ECB International Women’s Day 2025
Closing the gender gap in financial literacy
Friday, 7 March 2025
Frankfurt am Main
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Accelerate Action,” focusing on strategies designed to promote women’s advancement.
In conversation, President Lagarde and panellists will discuss the importance of financial literacy for central banks and banking supervision authorities and its impact on monetary policy transmission. They will focus on closing the gender gap and the potential for collaboration.
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Programme
- 10:30
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Opening remarks
Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank
- 10:40
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In conversation
- Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank
- Claudia Buch, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank
- Klaas Knot, President of De Nederlandsche Bank
- Annamaria Lusardi, Professor at Stanford University
- Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
- Fabio Panetta, Governor of the Banca d'Italia
- 11:40
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Questions & answers and open forum
- 11:55
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Closing remarks & five commitments
The panellists and the participating Governors agreed to deliver on the following five commitments:
- Be a voice for change and keep raising awareness in the respective countries, institutions and communities.
- Create a central bank financial literacy network focusing on promoting financial literacy, addressing the gender gap and sharing best practices and resources for collective action.
- Include national competent authorities in the network, leveraging their consumer protection function.
- Develop a comprehensive and harmonised dataset across Europe, extend data collection to countries that lack these data and create standardised measures for financial literacy.
- Enhance financial literacy efforts in three key teachable moments of a person’s life: (i) early education, (ii) taking out a major loan (e.g. buying a house or starting a business), and (iii) building a pension.
- 12:00
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End of the event
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