The 9th Annual Research Conference (ARC 2025) titled Economic and Financial Integration in a Stormy and Fragmenting World, will be held on 19–20 June 2025. The National Bank of Ukraine, together with Narodowy Bank Polski, is organizing the event for the ninth year running, except for the forced break in 2022. This year, the conference is organized with the support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GiZ) and the International Monetary Fund.
The high-level event will as usual bring together the international expert community. This year, the conference will focus on the challenges facing central banks due to the war in Ukraine and the geopolitical and geoeconomic fragmentation of the world.
The ARC 2025 will take place in a hybrid format over two days. On the first day, high-level discussion panels will be held in an offline format with video broadcast. On the second day, research sessions and a practical session will take place in a hybrid format (online and offline).
Top representatives of central banks, international financial institutions, and leading global universities are expected to speak at the event. Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, will be the keynote speaker on the first day of the conference (online), while Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will deliver a keynote speech on the second day.
The first day of the event will focus on discussing the evolving landscape of global economic and financial integration in an era of mounting uncertainty. Three panel discussions will explore:
- EU Enlargement Implications for Financial Sector: Peer Learning for a Better Future
- Balancing Single Market Principles with Industrial Polices, and Economic Security System
- Financial Markets as Engines of Europe’s Development, Competitiveness, and Growth.
On the second day of the conference, the research panels will present studies on economic and institutional resilience to geopolitical shifts, assessments of fragmentation and its implications, and the theoretical foundations of a new geoeconomic geometry of the world.
A parallel practical session on the second day will discuss practical aspects of reforming Ukraine’s financial sector on its path to EU integration.
The discussions will be joined by Ukrainian and foreign experts, scholars, professors, and students who actively contribute to the discussion of the NBU’s analytical and research products, and who regularly participate in the research activities of the Ukrainian central bank.
We invite everyone to join the conference online.
The event will be broadcast on the zoom platform.
Follow the link to register. The conference’s working language is English.
The first day of the conference will be broadcast in English with simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian. Given the specifics of such sessions and the importance of preserving the subtleties of the authors’ presentations, the second day of the conference, which includes research sessions, will be broadcast without simultaneous interpretation.
Information about the program of the event and its speakers is available here.