Input Talk and Discussion: Monetary Sovereignty - Addressing the Challenges of a Digitalized and Multipolar World

About the Speaker:
Ulrich Bindseil is a German economist and central banking expert. He served as Director General for Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank from November 2019 until 2025, after previously leading the Directorate General for Market Operations and heading the ECB’s Risk Management Division. He began his career in central banking in 1994 at the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Monetary Institute, later joining the ECB in 1998. Bindseil has also been a member of key international committees, including those at the Bank for International Settlements. An honorary professor at Technical University of Berlin, he has published widely on central banking topics, including Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System (2014), Central Banking before 1800 – A Rehabilitation (2019), and Introduction to Central Banking (2022). Bindseil holds a PhD in economics from the University of Saarbrücken.

Discussants:

Larissa de Lima is a Senior Fellow at the Oliver Wyman Forum, where she co-leads the Future of Money initiative and directs research on financial innovation, including central bank digital currencies and the future of financial systems. She has previously led research on data ecosystems and worked as a consultant advising financial services clients on technological and regulatory change. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jay Pocklington is Director of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, a global network supporting young economists and critical thinkers. He joined INET after helping organize early YSI programs and holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in economics from Freie Universität Berlin, where he also taught and conducted research. His work focuses on fostering inclusive, diverse conversations in economics and building networks of scholars pursuing new economic ideas

About this talk:
This talk was part of the 6th Annual --Money View Symposium, hosted by YSI on 27-28 February, 2026. The Symposium showcased the work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the money view, ranging from economists to lawyers, politicians and social scientists at large.

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Mark Swilling is a Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development and Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is a leading scholar in sustainability transitions, sustainable cities, and transdisciplinary research methodologies, and has published widely on these topics. He has held visiting professorships at institutions such as Utrecht University, the University of Sheffield, and Georgetown University, and was the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Environmental Scholar at Yale University in 2018.

Steffen Murau is a political economist specializing in international money and finance. He has served as a postdoctoral fellow and researcher at institutions including the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and the City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC). Murau’s research focuses on monetary theory, the international monetary system, and macro-financial governance, and he leads projects on monetary architecture and fiscal integration at the Global Climate Forum.

Friederike Reimer is a doctoral researcher at the Global Climate Forum, where she works on topics at the intersection of macro-finance and sustainable economic systems, including balance sheet frameworks and financial governance. She is an alumna of the European Post-Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies (EPOG) and engages with research on macro-financial governance and related issues.

About this talk:
This talk was part of the 6th Annual --Money View Symposium, hosted by YSI on 27-28 February, 2026. The Symposium showcased the work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the money view, ranging from economists to lawyers, politicians and social scientists at large.

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About the Panelists:

Iñaki Aldasoro is Principal Economist in the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements, focusing on financial stability policy. He joined the BIS in 2016 after serving as a consultant to the European Systemic Risk Board. Earlier in his career, he held roles at the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Bruegel, and in economic consulting in Argentina.

Izabella Kaminska is a senior editor for POLITICO. Prior to working for POLITICO, Izabella was editor of the Financial Times’ Alphaville service and the founder editor of The Blind Spot. Izabella spent the first part of her career working at CNBC and Reuters where she gained expertise in central banking, finance and markets.

Brendan Greeley is a PhD student at Princeton University in the Department of History specializing in the history of money and finance, particularly in the early-modern Atlantic world. He was the US economics editor at the Financial Times, and continues to write a regular column there. Before that, he was a staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and The Economist, as well as an anchor and correspondent for Bloomberg TV.

About this talk:
This talk was part of the 6th Annual --Money View Symposium, hosted by YSI on 27-28 February, 2026. The Symposium showcased the work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the money view, ranging from economists to lawyers, politicians and social scientists at large.

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About Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School's Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her work spans comparative law and corporate governance, law and finance, and law and development. Her most recent book is "The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It" (2025), Yale University Press.

Discussant: Maria Schweinberger
Maria C. Schweinberge is a capital markets and restructuring attorney who advises underwriters, sponsors, and issuers on debt, equity, and complex financial transactions across the EMEA region. Her work focuses on the intersection of public and private interests in financial markets, including sovereign debt restructurings and systemic risk, the subject of her Ph.D. on the too-big-to-fail problem.

About this talk:
This talk was part of the 6th Annual --Money View Symposium, hosted by YSI on 27-28 February, 2026. The Symposium showcased the work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the money view, ranging from economists to lawyers, politicians and social scientists at large.

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About Perry Mehrling
Over the past decades, Perry Mehrling has built on the British and American central banking schools to developed what he calls the ‘money view’. While economics and finance have oddly abstracted from the concept of money in order to focus on other problems, this minority view focusses on money and credit for what it is: a set of interlocking promises to pay and how these promises get settled. The money view therefore is in a unique position to restart a conversation between economics and finance, as well as theory and practice.

Discussants:

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. Beckert’s research and teaching center on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and global dimensions.
Beckert is co-chair of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University , co-chair of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) and co-editor of a series of books at Princeton University Press on “America in the World.”

Yakov Feygin is an economic historian and policy analyst at the Center for Public Enterprise and the Jain Family Institute. Formerly associate director of the Future of Capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute, he has written for Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Phenomenal World, and Noema.

About this talk:
This talk was part of the 6th Annual --Money View Symposium, hosted by YSI on 27-28 February, 2026. The Symposium showcased the work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the money view, ranging from economists to lawyers, politicians and social scientists at large.

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This is part of Rethinking Capitalism and Economic Orders, a virtual series for anyone interested in reconnecting economic thought with the real worlds it sought to describe, reform, or transform. Together, we’ll explore capitalism not just as an economic system, but as a lived experience, a political project, and an ideological battleground. Join the next session live!

The series is hosted by YSI's working groups on East Asia and on History of Economic Thought, and organized by Sattwick Dey Biswas and Kosal Nith.

About the speaker: David McNally is a radical socialist activist and award-winning scholar. Authoring over 60 research manuscripts, eight books, and countless public lectures and articles, he currently holds the Cullen Distinguished Professorship of History & Business at the University of Houston, after moving from Toronto, where he taught and organized at York University for over thirty years.

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