Eighth IAERE Annual Conference
6-7 February 2020, Brescia (Italy)
Keynotes
Christian Gollier Geoffrey Heal
Christian Gollier is an internationally renowned researcher in Decision Theory under Uncertainty and its applications in climate economics, finance, and cost-benefit analysis, with a special interest for long term (sustainable) effects. He is fellow of the Econometric Society, and he received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2011. With Jean Tirole, he founded the Toulouse School of Economics, where he served as director (2007-2015), vice-president (2017), and director again since December 2017. He is president-elect of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He is one of the Lead Authors of the last two reports of the IPCC. He published more than 100 articles in top journals in economics, and is the author of several books published by MIT Press, Princeton University Press and Columbia University Press. In recent years, he has performed sabbatical semesters abroad at the invitation of the economics department of Harvard (2013) and Columbia (2015-2016).
Geoffrey Heal is a Professor of Economics at Columbia Business School. His main academic interests are in economic theory and environmental economics. He is also actively involved with environmental organizations, being on the board of directors of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Chair of the Board of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations and on the Advisory Board of the Environmental Defense Fund. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and has published eighteen books and several hundred journal articles.
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