The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is honored to invite you to attend the last two invited talks of this year.
Wednesday 5th of December – Emmanuel Todd: Les élites européennes: incompétence historique et anthropologique? This talk will be held in French
Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), in Paris.
Entrance is free but please register here for the talk.
Wednesday 19th of December – Michel Prada: Crise financière et régulation: progrès et problèmes. This talk will be held in French
Michel Prada is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the IFRS Foundation/Président du Conseil de Normalisation des Comptes Publics (France) and Ancien Président de l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers (France).
Entrance is free but please register here for the talk.
Both invited talks are part of the Academic Chair ‘Stewardship of Finance’ founded by Vrije Universiteit Brussel and sponsored by six major insurance companies. ‘The current financial crisis has shown that a moral reflection is most certainly necessary.’ The chairman of this new chair is Professor of economic and financial law, Michel Flamée. The holder of the chair is famous Belgian anthropologist, Paul Jorion.
19:30 Introduction by Paul Jorion
19:40 Invited talk
20:30 Q&A
21:00 Concluding remarks
Location: VUB, Promotion Hall, Building D, 2nd Floor, Campus Etterbeek, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels.
For more information on the Academic Chair, please see here