Fifth Nunn School Symposium: The Dollar’s Challenged Role in the World

Since the end of the Second World War the US dollar has played a central role in the global economy. During the 21st century the US government has extensively leveraged the associated importance of the US financial system to secure foreign policy objectives. That activity and concerns about US fiscal responsibility have recently prompted other governments and non-state actors to seek alternatives to the dollar and to the US financial system. This half-day symposium will explore how the US has used the dollar and the US financial system as a source of power and assess the challenges to the continued centrality of the dollar and the US financial system and consider what that means for US power.

12:00 Lunch and welcome

• Alasdair Young, Professor and Neal Family Chair, Sam Nunn School of
  International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
  

12:30 Leveraging the dollar for foreign policy ends

• Brian Grant, Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance
  Operations and Global Head of Sanctions Compliance at MUFG
  
• Peter Harrell, Nonresident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International
  Peace. He was Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council from 2021 to 2022
  
• Carla Norrlof, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a non-
  resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council.
  
• Moderated by: Diane Alleva Caceres, Lecturer, Sam Nunn School of International
  Affairs & Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology and CEO,
  Market Access International

1:45 Break
2:00 Threats to the dollar’s dominance

• Zongyuan Zoe Liu,  Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
  
• Glen Sarvady, Managing Principal of payments strategy firm 154 Advisors
  
• Mark Sobel, US chair of OMFIF and former deputy assistant secretary forInternational Monetary and Financial Policy at the US Treasury
  
• Moderated by: Carly Potz-Nielsen, Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology

With financial support from the Neal Family Endowment and the Diplomats-in-Residence Program supported by the Arthur Blank Family Foundation.

Co-sponsored by the Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education and Research and the Atlanta Council on International Relations.

3:15 Close

(Lunch Provided)

Registration is Required for this Event