SPEAKERS
Prof. Roel Beetsma
University of Amsterdam
Roel Beetsma is a professor at the University of Amsterdam, he is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business and Chairman of the Department of Economics and Econometrics. He is a member of the European Fiscal Board. Prior visiting positions include the University of California at Berkeley, the University of British Columbia, and DELTA (Paris). He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, CESifo in Munich, the Tinbergen Institute and the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar). He is also an International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute of World Economics.
Roel has published in the areas of Macroeconomics and International Economics in top journals such as the American Economic Journal Economic Policy, Journal of International Money and Finance, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Economics, among others.
Roel holds a Ph.D from CentER, Tilburg University.
Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano
London School of Economics and Political Science
Gianmarco Ottaviano is professor of economics at the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics and Political Science, honorary professor of economics at the University of Bologna, as well as the Director of the Trade Program at the Center for Economic Performance (LSE).
He is the author of ground-breaking studies in economic geography, international trade, migration, and growth, that have been published in top journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Theory, and the Economic Journal, among others.
Gianmarco has a Ph.D from the Université Catholique de Louvain.