5th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics

The 5^th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics 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 (Anchor-at-Large and host of “Conflict Zone”, DW)

The academic keynote speakers will be

• Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford) on "Dollar Erosion" 
• Carmen Reinhart (Harvard and CEPR) on "Global Risks: Debt, Bubbles, and Wars"

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).

A second policy panel on “Economic Security: Power, Trade and Critical Raw Materials” will feature:

• Laura Alfaro (Chief Economist and Economic Counselor, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), on leave from Harvard Business School)
• Benjamin Gallezot (France's Interministerial Delegate for Strategic Minerals and Metals Supplies)
• Thomas Steffen (State Secretary, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy)
• Kristupas Vaitiekūnas (Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania)
• Moderated by Steven Beardsley (Business Editor, DW)

The list of confirmed speakers includes leading economists such as 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 Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University, the ReCIPE research initiative, and Sciences Po.

Deutsche Welle (DW) is media partner of the event.

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