Mandeville Lecture 2012 by Jean-Claude Trichet
“Towards a new economic European Governance.”
The 18th Mandeville Lecture will be held on 6 June 2012 by Dr Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the
European Central Bank from 2003 to 2011.
The honorary lecture has been an initiative of the Bernard Mandeville Foundation since 1988 when it was founded by Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Rotterdam business community (Club Rotterdam) and Erasmus Trust Fund.
Every year a person who has performed outstanding services to society is invited to deliver a lecture and share his ideas with a wide audience. The lecture is regarded as the equivalent of an honorary doctorate.
The lecture is named after the committed thinker Bernard Mandeville who was born in Rotterdam.
Former laureates include Trichet’s predecessor as ECB president Wim Duisenberg (The Euro and the Process of European Integration, 1998) and the French politician Bernard Kouchner, founder of Médecins sans Frontières (Cross-border humanitarian aid, 2002). Last year Joop van den Ende was the laureate (Patronage in the Netherlands).
Admission to the lecture and honorary ceremony is free. Please register before 25 May 2012.
A Master Class with Dr Trichet for a select group of students and an Expert meeting on the future of banking for bankers and economists will precede the ceremony. These events are by special invitation only.
