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Dinner with Professor Charles Goodhart, Geneva, Thursday, 3.5.2001
Charles GoodhartAlumnae, alumni and friends of the LSE are cordially invited to dine with Professor Charles Goodhart, The Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the School,

on Thursday, 3 May 2001, at 7 p.m.,

at the Château de Penthes
Chemin de l'Impératrice 18
1292 Geneva-Pregny
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"Independent monetary policy under the Euro" will be the topic of Professor Goodhart's pre-dinner talk.

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Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA, is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics. Before joining the LSE in 1985, he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. In 1997, he was appointed one of the outside independent members of the Bank of England's new Monetary Policy Committee until May 2000. Earlier he had taught at Cambridge and the LSE. Besides numerous articles, he has written a couple of books on monetary history, and a graduate monetary textbook, "Money, Information and Uncertainty" (2nd Ed. 1989); and has published two collections of papers on monetary policy, "Monetary Theory and Practice" (1984) and "The Central Bank and the Financial System" (1995); and an institutational study of "The Evolution of Central Banks", revised and republished (MIT Press) in 1988.

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Transport:
- Buses "V" and "Z" from the Central Station, 5-minute ride, the stop is directly in front of the Château
- Ample car parking spaces at the Château

The dining facilities at the Château will open exclusively for the SLSEAA party. So don't be tricked by thinking that the private property is off-limits. Just walk into the park. The dining hall is next to the main building.

Dress: Business attire

Lead Officer: Ronald Wilkens, Activities & Events Officer

 
 
 
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