CBBH Organizes International Conference "20 Years of Stability"

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the Central Bank of BiH (CBBH) is organizing an international conference titled "20 Years of Stability", which will be held on Friday, September 22, 2017, in Sarajevo, reports Patria News Agency.

The attendance at the conference has been confirmed by top domestic and international officials, governors and other representatives of central banks from Europe and the region, as well as policymakers and experts from the European Union and international financial institutions.

The governor of the CBBH, Senad Softić, will greet the attendees with an appropriate speech, and introductory addresses will be given by the member of the Presidency of BiH, Mladen Ivanić, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of BiH, Denis Zvizdić, the member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, Benoit Coeuré, and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to BiH and EU Special Representative, Ambassador Lars-Gunnar Wigemark.

The conference is structured into three sessions. Within the first session, former governors and the current governor of the CBBH will reflect on the past 20 years of the CBBH. Special addresses at the beginning of this session will be given by Nadeem Ilahi, Head of the International Monetary Fund Mission for BiH, and Linda van Gelder, World Bank Director for the Western Balkans.

The second session will be dedicated to new challenges for central banks in the process of joining the European Union, while the topic of the third session relates to key macroeconomic aspects in the process of joining the European Union. The leaders of the central banks of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, as well as high-ranking representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission will participate in these two sessions.

During the conference, Governor Softić will promote a monograph published on the occasion of the anniversary of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The day of the conference is also the last day of the numismatic exhibition titled "On the Trail of Money", which has been on display at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo since August 11, 2017.