Financial Markets and Monetary Policy in Australia

About the Lecture

Join Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), for the upcoming Sir Leslie Melville public lecture – Financial markets and monetary policy in Australia.

In this lecture, Christopher will review some key features of Australia’s financial system. He will then discuss some of the implications of these for:

• the transmission of monetary policy
• financial stability
• forward guidance.

About the presenter

Christopher Kent

Christopher has been in his current role since December 2016 and is responsible for the oversight of the RBA’s operations in the domestic and global financial markets, including the management of Australia’s foreign reserves. He briefs the RBA Board on developments in financial markets and participates as the Bank’s representative on the BIS Markets Committee and the BIS Committee on Global Financial Stability. Christopher also chairs the Australian Foreign Exchange Committee and is the Chair of Note Printing Australia.