Tribute to Philippe Martin

8.30 - 9.00 am : Welcome Coffee

9.00 - 9.15 am : Introduction
Luis Vassy, President of Sciences Po 
Beatrice Weder di Mauro, President, CEPR

9.15 - 11.15 am : International Trade Session
Speakers : Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi), Florian Mayneris (UQAM), Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po)

11.15 - 11.45 am : Coffee Break

11.45 am - 12.30 pm : Philippe Martin Award

12:30 - 2.00 pm : Lunch

2.00 - 4.00 pm : International Finance Session
Speakers : Giancarlo Corsetti (EUI), Francesco Pappadà (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, PSE), Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank NY)

4.00 - 4.30 pm : Coffee Break

4.30 - 5.45 pm : Panel on "Global Economics, Geopolitics, and the Role of Europe"
Chair : Maurice Obstfeld (PIIE and CEPR)
Panellists : Arancha Gonzalez Laya (Sciences Po), Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (IMF, Berkeley and CEPR), Sergei Guriev (London Business School and CEPR), Richard Portes (London Business school and CEPR)

6.00 - 8.00 pm : Cocktail

International Trade Session

Gianmarco Ottaviano is professor of economics and the Boroli Chair in European Studies at Bocconi University. He is also the co-director of the research unit on globalisation and industry dynamics of the Bocconi Centre Baffi-CAREFIN. His publications reflect his research interests in international trade, urban economics, and economic geography. His most recent work focuses on the competitiveness of firms in the global economy as well as the economic effects of immigration and offshoring on employment and wages.

Florian Mayneris is full professor of economics at the École des sciences de la gestion of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He is also a member of the CEPR and Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (CIRANO).  His research focuses on spatial inequalities in development between regions and neighbourhoods, and on assessing the impact of regional and industrial policies. He is the author of numerous academic articles on these subjects, as well as several partnership research reports carried out on behalf of ministries and public bodies in Canada and Europe.

Isabelle Mejean is a professor at Sciences Po and a research fellow at CEPR. Her area of expertise is in international trade. She is particularly interested in how countries and companies have become gradually specialised and integrated into the international trade circuit, by way of global value chains, and in the macroeconomic consequences of these configurations. She received a starting grant from the European Research Council in 2017 for a research project on firm networks in international markets. She was the laureate of the 2020 prize for the Best French Economist under 40.

International Finance Session

Giancarlo Corsetti is the Pierre Werner Chair at the Robert Schuman Centre and professor of economics at the European University Institute.  He is also a research fellow at CEPR where he serves as coordinator of the European Macroeconomic Policy Research and Policy Network (RPN). Fellow of the British Academy, member of the European Economic Association, he is also a consultant at the European Central Bank and a regular visiting professor in central banks and international institutions.  Since 2018, he is a member the United Nations High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs. His contributions range from models of the international economy and open macro models; to empirical and theoretical work on currency, financial and sovereign crises; monetary and fiscal policy; and international finance. 

Francesco Pappadà is assistant professor of economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and an affiliate researcher at the Paris School of Economics (PSE), where he is also is the executive director of the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum. Prior to joining PSE, he was a senior research economist at the Banque de France in the International Macroeconomics Division. He is also a research fellow at the EUTAX Observatory. His research interests are in macroeconomics and international macroeconomics. With Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris), he launched the Salento Macro Meetings in 2017, a conference which takes place in Lecce (Italy) every summer.

Linda S. Goldberg is a Financial Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, following previous roles including Senior Vice President, head of Global Economic Analysis, and head of the International Research function. Linda's main areas of expertise are global banking, international capital flows, and the international roles of currencies. Linda co-chairs the International Banking Research Network, is a BIS Technical Advisor, a CEPR Distinguished Fellow, and an NBER Research Associate, and leads the Americas chapter of the Central Banking Economic Research Association. An active researcher, Linda also has held a range of journal roles, including as co-editor of the International Journal of Central Banking, on editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Intermediation and Journal of Financial Services Research, and editor of special issues for multiple journals. 

Panel: Global Economics, Geopolitics and the Role of Europe

Chair

Maurice Obstfeld is the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) since 2019 and the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). He joined Berkeley following appointments at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. In 2014-2015 he was a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, and from 2015-2018 he served as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Before that, he served as an honorary adviser to the Bank of Japan’s Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies. Professor Obstfeld is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is active as a CEPR Distinguished Fellow and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on the global economy.

Panellists

Arancha González is Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po. Prior to joining PSIA, Ms González served as Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (2020-2021). She previously was Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (2013-2020). Between 2005 and 2013 she served as Chief of Staff to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy. Before that she held senior positions at the European Commission in the areas of international trade and development.

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is the Economic Counsellor and the Director of Research of the IMF. He is on leave from UC Berkeley where he is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management in the Department of Economics and at the Haas School of Business. He is a research associate (on leave) with NBER and a research fellow with CEPR and with the International Growth Centre (IGC). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. His main research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. His recent research focuses on the scarcity of global safe assets, global imbalances and currency wars; on the International Monetary System and the role of the U.S. dollar; on the Dominant Currency Paradigm; on the determinants of capital flows to and from developing countries; on international portfolios; on the global financial crisis and on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures. He is the 2007 laureate of the Bernacer Prize for the best european economist under 40, working in macroeconomics and finance, and winner of the 2008 prize for est French economist under 40. In 2012-2013, Professor Gourinchas was a member of the French Council of Economic Advisors (Conseil d'analyse économique - CAE) to the Prime Minister.

Sergei Guriev is Dean and Professor of Economics at the London Business School (LBS) since 2024. Before LBS, he was on the faculty of Sciences Po (Paris) as a tenured professor of economics (2013-24) and as its first Provost (2022-2024).  In 2016-19, he was on leave from Sciences Po serving as the Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Prior to joining Sciences Po, he was the Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. He is also a CEPR Research Fellow. He is a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission, Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association. His research interests include political economics, development economics, labour mobility, and contract theory and he has authored numerous academic publications in those fields. 

Richard Portes (CBE FBA) is Professor of Economics at London Business School (LBS), is the Founder and Honorary President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Co-Founder of Economic Policy. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy. He has been Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board Advisory Scientific Committee (ESRB), of which he remains a member, and he is Co-Chair of the ESRB Joint Expert Group on Non-bank Financial Intermediation as well as of the new ESRB Crypto Assets Task Force. He is a founder member of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy and the Euro50 Group. He is an Academic Director of the AQR Asset Management Institute at LBS. He has written extensively on sovereign borrowing and debt, European monetary issues, European financial markets, macroprudential regulation, and international capital flows.