Christina Skinner is a legal and financial scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, a former Bank of England official, and recently stepped down from her role as deputy assistant secretary in the FSOC office at the Treasury. Christina returns to the program to discuss her work with FSOC, the relationship between economic growth and financial stability, AI and financial regulation, central bank independence, the importance of democratic accountability, and much more.
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Recorded on September 10th, 2026
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:33 - Financial Stability Oversight Council
00:21:32 - Priority Workstreams
00:28:29 - AI and Financial Stability
00:34:59 - Real-World Experience and Teaching
00:40:44 - Central Bank Independence 2.0
00:56:07 - Outro