The Anika Foundation and Australian Business Economists (ABE) are pleased to present a lunch in support of the Anika Foundation, with a briefing by Glenn Stevens, Governor Reserve Bank of Australia - Issues in Economic Policy.

Details:

• Time: 12:15 for 12:30 pm (Concludes 2:00 pm)
• Venue: Grand Ballroom,The Westin Sydney, No 1 Martin Place, Sydney
• Donation: $2250 tables of ten guests each, $225 individual seats
• Lunch includes two courses and beverages

The Governor has agreed to take questions from the floor.
There will be no live broadcast of this function.
Macquarie is hosting this lunch by way of generous support for The Anika Foundation.

Registration:

Click here to book on-line

Email: info@abe.org.au

Phone: 0419 256 339 

Fax: 9365 6067

Glenn Stevens is Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Mr Stevens is a graduate of the University of Sydney, and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He joined the Bank’s Research Department in 1980, and held various senior positions in the 1990s, including heading the Economic Analysis and International Departments. From 1996 to 2001, he was Assistant Governor (Economic), responsible for overseeing economic and policy advice to the Governor and Board of the RBA. He was appointed Deputy Governor, and member of the Board, of the RBA in December 2001. His appointment as Governor was effective 18 September 2006 and was recently extended through 2016. Mr Stevens is Chairman of the Reserve Bank Board and Payments System Board, and Chairman of the Council of Financial Regulators. He is one of two Australian representatives on the Financial Stability Board, an international body to promote financial stability. In the charitable sphere, Mr Stevens is Chairman of the Financial Markets Foundation for Children and a Director of The Anika Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a member of the Advisory Boards of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne and the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales.

The Anika Foundation was established in 2005 to raise funds for the purpose of supporting research into adolescent depression and suicide, which have become amongst the most significant (but least well considered) medical and social problems of our time.