ifo Annual Meeting 2020
Online
COVID-19 and the Economy – How Threatened is Germany’s Prosperity?
The highly infectious lung disease COVID-19 has achieved rapid, uncontrolled spread worldwide. To fight the pandemic and avoid overstretching health care capacity, the federal and state governments in Germany have severely restricted economic and social life. Many companies have cut back or stopped production due to interrupted supply chains. It is already becoming evident that the economic and social costs of COVID-19 are enormous. Can we make a success of restarting? What impact will the COVID-19 crisis have on the German economy? Can there be a return to normal in the near future? What have we learned from the crisis?
Joe Kaeser, Chairman of the Managing Board of the Siemens AG, Dr. Elga Bartsch, Head of Macro Research, Blackrock, and Sabine Herold, Managing partner, DELO, gave us assessments of these questions. Together with ifo President Clemens Fuest they discussed the topic “COVID-19 and the Economy – How Threatened is Germany’s Prosperity?”.
ifo Annual Meeting 2020
ifo Schnelldienst, 2020, 73, Nr. 07, 89
Joe Kaeser, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Siemens AG
Sabine Herold, Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin, DELO Industrie Klebstoffe
Dr. Cornelia Geißler, Bereichsleitung Kommunikation, ifo Institut und Joe Kaeser, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Siemens AG
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest, Präsident des ifo Instituts
Programm
| 10:00 a.m. | Welcome Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest President of the ifo Institute |
| 10:15 a.m. | Panel discussion Joe Kaeser Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG Dr. Elga Bartsch Head of Macro Research, Blackrock Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest President of the ifo Institute Sabine Herold Managing partner, DELO Chair: Dr. Cornelia Geißler, ifo Institute |
| 12:00 p.m. | Award ceremony for ifo employees |
General Meeting and the Meeting of the Board of Trustees
The General Meeting forms the non-public part of the 2020 annual meeting and takes place from 2:00 p.m. The ifo Annual Report 2019 will be presented in this context. The Meeting of the Board of Trustees is canceled this year.
Video Documentation
Recordings will be available a few days later on demand in the Media Center.
