The Euro 50 Group, sometimes Euro50, is a group of individuals that organizes non-public meetings to debate European economic and financial policy themes, with an emphasis on monetary policy and the

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. It is led by

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, who created it in 1999 with the help of

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The Euro 50 Group's activity is not public, and the group does not maintain a website. It organizes several meetings every year in locations around Europe and in

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, the latter on the occasion of Spring meetings and Annual Meetings of the

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and

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. Participants to Euro 50 Group meetings include "high level economists, bankers and officials from different countries." The Euro 50 Group meetings are occasionally organized in partnership with other

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. Such partners have included the

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, the

Centre for International Governance Innovation The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI, pronounced "see-jee") is an independent, non-partisan think tank on global governance. CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral g ...

, the

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, and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee. As of the late 2010s, the Euro 50 Group was supported by France's

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via a nonprofit entity, the . Leading public policy officials who have participated in Euro 50 Group meetings have included

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, and

François Villeroy de Galhau François Villeroy de Galhau (; born 24 February 1959) is a French senior civil servant and banker who has served as Governor of the Bank of France and ''ex officio'' President of the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority sinc ...

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