5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics

The 5^th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics (review of previous years here) will once again bring together the world's leading academics to present and discuss the latest cutting-edge research at the intersection of economics and geopolitics. 
 
This year the conference will take place in Berlin in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office.

The conference will be opened with a policy keynote by Johann Wadephul, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs followed by a high-level panel on “Security, Freedom and Prosperity – Geoeconomics in the Age of Uncertainty” with

• Johann Wadephul, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs,
• Susanne Wiegand, Supervisory Board Member of Brenntag SE, CSG N.V. and Quantum-Systems GmbH, and DGAP Board Member
• Moritz Schularick, President of the Kiel Institute
• Moderated by Sarah Kelly, TV News Anchor & Journalist 

The academic keynote speakers will be

• Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford) 
• Carmen Reinhart (Harvard and CEPR)

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Berkeley and CEPR), former Chief Economist of the IMF, will receive this year’s Bernhard Harms Prize and deliver the prize lecture, preceded by a laudatio from Philip Lane (Member of the Executive Board and Chief Economist of the ECB and CEPR).

The list of confirmed speakers includes leading economists such as Laura Alfaro (Harvard, IDB and CEPR), Fernando Broner (Barcelona), Giancarlo Corsetti (EUI and CEPR), Meredith Crowley (Cambridge and CEPR),  Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA), Thiemo Fetzer (Warwick and CEPR), Doireann Fitzgerald (Minneapolis Fed), Kalina Manova (UCL and CEPR), Dimitry Mukhin (LSE and CEPR), Friederike Niepmann (Federal Reserve Board and CEPR), Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi and CEPR), Bruno Pellegrino (Columbia), Andrea Presbitero (IMF and CEPR), Steve Redding (Stanford and CEPR), Hillary Stein (Boston Fed), and many others.

Please find the full program here. The program is updated regularly, so please check back for the latest version.

PROGRAM 

The event is further supported by the CEPR RPN Geoeconomics & Security, the ReCIPE initiative, Sciences Po, the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

If you would like to attend the conference as a guest, please contact berlin@kielinstitut.de