WATCH: 'The Digital Euro in a Fragmenting World: Ensuring Europe’s Resilience and Autonomy in Payments'

The lecture is a part of the SSE Riga "Geopolitics Unscripted" series.

Opening remarks come from Kata Fredheim, Vice President of SSE Riga, and the Governor of Latvijas Banka, Mārtiņš Kazāks.

Piero Cipollone has been a member of the Executive Board of the ECB since 1 November 2023. He is responsible for international and European relations, market infrastructure and payments, and banknotes.

He chairs the Eurosystem (formed by the ECB and the national central banks of the euro area) High-Level Task Force on the Digital Euro, the Euro Retail Payments Board, and the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures. Before joining the ECB, Cipollone was Deputy Governor of Banca d'Italia.