Rome Investment Forum 2021

Programme as of 18/11/2021
Working Languages: Italian and English (simultaneous translation provided)

09:00 – 11:00 CET – Rome Session

Next Generation Italy: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
Topics:

From Next Generation EU to the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan
Reforms and Prospects for the Italian economy and finance
Welcome

Innocenzo Cipolletta (Chairman Italian Banking Insurance and Finance Federation – FeBAF)
Keynote addresses

Paolo Gentiloni (European Commissioner for Economy)
Daniele Franco (Italian Minister of Economy and Finance)
Roberto Gualtieri (Mayor of Rome)
Thalia Chryssikou (Chairwoman AFME)
The role of the private sector for recovery, resilience and sustainable growth: financial markets, banks, insurers and manufacturers

Maria Bianca Farina (Chairwoman ANIA)
Antonio Patuelli (Chairman ABI)
Florence Lustman (Co-Chair French-Italian dialogue on financial services; President French Insurance Federation)
Emanuele Orsini (Vice President for Credit, Finance and Tax Policy, Confindustria)
Session moderated by: Alessandro Speciale, Bloomberg
11:00 – 13:00 CET – Brussels Session

The European Model of Financial Recovery Sustainability and Resilience: where do we stand?
Topics:

Banking Union and Capital Markets Union, Economic and Monetary Union, the Future of Europe
Net-Zero and Nature-Based Transitions
Innovation and integration
National Recovery and Resilience Plans
Keynote address

Irene Tinagli (Chair ECON Committee, European Parliament)
Roundtable

David Wright (Chairman Eurofi)
Adam Farkas (CEO AFME)
Luca Lazzaroli (Director General; Deputy Head of Operations EIB)
Mario Nava (Director-General, European Commission, DG REFORM)
Giovanni Sabatini (General Manager ABI, Chairman Steering Committee for Financing Growth EBF)
Karl-Peter Schackmann-Fallis (Executive Member of the Board DSGV; Co-Chair German-Italian Dialogue on financial services)
Costanza Hermanin (Research Fellow European University Institute)
Session moderated by: Nikos Chrysoloras, Bloomberg
13:00 – 14:00 CET Rome Investment Forum Empowers Talent AWARD

14:00 – 16:00 CET – London Session

Pan-European Capital Markets and Financial Integration
Topics:

Pan-European Banking Insurance and Financial Markets
SMEs capitalisation models
Public-private partnership schemes of social protection and risk reduction
Keynote addresses

Pierre Gramegna (Luxembourg Minister of Finance)

UK Minister*
Roundtable

Rym Ayadi (President Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association)
Alexander Pivovarsky (Director, Capital Markets Development, EBRB)
Mahmood Pradhan (Deputy Director, European Department, IMF)
Mark Garvin (Co-Chair Ango-Italian dialogue on financial services; Vice-President JP Morgan)
Francesco Mazzaferro (Head of ESRB Secretariat)
Federica Seganti (Executive Chair Friulia Spa)
Alessandro Varaldo (CEO Banca Aletti, Gruppo Banco BPM)
Session moderated by: Stefania Spezzati, Bloomberg
16:00 – 18:00 CET – Washington Session

Public and Private Agendas for the Post-Covid Global Transitions: Reforms and Resiliency Plans
Topics:

Financing the global recovery and public goods
Global threats and the new multilateral and transatlantic relations
The role of G20
Multilateral cooperation and the private sector
Keynote address

Mathias Cormann (Secretary General OECD)
Roundtable

Meg Lundsager (Member of the Advisory Council, Bretton Woods Committee; Public Policy Fellow, Wilson Center)
Pier Carlo Padoan (Chairman UniCredit)
Timothy Adams (President & CEO IIF)
Ken Bentsen (President & CEO SIFMA)
Nicolas Véron (Senior Fellow Bruegel and Peterson Institute for International Economics)
Franco Bassanini (Chairman Astrid)
José María Roldán (Co-Chair Spanish-Italian dialogue on financial services; Chairman & CEO Spanish Banking Association)
Bernard Spitz* (Président du Pôle International et Europe – Medef)
Session moderated by: Christopher Condon, Bloomberg