäcker – Minister of Finance and Science of the Saarland, Federal Republic of Germany
Moderated by Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — European Economies: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place?

October 31, 2024
2:15pm - 3:45pm

Sarah Guillou – Director, Innovation and Competition Department, Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Économiques, Sciences Po
Cecilia Malmström – Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; European Commissioner for Trade (2014 - 2019)
Adam S. Posen – President, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — A Conversation with Romano Prodi –Europe in the Changing Geopolitical Landscape

March 4, 2024
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Romano Prodi – Prime Minister, Republic of Italy (1996-98; 2006-08); President, European Commission (1999-2004)
Chair Dante Roscini – MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

European Economic Policy Forum — Global Discord: Europe, Big Loser or Big Winner?

November 27, 2023
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Sir Paul Tucker – Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Deputy Governor, The Bank of England (2009-2013)
Karl Kaiser – Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar (1977-1978), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar (1985-1986), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Olivia White – Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Director, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)
Mark Wu – Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Chair and Discussant Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — Rigor or Flexibility: Conflict over EU Governance Architecture

November 7, 2023
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Ignazio Angeloni – Member of the Supervisory Board, Single Supervisory Mechanism (2014-2019), European Central Bank; Professor, Robert Schuman Center, European University Institute in Florence; Senior Policy Fellow, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt
Jeffry Frieden – Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University, Harvard University
Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — Twilight of the "German Model"?

April 13, 2023
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Mário José Gomes de Freitas Centeno – Governor, Banco de Portugal; Former Minister of Finance (2025 to 2020), Portuguese Republic; Former President of the Eurogroup (2018 to 2020)
Gabriel Felbermayr – Director, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO); University Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Dalia Marin – Professor of International Economics, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich
Cornelia Woll – President and Professor of International Political Economy, Hertie School; Member of the Advisory Board of the Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

Visit by European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness | The Future of Finance: The EU-US Relationship in Sustainable and Digital Finance

European Economic Policy Forum & Harvard European Law Association — Visit by European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness | The Future of Finance: The EU-US Relationship in Sustainable and Digital Finance

April 12, 2023
12:15pm - 1:30pm

Mairead McGuinness – European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
Chair Howell Jackson – James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

European Economic Policy Forum — The European Central Bank’s Mandate: Providing for Affordable Cost of Living in Europe

October 17, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm

Joachim Nagel – President, Deutsche Bundesbank; Member, Governing Council of the European Central Bank
Benjamin Friedman – William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — Putin's War and the "German" Economic Model

May 3, 2022
12:00pm - 1:15pm

Jérôme Creel – Research Director, Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE), Sciences Po; Associate Professor of Economics, ESCP Business School, Paris
Dalia Marin – Professor of International Economics, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich
Dirk Schumacher – Head of European macro research & Managing Director, Natixis Germany; Managing Director (1999-2016), Goldman Sachs
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum & Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies — The Impact of Russian Sanctions

March 8, 2022
11:00am - 12:00pm

Sergey Aleksashenko – Member of the Board, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and the Free Russia Foundation
Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)
Adam Smith – Partner, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP; Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), United States Department of Treasury;, Director for Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council (2010-2015)
Moderated by Alexandra Vacroux – Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

European Economic Policy Forum — A European Journey Through Two Crises

December 6, 2021
1:00pm - 2:15pm

Marco Buti – Head of Cabinet of Commissioner of Economy Paolo Gentiloni, European Commission; Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (2008-2019), European Commission
Jeffry Frieden – Chair of the Department of Government and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University
Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell – Associate, Austrian Institute of Economic Research; Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank (2003-2011)
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — Resilient Societies

November 16, 2021
12:30pm - 1:45pm

Markus Brunnermeier – Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics & Director of the Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University
Mekala Krishnan – Partner, McKinsey Global Institute
Sofia A. Perez – Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — Fiscal Policy in the European Union: Are New Rules Needed?

May 12, 2021
12:30pm - 1:45pm

Laurence Boone – Chief Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Elena Carletti – Full Professor of Finance, Bocconi University
Tuomas Saarenheimo – President, Eurogroup Working Group
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — The New Italian Government: A Last Chance for Italy and Europe?

April 20, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm

Francesco Giavazzi – Senior Professor of Economics, Università Bocconi
Thomas Mayer – Founding Director, Flossbach von Storch Research Institute; Honorary Professor, University of Witten-Herdecke
Lucrezia Reichlin – Full Professor of Economics, London Business School
Chair Dante Roscini – MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

European Economic Policy Forum — Lessons from Europe's Financial Assistance to Greece

November 18, 2020
12:15pm - 1:15pm

Joaquín Almunia – Independent High-Level Evaluator, European Stability Mechanism (ESM); European Commissioner for Competition (2010-2014)
Miranda Xafa – Senior Fellow, Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); Member of the Executive Board, International Monetary Fund (2004-2009)
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

European Economic Policy Forum — What’s the EU for? Thinking about EU-level Public Goods in a Post-COVID World

November 12, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm

Marco Buti – Head of Cabinet, European Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Taxation
Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
Daniela Schwarzer – Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann Foundation
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

European Economic Policy Forum — Deglobalization, Disrupted Education, and Debt: Economic Policy Challenges Following the Pandemic

October 19, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm

Jens Weidmann – President, Deutsche Bundesbank; Member of the Governing Council, European Central Bank (ECB)
Beatrice Weder di Mauro – President, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Benjamin Friedman – William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

European Economic Policy Forum — CANCELLED - The European Central Bank Between the Financial Crisis and Populisms

March 25, 2020
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Sebastian Diessner – Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute
Corrado Macchiarelli – Principal Economist, UK National Institute of Economic and Social Research; Visiting Scholar 2018-2019, CES, Harvard University
Claudia Wiesner – Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair, Fulda University of Applied Sciences; Visiting Scholar 2018-2019, CES, Harvard University
Sofia A. Perez – Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Sir Paul Tucker – Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Deputy Governor, The Bank of England (2009-2013)
Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

European Economic Policy Forum — How Much Union Is Needed in Euro Area Finance?

November 6, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi – Chairman, Société Générale; Member of the Executive Board (2005-2011), European Central Bank
Stefan Collignon – Professor of Political Economy, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies; International Chief Economist, Centro Europa Ricerche (CER); John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2019, CES, Harvard University
Megan Greene – Former Global Chief Economist, ManuLife Investment Management; Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

European Economic Policy Forum — Initiative for Europe: Two Years Since Macron's Sorbonne Address

October 30, 2019
12:30pm - 2:00pm

Carsten Brzeski – Chief German Economist, ING Bank; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2019, CES, Harvard University
Michaela Wiegel – Correspondent, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard Faculty

European Economic Policy Forum — Europe’s Travails: Forging a French-German Response in an Era of Transatlantic Disequilibrium

October 22, 2019
4:30pm - 5:45pm

Henrik Enderlein – President and Professor of Political Economy, Hertie School
Jean Pisani-Ferry – Senior Professor of Economics and Public Management, Hertie School; Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Jeffrey Frankel – James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School
Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate, Harvard University
Moderated by Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Economic European Policy Forum — Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century

April 30, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
David Soskice – Professor of Political Science and Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University
Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University
Chair Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government & CES Acting Director, Harvard University

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