The Peterson Institute and Brussels-based think tank Bruegel hosted the conference "The Euro at 10" on October 10, 2008. Speakers and panelists explored questions centered on how the current global financial crisis will affect the relative positions of the euro and the dollar as global currencies. Speakers included Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Joaquin Almunia, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Kristin Forbes, Philippe Martin, Linda Goldberg, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Andre Sapir, Adam S. Posen, Christian Noyer, C. Randall Henning, Gyorgy Szapary, Mohsin Khan, Maria Celina Berardinelli Arraes, Thomas Mayer, Leszek Balcerowicz, C. Fred Bergsten, Servaas Deroose, Erkki Liikanen, and Lawrence Summers.