Visiting Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of NY and Senior Scholar at LIS. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He was Senior Economist in the Research Department of the World Bank for almost 20 years and was Senior Advisor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2003-2005). He has taught at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007).
She is Professor of Economics and Researcher at the Center for Population Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on labour economics, demography and health in the US, from a long-term economic-historical perspective. Her work analyses the implications of the spread of modern contraception on motherhood, career decisions and pay. She has a special interest in analysing «Great Society» programmes in the short and long term and the creation of a Micro Electronic Database (LIFE-M), which allows economic growth and geographic mobility to be studied, as well as family formation throughout the twentieth century.
A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.
Professor of Economics and holder of the Ford Chair at MIT. He is also Co-Director of the NBER Labor Studies Programme, the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future and the experimental JPAL Work of the Future Initiative. His research explores the impacts of the technological revolution and globalisation on the labour market, specifically job polarization, demands and skills, income levels and inequalities, and electoral outcomes. He has received several awards for his academic studies – the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019 – and also for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. Most recently, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his contribution to «transforming our perception of how globalisation and the technological revolution are impacting the jobs and wage prospects of American workers.« In 2017, Bloomberg recognised him as one of the 50 people who have defined the world of business on a global scale. And in 2019, the Economist magazine labelled him «The academic voice of the American worker». Later that year, and with (at least) equal justification, he was dubbed the «Twerpy MIT Economist» by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight, in a segment on automation and employment.
Professor of Finance and holder of the Max L. Heine Chair at New York University's Stern School of Business. He was named one of the «25 most promising economists under 45» by the IMF in 2014. He won the Bernácer Prize in 2013 for the best European economist under 40, the Michael Brennan & BlackRock Prize in 2010, the Prize for the Best Young French Economist in 2009 and the Brattle Prize for the best article on Corporate Finance in 2008. He has studied various topics in the fields of macroeconomics and finance: systemic risk and the financial crisis, the dynamics of corporate investment and household debt, innovation and financial regulation and the Eurozone crisis. His latest book «The Great Reversal» (Harvard Press, 2019) focuses on the growing market power of large companies. He serves as Academic Consultant for the Financial Stability Board and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. He was a Consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a member of the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority of the Banque de France between 2014 and 2019 and Senior Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Finance from 2012-2013.
Professor at University College London, where she directed and founded the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, she is considered one of today's most influential economists.
She advises decision-makers around the world on sustainable, data-based economic growth.
She has written various books, such as «The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy», «The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths», and, most recently, «Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism» (January 2021).
He has been Professor of Economics at Harvard University since 1992 and specialises in cities and urban planning.
For a decade, he directed the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, both at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He is the author of the bestseller «The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier», in which he explains the benefits of urban life.
American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. He is also the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he is also a professor at the Hoover Institute and a visiting fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct professor at Bocconi University in Milan and an honorary fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University.
He is a senior advisor to Jasper Ridge Partners and General Atlantic Partners. He co-chairs the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute and was chairman of the Independent Commission on Growth and Development (2006-2010).
He was Dean of Stanford Business School (1990-1999) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University (1984-1990).
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 for his work in microeconometrics, he is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and Director of its Center for the Economics of Human Development.
He has dedicated his career to understanding the origins of the main social and economic problems linked to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, training and regulating qualifications, as well as designing and evaluating alternative strategies for dealing with these challenges.
Dean and Full Professor at the Arison School of Business at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. He holds a degree in Computer Science and a PhD from Tel Aviv University, where he also earned an MBA. His research focuses on the theory of the multinational corporation, technological innovation, diversification and growth patterns of high-tech companies and has been published in leading journals on strategy, management, international business and innovation.
Before joining Reichman University, he was a tenured faculty member at Hebrew University's School of Business Administration, where he also served as Vice Dean, Director of the Asper Centre for Entrepreneurship, Director of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department and Academic Director of the EMBA program.
He is a visiting professor at the Alliance Manchester School of Business and has also taught at institutions such as New York University.
He is Co-founder of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the Hebrew University and of the Israel Strategy Conference (ISC).
