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Forthcoming and Recent

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(17th March) Launch of the Re-Define Report Financing the Green New Deal - Building a Green Financial System at the European Parliament. Click here for details.

(14th march) Bundestag Seminar on the Future of the Euro.

  • (4th February) "Solving the Euro crisis - Now and Forever?" Re-Define Managing Director is lecturing at the European Commission presenting a comprehensive solution to the Euro crisis . This lecture is only open for staff at the European Commission. Click here for details. 
  • (20th January) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be the discussant for a lecture by FT columnist and Re-Define Expert John Kay on Financial Regulation at the European Commission DG Internal Market at 10:30 AM

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October

  • (9th Oct) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at the IMF on the 'Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World' at a public seminar and panel discussion. The other panelists are Nobel Laureate Michael Spence, Gillian Tett Managing Editor of the Financial Times and Emannuel Mutebile, Governor of the Bank of Uganda. For details Click Here
  • (11th Oct) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at a German Development Institute sponsored seminar at the IMF on 'Regional and Global Liquidity Arrangements'. For details Click Here
  • (13th Oct) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at a European Parliament Seminar on Financial Transaction Taxes and other Innovative Sources of Financing
  • (14th Oct) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at the Eurocities Environmental Forum in Copenhagen on Business Investment in the Green Sector
  • (16th Oct) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at the third annual sp.a conference on European Economic Policy in Brussels
  • (25th-26th Oct) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be at the High Level Summit at UN - ESCAP in Bangkok speaking on how to bring a development perspective into the G-20 discussions in Seoul
  • (27th Oct) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be in Stockholm speaking at the conference on New Growth Creating Real Value
  • (28th Oct) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany on 'Europe a run down model? Survival training in times of global crisis'

 

  • (20th Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak to international NGOs and Food Security Groups about the prospect for the Regulatin of Food and Commosity Derivatives in the EU
  • (21st Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will testify at the MIFID Review Public Hearing being conducted by the European Commission. He will speak about Global regulatory perespectives. Click for Agenda
  • (31st Aug) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will deliver the keynote address at the EMF Summer School in Croatia
  • (1st Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at a breakfast briefing at the Austrian Ministry of Finance to officials from the Finance Ministry and Central Bank and representatives from the Chambers of Commerce and Chamber of Trade, Think Tanks, Trade Unions and Civil Society on topics ranging from European Governance Reform to Financial Regulation and Taxation of the Financial Sector
  • (2nd Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak to a joint gathering of staff members from the US Congress and European Parliament at an event hosted by the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Brussels
  • (3rd Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will deliver an address to a board meeting of the Social Platform in Hallstatt in Austria
  • (14th Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will deliver a Key Note Address at the Heinrich Boell Stiftung in Berlin entitled "Lehman is Dead - Long live Lehman" on the 14th Sept at 19:30 Click Here for Details
  • (15th Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be presenting Re-Define's ongoing work on European Economic Governance at the FEPS annual Franco German Co-operation meeting in Brussels
  • (16th Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor spoke at the IMF High Level Meeting on Financial Sector Taxation informing governments and IMF staff about the most recent in house work at Re-Define on this
  • (17th Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor discussed Financial Regulation, the upcoming G-20 Agenda and Financial Transaction Taxes at the French Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs
  • (20th Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak to international NGOs and Food Security Groups about the prospect for the Regulatin of Food and Commosity Derivatives in the EU
  • (21st Sept) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will testify at the MIFID Review Public Hearing being conducted by the European Commission. He will speak about Global regulatory perespectives. Click for Agenda

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May 2010

  • (12th May) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at a conference on Development Finance in Cape Town, South Africa
  • (17th May) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be testifying at the German Parliament as an expert witness. For Written Submission in German Click Here. For Written Submission in English Click Here. 
  • (19th-20th May) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be participating in a high level intergovernmental meeting on financial regulation being hosted by the German Finance Minister. For the program Click Here.
  • (26th May) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at an expert workshop on the Low Income Perspective on Financial Reforms. The workshop is jointly organized by Re-Define and SOMO. Click Here.

