Liaquat ahamed biography

Discover the insights and perspectives of a Pulitzer Prize Winner, whose work delves into the intricacies of economic history and provides a deep understanding of the forces that shape our world. Liaquat Ahamed — exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers bureau — has been a professional investment manager for twenty-five years and currently serves as Director of Putnam Funds.

He has worked at the World Bank in Washington, D. Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers bureau, Liaquat Ahamed has degrees in economics from Harvard and Cambridge universities. When the global economy was racked by its worst crisis since the Great Depression, there was a renewed interest in the lessons to be learned from the world economic collapse of the late s.

Drawing on his best-selling, Pulitzer-prize winning book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World , Liaquat discusses the insights we can gain from the Great Depression about the forces that cause global financial crises, the similarities between the breakdown in the s and the current meltdown and the actions economic officials need to take in order to reverse the downward spiral in the world economy and avoid a repeat of that cataclysm.

During the s and s at the time of the Great Depression, central bankers had to deal with multiple challenges: real estate and stock market bubbles and busts, collapses in confidence, runs on the financial system, disruptive capital flows, unstable exchange rates and currency and trade wars. Over the last six years central bankers have faced similar challenges.

Drawing on his best-selling, Pulitzer-prize winning book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat will describe the similarities and differences between then and now and assess the actions economic officials have taken to avoid a repeat of the cataclysm of the s. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Life and work. Liaquat Ahamed

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