The World Financial Crisis: How Did it Happen?

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, The Sydney Institute held an early evening seminar to discuss the causes of the Global Financial Crisis then unfolding. The speakers were Mark Johnson, a former Chairman of Macquarie Bank, Dr John Edwards, Chief Economist with HSBC and Dr Timo Henckel, a Research Fellow with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian National University. The function attracted a capacity audience and The Sydney Institute announced further discussion seminars on the GFC would be organised throughout 2009.