 

June 2010

  • (3rd June) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at the council meeting of UNI Europa about the Financial Crisis 
  • (3rd June) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be testifying at the meeting of Expert Advisors to the CRIS committee of the European Parliament. For the agenda, Click Here. For a webcast go to the European Parliament website. 
  • (9th June) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor to deliver the key note address at the AIFMD cycle conference organized by Ernst & Young and MGI on Hedge Fund and Private Equity regulation
  • (11th June) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will deliver a lecture entitled "Development is Dead-Long Live Development, Post Crisis Scenarios for Development" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Norway. For Details, Click Here. 
  • (11th June) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will deliver a lecture entitled "Financial System Reform - How far have we come, how far is there to go?" at FAFO and LO in Norway. Click Here.
  • (15th June) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at a Panel Discussion hosted by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation in the City of London on Bank Levies and Taxing the Financial Sector. Click Here.
  • (16th June) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will testify at the German Parliament on the subject of Short Selling and Bans on Naked Short Sales.
  • (30th June) Re-Define Managing Director will do a lunch time talk on Re-shaping the financial landscape at the IMK Research Institute and Hans Böckler Stiftung in Dusseldorf. Click Here.

July 2010

  • (5th July) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at a European Commission Conference on Financial Investors along with the Commissoner for Employment and Social Affairs. He will speak about the role of Hedge Funds, Private Equity and Sovereign Wealth Funds as Financial Investors. Click Here.
  • (6th July) Re_Define Managing Director will chair the session on Scope for International Co-operation in the Inwent conference on Strengthening Global Co-operation to foster Growth and Development. Click Here.
  • (7th July) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at a seminar in Visby, Sweden on "Alles kaputt in Euroland". Click Here. 

Older Events from 2010

April 2010

  • (28th April) Re-Define Book Launch: Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be the keynote speaker at an event co-hosted by the Fredrich Ebert Stiftung, the European Trade Union Institue and the Bertelsmann Foundation which will also launch a new Re-Define publication reviewing progress on financial regulation since the crisis broke out. The Re-Define book will chart the best and the most probable courses forward in reforming the financial system.
  • (14th April) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at a panel discussion "Who Pays for the Crisis" along with panelists from the European Commission, the European Parliament and other Think Tanks at the Permanent Mission for Austria in Brussels. 
  • (8th-11th April) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will participate in the inaugural conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Cambridge University. 

March 2010

  • (15th March) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will launch his new papers on FTTs at a Financial Transaction Tax Conference organized by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies in Brussels.
  • (18th March) Re-Define Managing to speak about "Tackling Fiscal Deficits - Alternatives to Austerity" at the EU Roadmap to Recovery Conference organized by the European Economic and Social Committee. The chairs of the European Parliament's CRIS Committee and the Employment Committee and the new EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion will also be on the panel. 
  • (22nd March) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor to speak at the ETUI Monthly Policy Forum. The title of his talk would be "Sharpening Policy Knives to fight the Resurgent Hydra" - Expanding the policy toolkit for a strategic approach to confronting economic, environmental, fiscal, financial and employment challenges in the EU. John Monks, the General Secretary of the ETUC will be the respondent.
  • (24th March) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor to deliver a lecture on the best way to regulate the financial system at the European Commission at the DG Internal Markets.
  • (25th March) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor to testify as an expert witness before the Crisis Committee of the European Parliament. He will speak about the role that poor governance played in the financial crisis and make suggestions on how governance mechanisms can be improved at the National, European and International Level.

Recent

  • (2nd December) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will testify before the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament at a hearing on Financial Transaction Taxes. Click here for the details and the archived webcast. Click here for the agenda and for Mr Kapoor's presentation.
  • (13th January) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at the European Union Economic and Social Committee Conference "After the Crisis: Towards a sustainable growth model" in Brussels at the ECOSOC Building, Rue Belliard 99, Room 62, Brussels. Click here for the agenda. Click here for the URL of the conference. Click here for the list of authors for the accompanying book launch. 
  • (27th January) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will testify before the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs at a hearing on Alternative Investment Funds. Click here for the agenda.
  • (11th February) Sony Kapoor will chair a public event in Madrid being organized by the Spanish Presidency 
  • (18th February) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be the main speaker at a closed expert workshop on Bank Levies and Financial Transaction Taxes with the Dutch Minister of Finance.

