Event on registration. Tuesday, April 23, 2024 – 18:00 to twenty:00 (welcome from 17:15) – Amphimax 350, Rte de la Sorge 9, 1015 Lausanne
A fervent advocate of a practical strategy based mostly on experimentation and the sector, Esther Duflo has pioneered a brand new means of measuring the influence of anti-poverty insurance policies in low-income international locations, significantly within the fields of well being, schooling and the surroundings.
The College of Lausanne and the School of Enterprise and Economics (HEC Lausanne) are honored to welcome Esther Duflo, on April twenty third, for a convention for a convention the place she’s going to focus on the vital interplay between local weather change and poverty, and the pressing have to rethink social and financial insurance policies for a extra sustainable and equitable future.
What financial instruments and establishments are wanted to treatment the double injustice of local weather change and poverty? What position can innovation play in resolving these challenges, and the way can or not it’s inspired? Are world market forces allies or enemies within the combat towards local weather change and world poverty?
The convention will probably be adopted by a round-table dialogue throughout which these questions will probably be addressed with Esther Duflo and the personalities talked about beneath.
Moderator: Jean-Pierre Danthine, distinguished Analysis Scholar at IMD, Professor Emeritus at UNIL and EPFL.
Panelists
- Ms Özge Aydoğan, Director of the SDG Lab, UN in Geneva
- Mr. Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the ICRC (Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross) and Professor of Improvement Economics on the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
- Mr. Ralph Ossa, Chief Economist and Director of the Financial Analysis and Statistics Division on the WTO (World Commerce Group)
Grasp of Ceremonies: Quentin Gallea, E4S researcher, lecturer and former doctoral scholar at HEC Lausanne.
The occasion will probably be launched by Frédéric Herman, Rector of UNIL, and Marianne Schmid Mast, Dean of the School of Enterprise and Economics. It’s organized by the Division of Economics at HEC Lausanne, as a part of its Walras Pareto lecture sequence.
Registration required. Restricted locations
English language, simultaneous French translation on request upon registration.
