CID Speaker Series: Bank Regulation meets Human Rights – Can bank regulators make the world a better place? How?

Date: 

Friday, December 8, 2017, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Perkins Room - R-429 Rubenstein 4th floor

Speaker: Daniel M. Schydlowsky, Ph.D., Superintendent of Banking, Insurance and Private Retirement Funds, Republic of Peru, 2011-2015.

About the Talk: Businesses listen to their bankers, the bankers listen to the Bank Regulators: this generates leverage. It also provides opportunity to further respect for Human Rights in a variety of ways, while lowering risk for the banking community.

 

About the Speaker: Dr. Daniel Schydlowsky served as Superintendent of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators of Peru (SBS), August, 2011- November, 2015. He concurrently served as President of the Association of Bank Supervisors of the Americas (ASBA) and as Chairman of Governing Council of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI).

In October, 2015, he was awarded the inaugural Edward W. Claugus Award for Excellence in Regulation of Micro Finance. From 2001 to 2006, Dr. Schydlowsky served in the administration of President Alejandro Toledo as Presidential Counselor for Economic and Financial Affairs (2001-2002), as President of Peru´s Development Finance Corporation, COFIDE, (2002-2006), as member of the board of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (2002-2006), as well as of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), (2002-2006). He has also served as member of the Advisory Council and as Vice President of The Latin American Association of Development Finance Institutions, ALIDE. Dr. Schydlowsky has had a long and distinguished academic career.

During 2010, he was Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and concurrently Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government of the Harvard Kennedy School. He was previously Professor of Economics at Boston University (1972-1990) and at The American University in Washington D.C. (1990-2001) and also a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since leaving government, he has served as consultant to the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Inter-American Development Bank on matters of financial inclusion and digital finance. In earlier years, he has been a consultant to different international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the World Bank, UNDP and USAID.

He has worked in most Latin American countries as well as in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Romania and South Africa. He has published eight books and ninety-three professional articles on economic issues in numerous professional journals. Professor Schydlowsky holds a BA and MA in Economics and an LLB from San Marcos University, Peru, and an MA and PhD in Economics from Harvard. He was awarded a Doctorate honoris causa by San Marcos University, Peru, in November, 2015.