Plenary Speakers

Keynote - David Pearce Lecture

Economic possibilities in the Anthropocene

            Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge

Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Professorial Research Fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester. He taught at the London School of Economics during 1971-1984 and moved to the University of Cambridge in 1985 as Professor of Economics, where he served as Chairman of the Faculty of Economics in 1997-2001. During 1989-92 he was also Professor of Economics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University; and during 1991-97 he was Chairman of the (Scientific Advisory) Board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm. Since 1999 he has been a Founder Member of the Management and Advisory Committee of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Kathmandu. In 1996 he helped to establish the journal Environment and Development Economics, published by Cambridge University Press, whose purpose has been not only to publish original research at the interface of poverty and the environmental-resource base, but also to provide an opportunity to scholars in developing countries to publish their findings in an international journal.
Professor Dasgupta's research interests have covered welfare and development economics, the economics of technological change, population, environmental and resource economics, the theory of games, the economics of undernutrition, and the economics of social capital. 

Plenary address 

Mr. Daniele Franco, Minister of Economy and Finance

Daniele Franco is the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance. Before his appointment in February 2021, he was Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy (May to December 2019), then Senior Deputy Governor (January 2020 to February 2021). Within Bank of Italy, he also worked in the Economic Research Department of Bank of Italy (1979-1994), as head of the Public Finance Division of the Economic Research Department of Bank of Italy (1997-2007), as head of Structural Economic Analysis Department (2007-2011) and as Managing Director of the Economic Research and International Relations (2011-2013). He also worjed as an Economic Advisor at the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (1994-1997) and he held the position of State Accountant General at Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (2013-2019). Over the course of his career, he has widely published and held lectures on public finance, social protection and income distribution, and has participated in committees and working groups at various national and international organizations.

Keynote  

How Should Climate Change Uncertainty Impact Social Valuation and Policy?

Prof. Lars Peter Hansen, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago

Lars Peter Hansen is a leading expert in economic dynamics who works at the forefront of economic thinking and modeling, drawing approaches from macroeconomics, finance, and statistics. He is a recipient of the 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Hansen has made fundamental advances in our understanding of how economic agents cope with changing and risky environments. He has contributed to the development of statistical methods designed to explore the interconnections between macroeconomic indicators and assets in financial markets. These methods are widely used in empirical research in financial economics today.

Keynote  

The Social Cost of Nutrient Pollution

Prof. Catherine L. Kling, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University 

Catherine L. Kling is a Tisch University Professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Faculty Director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She is past Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University where she also held the President's Chair in Environmental Economics. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015. Kling has published nearly 100 refereed journal articles and books chapters which have received over 8000 (google scholar) citations and is the editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. She specializes in the economic valuation of ecosystem services and integrated assessment modeling for water quality modeling. Her research program has received over $7 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the US Environmental Protection Agency, among others. Kling chairs the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences and has been a member of six National Research Council studies. She served as president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, has held editorial positions at ten economics journals, and has received seven awards from professional associations for her research. She is an elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resources Economists, the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, and a University Fellow at Resources for the Future. She served for ten years on EPA’s Science Advisory Board.