CDES Sustainable Development Conference 2024
This annual conference at the Monash University Prato Centre makes research connections between academics at Monash Business School and international researchers and practitioners in the area of development economics. It aims to stimulate new ideas, deepen existing research relationships, and explore further opportunities for mutually beneficial interaction and collaboration.
The 2024 Sustainable Development Conference is hosted by the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES), in collaboration with the World Bank.
Its key purpose is to bring together a core group of Monash scholars and prominent development economists from around the world to discuss research topics of common interest, deepen research relationships, and explore joint research grant opportunities for collaboration.
It is a continuation of an annual event that started several years ago as the Monash Business and Sustainability Network Workshop on Sustainable Development held at the Monash Prato Centre in Prato, Italy.
Papers for presentation are now being accepted (See Registration and submissions below).
Keynote speakers
Rohini Pande, Yale University
Professor Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University.
Prof Pande’s research is largely focused on how formal and informal institutions shape power relationships and patterns of economic political, and environmental advantage in society, particularly in developing countries. She is interested in the role of public policy in providing the poor and disadvantaged political and economic power, and how notions of economic justice and human rights can help justify and enable such change.
Prof Pande received the Carolyn Bell Shaw Award from the American Economic Association in 2018 for promoting the success of women in the economics profession. She is the co-chair of the Political Economy and Government Group at Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a Board member of Bureau of Research on Economic Development (BREAD) and a former co-editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Before arriving at Yale, Prof Pande was the Rafik Harriri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School where she co-founded Evidence for Policy Design. She has a PhD in economics from London School of Economics.
Albert F. Park, Chief Economist, The Asian Development Bank
Albert Park is Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Director General of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. He is chief spokesperson on economic and development trends and leads the production of ADB’s flagship knowledge products and support for regional cooperation.
Mr Park has more than two decades of experience as a development economist and is a well-known expert on the economy of the People’s Republic of China. He has worked on a broad range of development issues including poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, microfinance, migration and labor markets, the future of work, and foreign investment.
Mr Park is also Chair Professor of Economics, Social Science, and Public Policy at HKUST (on leave). He served as a founding director of HKUST’s Institute for Emerging Market Studies and Center for Economic Policy, and previously held faculty positions at the University of Oxford and University of Michigan. He has a doctorate in applied economics from Stanford University.
Invited speakers
- Professor Gabriella Conti, University College London
- Associate Professor Garance Genicot, Georgetown University
- Dean Jolliffe, World Bank/Adjunct Professor, John Hopkins University
- Professor Karen Macours, Paris School of Economics
- Professor Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER
Event Details
- Date:
- 12 June 2024 at 9:00 am – 13 June 2024 at 5:00 pm
- Venue:
- Monash University Prato Centre, Pugliesi, 26, 59100 Prato PO, Italy
- Categories:
- Alumni; General; Sustainability & Social change
Description
This annual conference at the Monash University Prato Centre makes research connections between academics at Monash Business School and international researchers and practitioners in the area of development economics. It aims to stimulate new ideas, deepen existing research relationships, and explore further opportunities for mutually beneficial interaction and collaboration.
The 2024 Sustainable Development Conference is hosted by the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES), in collaboration with the World Bank.
Its key purpose is to bring together a core group of Monash scholars and prominent development economists from around the world to discuss research topics of common interest, deepen research relationships, and explore joint research grant opportunities for collaboration.
It is a continuation of an annual event that started several years ago as the Monash Business and Sustainability Network Workshop on Sustainable Development held at the Monash Prato Centre in Prato, Italy.
Papers for presentation are now being accepted (See Registration and submissions below).
Keynote speakers
Rohini Pande, Yale University
Professor Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University.
Prof Pande’s research is largely focused on how formal and informal institutions shape power relationships and patterns of economic political, and environmental advantage in society, particularly in developing countries. She is interested in the role of public policy in providing the poor and disadvantaged political and economic power, and how notions of economic justice and human rights can help justify and enable such change.
Prof Pande received the Carolyn Bell Shaw Award from the American Economic Association in 2018 for promoting the success of women in the economics profession. She is the co-chair of the Political Economy and Government Group at Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a Board member of Bureau of Research on Economic Development (BREAD) and a former co-editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Before arriving at Yale, Prof Pande was the Rafik Harriri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School where she co-founded Evidence for Policy Design. She has a PhD in economics from London School of Economics.
Albert F. Park, Chief Economist, The Asian Development Bank
Albert Park is Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Director General of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. He is chief spokesperson on economic and development trends and leads the production of ADB’s flagship knowledge products and support for regional cooperation.
Mr Park has more than two decades of experience as a development economist and is a well-known expert on the economy of the People’s Republic of China. He has worked on a broad range of development issues including poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, microfinance, migration and labor markets, the future of work, and foreign investment.
Mr Park is also Chair Professor of Economics, Social Science, and Public Policy at HKUST (on leave). He served as a founding director of HKUST’s Institute for Emerging Market Studies and Center for Economic Policy, and previously held faculty positions at the University of Oxford and University of Michigan. He has a doctorate in applied economics from Stanford University.
Invited speakers
- Professor Gabriella Conti, University College London
- Associate Professor Garance Genicot, Georgetown University
- Dean Jolliffe, World Bank/Adjunct Professor, John Hopkins University
- Professor Karen Macours, Paris School of Economics
- Professor Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER