European Unity and Ethical Economics

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European Unity and Ethical Economics

 

Monday, April 18, 2022
12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET
Zoom
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The Student Leadership and Ethics Board of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co Center for Leadership and Ethics invites you to join us for a virtual fireside chat with former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis, in conversation with Adam Shelepak '23.

This conversation will focus on the European Union and its extensive transformation over the past decade, from the European Debt Crisis, to Brexit, and now the war in Ukraine. Specifically, we will ask Yanis for his thoughts on the future of capitalism in Europe, how the Western system will continue to adapt and evolve, and progressive frameworks for more ethical economics and business.

About the Speaker:


Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and politician who, as Greece’s Finance Minister in 2015, led the struggle against the European Union’s and the International Monetary Fund’s austerity and bank bailout policies. Since then he co-founded DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement) and is the leader of MeRA25, DiEM25’s political party in Greece. Before his election to Greece’s Parliament, Varoufakis taught economics in universities in Britain, Australia, the United States and Greece for three decades. He holds a chair in economic theory at the University of Athens and is Honorary Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Honoris Causa Professor of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Torino, Visiting Professor of Political Economy at King’s College, London, and Doctor of the University Honoris Causa at the University of Sussex. He is also the author of several best-selling books.

About the Moderator:


Adam Shelepak is a first-year MBA candidate at Columbia Business School. Prior to Columbia, Adam was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman where he was an associate in the education and training group usually working with private equity investors. Adam is deeply passionate about his home community in Upstate New York and helped launch a retail grocery business to improve food access in Ithaca, New York. Through all his work, Adam seeks to find deeper meaning and understanding through human connections. He holds an undergraduate degree in public policy analysis from Cornell University.

When
April 18th, 2022 12:15 PM through  1:00 PM
Location
Online
NY
United States