williamcannon

10/19/2020

I really enjoyed having the opportunity to deliver my address at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, take part in the extraordinarily stimulating debate with the students, and exchange views and opinions with Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Benjamin Friedman.
I would like to thank Hans-Helmut Kotz for his kind invitation. It has been a great honour for me to participate for the second time in a Harvard event, and I am very much looking forward to my next visit to Cambridge. Hopefully, it will soon be safe to meet in person again.
This pandemic is first and foremost a global health crisis. But it has also robbed many of their livelihoods. As I said in my address, soaring youth unemployment and the disruptions to education have inflicted particular harm on young people around the world.
The recovery from the social and economic damage caused by the pandemic comes on top of the various challenges that we have already been facing. Policymakers across the world need input from Harvard academics and students now more than ever!

Jens Weidmann, President of Deutsche Bundesbank