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Helmut Schlesinger

 

 

 

 

Advisor to IDEAglobal Group, Parent Company of IDEAcarbon

Biography

Professor Schlesinger joined IDEAglobal's advisory board in May 1995. He was formerly the president of the Deutsche Bundesbank and was chairman of the Central Bank Council from 1991 to 1993. Prior to that, Professor Schlesinger served in a variety of positions, including head of the research and statistics department, member of the board, and deputy president of the Deutsche Bundesbank. He also served as deputy chairman of the Central Bank Council, as well as a researcher at the IFO Institute for Economic Research. Professor Schlesinger received a doctorate in economics from the University of Munich. He was a board member at the Bank for International Settlements, a member of the supervisory board of Metro, vice chairman of Foundation Finance, and an economic advisor to the German finance ministry.

Relevant Media Coverage

• Helmut Schlesinger. “Stable money not only needs a stability-oriented policy". Börsen-Zeitung. 1 February 1992.

• Helmut Schlesinger. “In formulating a monetary target in the form of a fixed range". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 9 March 1992.

• Helmut Schlesinger. “Germany offers, so to speak, a good 'mother earth' for an anti-inflation money policy in Europe.” The Times. 17 March 1992.

• Helmut Schlesinger. “International cooperation, aided by financial and geo-political measures".  Speech in Paris. 28 August 1987.

Relevant Speaking Engagements

• IDEAglobal Policy seminar, London - 1999

• IDEAglobal Future stock seminar, Hong Kong - 1996

• Current Conditions of German Monetary Policy and the steps towards EMU - February 1993

• The Monetary Policy Situation in the United Germany - July 1993

• Current Question of Monetary and Currency Policy - July 1993

• The issue of the role of the central bank in achieving price stability - 1984 

• Black Wednesday and the rebirth of the British Economy, symposium Turning point 

Relevant Publications

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “German and British Monetary Policy in the Age of Maastricht. What have we learned in the ten years since Black Wednesday?” London School of Economics, Financial Markets Group, Special Paper No.. 147, London 2002.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “From the beginning ... Memoirs of a witness ", in: 100 Community diagnosis of the German economics research institutes, Hamburg Institute of World Economic Archive, 2000, p. 21-29.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “European Monetary Restructuring and Its Implications for Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Policies”, "Journal of Asian Economics”. Volume 3, Number 1, Greenwich, London, 1992, p. 111-119.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “EC summit: The dawn of a new European monetary order. Fast and hard test. The monetary union can only work if it is supported by a common economic policy”, Business Week. 45.Jg. 1991, No. 50, p. 88-91.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “The Road to European Economic and Monetary Union, International Economics”. Vol 26 1991 no. 4, p. 151-158.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “The D-Mark in East and West, in: Journal of the whole credit system” 43.Jg. 1990, h.24, p. 1204-1230.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “ Delors Plan: Le Plus Compliqué remains a Faire, Politique International” No. 45, Paris 1989, p. 7-21.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “Regionalism and Global Integration, Speaking of Japan”, Japan 1989, Vol 10, No. 105.

• Duwendag (ed.), money - and monetary policy in transition, Baden-Baden” 1983, p. 59-83.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “The Setting of Monetary Objectives in Germany, in: P. Meek (Ed.), Central Bank Views on Monetary Targeting, Papers presented at a conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York” May 1982, New York 1983, p. 6-17.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “Global management of the economy versus sectorally and regionally differentiated economic policy, in: D. Duwendag and H. Siebert (ed.), Politics and Market, Economic Problems of the 80s, Hans-Karl Schneider's 60th Geburtstag gewidmet, Stuttgart and New York”. 1980, p. 39-51.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “The monetary policy of the Deutsche Bundesbank, 1967-1977, in: Kredit und Kapital, 11 Year (1978), S. 3-29, reprinted in DBSimmert (ed.), Economic policy - controversial, Cologne 1980, p. 369-390, and in W. and D. Honest

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “The distribution of the assets in the Federal Republic of Germany - financial assets, real assets - in: The Long-term credit”, 1973, No. 5, pp 123-129.

• Schlesinger, Helmut. “Value and limitations of macroeconomic forecasts, in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv”, Vol 51, 1967, p. 401-416.

Professional Affiliations

• Advisor, IDEAglobal - 1995 - current

• Member, Federal Finance Panel - 2008-09

• Member, Supervisory Board of Kaufhof Holding AG and Metro AG - 1994-2002

• Advisor, Government and Central Bank of Indonesia – 1998

• President, Alumni Clubs d. Munich Economists - 1994-2003

• Member, Board of BHF-Bank - 1994-98

• Member, Board of the BIS, Basel - 1991-99

• Member, Board of the Liko-Bank - until 1991

• President, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gesellschaft - 1990-94

• Member, Board of DG Bank - 1980-1991