Keynote Speakers 

Monday 7 April

President's Invited Lecture

She is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and a Research Fellow of CEPR. 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. She also served as Deputy Chair of the Economics sub-Panel of the Research Excellence Framework. Currently, she has her second ERC Advanced Grant to study behavior of consumers and firms to see how government policy will impact food markets.

Tuesday 8 April

The Adam Smith Lecture

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.

Wednesday 9 April

Policy Keynote Address