On Wednesday, 16 November 2022, professor Rosa Lastra, Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, will hold her keynote in the annual Witteveen Lecture series entitled 'CBDCs: In Defence of Public Digital Money'.
- Speaker
- Date
- Wednesday 16 Nov 2022, 13:00 - 15:00
- Type
- Lecture
- Room
- Lecture Room 0.01
- Building
- Sanders Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
- More information
For more information about the Witteveen series, please visit the Witteveen page.
Digitalisation has reached the shores of central banking. The trichotomy of cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and CBDCs is challenging established notions of money and monetary sovereignty, and reviving the old debate between state theory of money and societal or market theory of money.
Money is changing nationally and internationally. But money remains a public good. While at the national level this justifies the public ordering of the monetary and payment system, at the international level, it will also require a normative framework. The lecture will also explore how traditional legal categories such as legal tender are adapting to the digital space.
Programme
| 13:00-13:05 | Introduction of the speaker Ivo Arnold |
| 13:05-13:45 | Keynote speech by Professor Rosa Lastra |
| 13:45-14:30 | Panel discussion and Q&A |
| 14:30-15:00 | Social drinks |
About Rosa Lastra
Rosa María Lastra is the Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.
She is a Research Associate of the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and member of: the Monetary Committee of the International Law Association, the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, the European Banking Institute, the European Law Institute, the Financial Market Law Committee Sovereign Debt Scoping Forum, and P.R.I.M.E. Finance Panel of Experts.
Lastra has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations (UNCTAD), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the UK House of Lords and the European Parliament (of the expert panel on monetary affairs since 2015 and of the expert panel on Banking Union (Resolution) since 2016).
She is the principal investigator in a research project on the Legal and Economic Conceptions of Money funded by an ESRC/NIESR award in May 2019.
