Christiane Baumeister is the Lambert Family Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. She is an empirical macroeconomist who has worked extensively on forecasting the real price of oil, disentangling the determinants of oil price fluctuations, and quantifying the effects of oil price shocks on the macroeconomy. Much of her recent work is concerned with Bayesian inference in…
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Jeetendra Khadan is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Prospects Group. He works on macroeconomic issues and commodity markets and contributes to the World Bank’s flagship Global Economic Prospects report. Prior to joining the World Bank, Jeetendra worked at the Inter-American Development Bank as a Senior Country Economist in the Caribbean department. Jeetendra has published books and…
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Mr. Aset Irgaliyev (35) was appointed as Chairman of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms. Previously, he held several positions in the Government including Minister of National Economy, First Vice-Minister of National Economy, Deputy Head of the Prime-Minister’s Office, Vice-Minister of National Economy, Advisor to the Prime-Minister. In 2013-2016 he held managerial positions at the…
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Marek Belka is a Polish professor of Economics and politician, who has served as Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments. He is also the former Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) European Department and former Head of Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland). He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019. He was twice…
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Piotr Wachowiak is the rector of the Warsaw School of Economics. He holds a PhD in with a habilitation degree in economic sciences, in the field of management sciences. His specialties include human resources management, negotiations, intellectual capital of enterprises, enterprise knowledge management, corporate social responsibility.
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Mathias Cormann is the 6th Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). His five-year term commenced on 1 June 2021. Prior to his appointment to the OECD, Mathias served as the Australian Minister for Finance, the Leader of the Government in the Australian Senate and as Federal Senator representing the State of Western Australia. In these roles, he has…
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Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti often called 'Winny' is currently serving as Deputy Minister for Economic Affairs, at the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas of the Republic of Indonesia. She was appointed as Deputy Minister in December 2020, after her assignment as Senior Advisor to the Minister of National Development Planning for Economy and Financing at the same institution. She…
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Adam S. Posen has been president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2013. Over his career, he has contributed to research and public policy regarding monetary and fiscal policies in the G-20, the challenges of European integration since the adoption of the euro, China-US economic relations, and developing new approaches to financial recovery and stability. He was…
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Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi is Executive Vice President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET). In this role, she assumes broad strategic and leadership responsibilities, working across departments to bolster ACET programs and to strengthen collaboration and outreach with partners in both the public and private sectors. Mavis joined ACET having built a distinguished career over 25 years…
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Until his appointment as Minister of Economy, Planning and Cooperation in Senegal in April 2019, Mr. Amadou Hott was the Vice President of the African Development Bank’s Power, Energy, Green Growth and Climate Change Complex, since November 2016, and has 20 years of experience in areas such as structured finance, sovereign wealth funds management, investment banking, infrastructure and the…
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