The 2010 Summit was held on 29 and 30 April and examined the roots of the near-meltdown of the financial system and delineated a possible new global financial architecture to prevent a recurrence.
The Munich Economic Summit is a joint initiative of the BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt and the CESifo Group Munich —the latter itself a joint initiative of the University of Munich and the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research—in partnership with The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal Europe and Handelsblatt.