Keynote Speakers 

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Monday 7 April

President's Invited Lecture

The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers: evidence from academia

Rachel Griffith is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). She is an Editor of the Journal of Political Economy and is Program Chair of the 2025 World Econometric Society. Rachel won the Birgit Grodal award in 2014, was awarded a CBE in for services to economic policy in 2015 and was made a Dame for services to economic policy and education in 2021. Rachel's research has been published widely in the top international journals, and broadly considers issues related to the impacts of government policy on consumers, firms and the functioning of markets. Her specific interests relate to empirical work at the intersection of public economics and industrial organisation and in particular the retail food sector and nutrition.

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Tuesday 8 April

The Adam Smith Lecture

Civil society comes of age in economics: governance beyond markets and states

Wendy Carlin, CBE FBA is a professor of economics at University College London, expert advisor to the Office for Budget Responsibility, Research Fellow of CEPR and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She leads the international CORE Econ project to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum and is co-director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy at UCL. One research focus is macroeconomics (including a new book in 2024 Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and Inequality). Recently, she has published on inequality, economics education, and economic governance beyond state and market. In 2022 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2023 as Vice President of the International Economic Association.

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Wednesday 9 April

Policy Keynote Address

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