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Date: October 10, 1997
Former President of the European Monetary Institute to Speak on Europe's Monetary Union
Princeton, N.J. -- Alexandre Lamfalussy, former president of the European Monetary Institute, will give a lecture entitled "Back to Fundamentals: Why a Monetary Union for Europe -- And Why Now" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, October 14, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
Lamfalussy was president of the European Monetary Institute from January 1994 to June 1997. Previously he served as a member of the Committee for the Study of Economic and Monetary Union ( the "Delors Committee") and was general manager of the Bank for International Settlements. Earlier in his career he was the executive director and chair of the executive board of the Banque de Bruxelles.
An academic as well as an economist, Lamfalussy was a professor at the University of Louvain, Belgium, his undergraduate alma mater. He received his D.Phil.Economics from Oxford University and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Lyons and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences. His publications include The Restructuring of the Financial Industry: A Central Banking Perspective (1992) and Economic Policy for Europe (co-author, 1975), as well as numerous articles on economic issues.
His lecture is sponsored by the Sawyer Seminar on European Monetary Union, the John Foster Dulles Program for the Study of Leadership in International Affairs, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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