Grimes Attends Symposium on Global Financial System
William Grimes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently traveled to Guangzhou, China to participate in the “Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for China and the United States,” sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems and the China Development Research Foundation from June 6-8, 2018.
This high-level annual event brings together government officials, financial professionals, and scholars to discuss pressing issues affecting the financial systems of the United States and China, including economic developments and regulatory responses.
The 2018 symposium focused on China’s efforts to open up its financial sector, U.S.-China trade frictions, and digital payments systems, among other topics.
Grimes, who has taught at Boston University since 1996, is a leading scholar of East Asian financial regionalism. His 2008 book Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism won the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and received Honorable Mention for the 2009 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award. More recently, in conjunction with the Pardee School’s Global Economic Governance Initiative, he led a research project for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to develop a guide to best practices for regional liquidity arrangements.