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Huw van Steenis

Huw van Steenis

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Huw van Steenis, a former senior adviser to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, is Chair of Sustainable Finance at UBS and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Financial and Monetary Systems.

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  1. The Financial Climate Has Reached a Tipping Point
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    The Financial Climate Has Reached a Tipping Point

    Sep 23, 2020 Huw van Steenis sees disclosure standards and other financial-industry trends moving in a “greener” direction.

  2. The New Digital-Payments Race
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    The New Digital-Payments Race

    Apr 21, 2020 Huw van Steenis urges central banks to respond to the rise of new payment technologies with extreme caution.

  3. The Digital Money Revolution
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    The Digital Money Revolution

    Nov 13, 2019 Huw van Steenis explains how policymakers should respond to the decline of cash and an explosion in new payment methods.

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    The Ukraine-Russia Culture War

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub survey the heated battles that have been playing out far from the physical battlefield.
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    The Poverty of AI Pessimism

    Jim O'Neill questions the increasingly popular sentiment that the technology will be economically destabilizing.
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    The Post-American Middle East

    Mark Leonard explains how the region became a laboratory for a future in which the US is not the sole hegemon.
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    How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

    Gernot Wagner offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.
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    Can the ECB Escape Its Own Trap?

    Otmar Issing examines the policy dilemma facing central banks as they try to shrink their bloated balance sheets.
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    The Democrats’ Disastrous Debt Deal

    James K. Galbraith decries the party’s willingness to play along with the Republicans’ bad-faith politicking.
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    Building a Biotech Alliance of Democracies

    Jafer Ahmad & Abigail Kukura explains how the US and its allies and partners can maintain leadership in a strategically vital sector.
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    The Transatlantic Carbon-Pricing Clash

    Daniel Gros predicts that the opposing approaches taken by the US and the EU will lead to trade and political frictions.
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    The Geopolitics of Nature

    Simon Zadek highlights the fatal flaw in green “solutions” like the EU’s new deforestation legislation.

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