Event

The Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance will host a seminar entitled “Strategies to Cope with Global Uncertainty – Choices for Caribbean Business and Finance” on Friday 4^th September 4, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This seminar is hosted by the Bank of Jamaica and will take place at the Seabed Conference Centre, Kingston, Jamaica.

This seminar is intended to assist Caribbean CEOs and top managers of business and financial companies in planning strategies to cope with global financial and economic turmoil.  We have put together an agenda that brings together sophisticated financial market expertise, the accumulated experience of the IMF (the world’s leading official International Financial Institution) and decades of experience of practitioners in the financial, tourism, communications and manufacturing sectors, internationally and in the Caribbean, to assist business leaders in navigating these uncharted waters.  The seminar will feature presentations by Prof. Avinash Persaud, Member of the UN Special Committee on the Global Financial Crisis; Dr. Auliana Poon, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tourism Intelligence International (Germany and Trinidad & Tobago), Dr. Andre Gordon, Managing Director of Technological Solutions Limited (Jamaica), Mr. Suresh Sookoo, Chief Executive Officer of RBTT Financial Group.

The presenters will offer their own insights into the roots of the financial and economic crisis, and the nature and intent of changes we may expect to see in global financial structures. They will discuss the effectiveness of policy responses of industrial nations, the implications for the Caribbean, and what it all means in terms of the choices facing business leaders in the Caribbean, and what it all means in terms of the choices facing business leaders in the Caribbean.  There are no maps to guide the way out of the current perils, but the collective wisdom of the speakers at the CCMF Senior Level Policy Seminar will better equip seminar participants to evaluate their choices realistically and to plan for more effective strategies.

Every year the CCMF organises a seminar for top Caribbean executives on a topic of current interest, with presentations by international experts and Caribbean business leaders.  The topic of the 2008 seminar, held in Trinidad in May 2008, was the implications for the Caribbean of the subprime mortgage crisis. Previous seminars dealt with risk management, financial stability, pensions and fund management.  The CCMF is an economic and financial policy and research institution organised and financed by Caribbean Central Banks and the University of the West Indies, with additional support by a number of regional financial institutions.

For further details, please call the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance at (868) 645-1174 or e-mail ccmf@sta.uwi.edu

You may also visit the seminar’s website at http://www.boj.org.jm/ccmf.