The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.