Older Pre 2010

  • (30 September) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor is delivering a lecture on the long term effects of the financial crisis on developing countries in Stockholm, Sweden on the 30th of September for NGOs, Trade Unions, the Swedish Foreign Ministry and the Swedish Finance Ministry.  Click here for details.
  • (1 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor is delivering the Keynote address on the role of innovative sources of finance in helping finance the anti HIV/ADIS effort at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London on the 1st of October 2009 14:30. The seminar is sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth Foundation, Commonwealth HIV/AIDS Action Group & The International HIV/ADIS Alliance Seminar and will be followed by a drinks reception at 18:00.
  • (2-6 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be in Istanbul at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings from the 2nd of October to the 6th of October conducting several bilateral meetings with IMF and World Bank officials as well as delegations from several countries. He will also be participating in several multilateral meetings and some panel discussions.
  • (7 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at the German Finance Ministry in Berlin on the 7th of October about what policies could be adopted at the national level to help reduce International Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion. mm Click here for details
  • (8 or 9 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be delivering a lecture "Challenges and Opportunities Ahead for Finance" at the German Finance Ministry. Please watch this space for details. 
  • (12 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be a discussant at the High Level Roundtable on Regulating the Banking Sector - Towards a Basel III? being organized in Brussels jointly by FEPS, the Financial Times, Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Friends of Europe on the 12th of October. For a copy of the Program Click Here and for a list of discussants Click Here.
  • (13 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at the meeting of the Finance and Economic Network in Brussels talking about the Future of Banking, Hedge Fund and Private Equity Reform and Financial Transaction Taxes to European Social Democrats and Parliamentarians from more than 20 Member States.
  • (15 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at a high level invitation only Bloomberg Breakfast event "Financial Reforms - What Implications for non G-20 countries" along with DfID Chief Economist Alan Winters and the Research Director of Chatham House. Sony will be talking about the substantial work Re-Define has done on the issues of the Financial System Reforms and the long term outlook for Development Finance. The event will be held at the Chatham House in London. Click Here for details.
  • (16 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at the annual conference of Norad, the Norwegian Development Agency. Watch this space for details. 
  • (19-21 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be lecturing at the Swiss Development Ministry, at UNCTAD and at the ILO over these days in Berne and Geneva. Watch this space for details.
  • (28 October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking in Copenhagen in the morning at the Union Council of the NFU and in the afternoon at the YS annual conference in Oslo. Watch this space for details.
  • (29th October) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking in Berlin at the Development Ministry talking about his work on Financial Sector Reform and the changing landscape for Development Finance. Watch this space for details.
  • (9th November) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking in Geneva at the UNI Global meeting on Private Equity and Reform of the Financial System
  • (16th November) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will be speaking at the European Parliament expert meeting on Private Equity, Hedge Funds and the Alternative Investment Fund Directive
  • (30th November) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will participate in a panel discussion on the Alternative Investment Fund Directive with EC and EP representatives at the Austrian Permanent mission to the EU. Click here for details. 
  • (2nd December) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will testify before the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament at a hearing on Financial Transaction Taxes. Click here for the details and the archived webcast. Click here for the agenda and for Mr Kapoor's presentation.
  • (13th January) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at the European Union Economic and Social Committee Conference "After the Crisis: Towards a sustainable growth model" in Brussels at the ECOSOC Building, Rue Belliard 99, Room 62, Brussels. Click here for the agenda. Click here for the URL of the conference. Click here for the list of authors for the accompanying book launch. 
  • (27th January) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will testify before the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs at a hearing on Alternative Investment Funds. Click here for the agenda. 
  • (18th February) Re-Define Managing Director Sony Kapoor will speak at a closed expert workshop on Risk Levies and the Financial Transaction Tax as the Dutch Ministry of Finance.