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Keynote speakers
Jayati Ghosh: Jayati Ghosh is a development economist and Professor of Economics at
the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, at the
Jawaharlal
Nehru University, in New Delhi, India. Her specialities include globalization, international finance,
employment patterns in developing countries,
macroeconomic policy,
and issues related to gender and development.
Katharina Pistor is Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Director of
the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her research and
teaching spans corporate law, corporate governance, money and finance, property
rights, comparative law and law and development. She has published widely in
legal and interdisciplinary journals and is the author and co-author of several
books is the recipient of the Max Planck Research Award (2012).
Danny Quah: Danny Quah is Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew
School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Quah’s work includes
contributions to the fields of economic growth, development economics, monetary
economics, macroeconometrics, and the weightless economy.
Andrew Sheng: is a distinguished fellow at Fung Global Institute, chief adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, and a board
member of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the sovereign wealth fund of Malaysia. He
also serves as an adviser to the UN Environment Program Inquiry
into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of
No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, and No is Not Enough. She
is Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, a Puffin Writing Fellow at Type
Media Center and is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture and
Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.
Mentors:
- Morris
Altman - Dean and Head of School, Newcastle Business School
- Stefan
Angrick - Senior Economist, Oxford Economics
- Christopher
Balding - Associate Professor, Fulbright University Vietnam
- Corrado
Di Guilmi - Senior Lecturer, Economics Discipline Group
- Ha Thi
Thu Huong - Associate Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences
- Jianxi
Luo - Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Kelvin
Low -
Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University
- Tomoo
Marukawa - Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
- Sunanda
Nair-Bidkar - Director of Strategic Planning, South Asia, Institute for New
Economic Thinking.
- Jedidiah
Joseph Kroncke - Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
- Vamsi
Vakulabharanam - Associate Professor, UMassAmherst
- Bhuvaneswari
Raman - Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for the Study of Urban
Transformation
- Arjun
Jayadev - Senior Economist Associate Professor, Azim Premji University
and many
others!
Young Scholar Presentations
Hosted by 17
different YSI Working Groups, 200 young scholars will present papers in the
following subject areas: Africa, Complexity,
Cooperatives, Development, East
Asia, Economic History, Finance, Law and Economics, Financial Stability, Gender and Economics, Inequality,
Innovation, Keynesian Economics, South
Asia, States and Markets, Sustainability, Urban and Regional Economics, Gender and East Asia, History of Economic Thought
About YSI Regional Convenings
The YSI
Regional Convenings provide a platform for young thinkers across the YSI
Working Groups to meet, share ideas, and inspire each other. Previous regional
convenings took place in Trento (Europe), Buenos Aires (Latin America), Harare
(Africa) and Los Angeles (North America). The Asia Convening is the fifth in
the series!
About VNU University of Economics and Business
The University of Economics and Business
(UEB), a member of the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU).
VNU-UEB’s missions are: To provide highly qualified and specialized oriented
human resources in policy analysis, economic management and business
administration; To develop and transfer research outcomes; To offer an
advantageous environment to create, cultivate and develop talents in fields of economic
analysis, modern management and business administration.
>> See more:https://www.ineteconomics.org/events/ysi-asia-regional-convening-2019