BCC Annual Conference

Annually, the Bilateral Assistance and Capacity Building for ​Central Banks (BCC) programme organizes an international conference in Geneva.  

The conferences are aimed at representatives of the partner central banks and are also open to other participants, including the private sector, academia and international institutions. 

The topic of the conference is chosen each year in consultation with the BCC scientific committee composed of eminent experts, the beneficiary countries, and SECO. 

The 2025 BCC Conference will focus on "Challenges from Higher Uncertainty".

The world economy is faced with a challenge in the form of higher uncertainty. The Covid pandemic and Ukraine war have translated into economic shocks that combine elements of both standard supply and demand shocks. Assessing the impact of unusual shocks, especially in real time, is a delicate exercise to policymakers. In addition to this higher macroeconomic uncertainty, policy uncertainty has substantially risen. The resumption of trade wars is taking place with limited long-term visibility, with measures being imposed or withdrawn in an opaque way. A particular element of the current situation is that uncertainty is coming to a large extent from the United States, while usually this central country had offered a safe haven of predictability in times of turmoil.

Programme

The programme of the 2025 BCC Conference on "Challenges from Higher Uncertainty" is available on the BCC programme website.

Registration

Registration required by email: bcc@graduateinstitute.ch

IMPORTANT: Conference under Chatham House Rule - information can be used; but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

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Conference under Chatham House Rule - information can be used; but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.