Presenters

Jonathan Goupille-Lebret

Yajna Govind

Yajna Govind is an Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School and a research fellow at the World Inequality Lab. She is interested in Applied Labor and Public Economics, with a keen interest in Inequality & Migration.

Carlos Gradín

Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). On leave of absence from my previous appointment as professor of applied economics at the University of Vigo. My main research interest is the study of poverty, inequality and discrimination in developed and developing countries, or globally. I'm especially interested in those inequalities that occur between population groups (i.e. by gender, race, or ethnicity).

Luigi Guiso

Luigi Guiso is the Axa Professor of Household Finance at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance in Rome. He has held positions at the University of Tor Vergata and the
European University Institute. He has directed the Finance Programme at the CEPR in London and taught as a visiting professor at the at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Northwestern University and Imperial College. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society

Neha Gupta

I am Neha Gupta, Ph.D. in Economics and Finance (2015-2021) from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Prior, I have a double master’s degree in quantitative economics and finance from University of Paris 1, Pantheon Sorbonne.
My research interests are applied economics, causal econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, urban and development economics.

Primary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Urban and Development Economics, Monetary Economics, Causal Inference.

Demetrio Guzzardi

I'm Demetrio Guzzardi PhD student at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. After obtaining my Master from the Paris School of Economics and Pantheon Sorbonne Paris-1, I worked at the OECD and European Commission for a few years before returning to Italy to start a PhD. My research interests include economic and social inequality, fiscal policy and macroeconomic.

Stephane Hallegatte

Stéphane Hallegatte is the Senior Climate Change Advisor of the World Bank Climate Change Group. He is the author of dozens of articles published in international journals and of several books and World Bank reports on green growth, sustainable development, and the economics of natural disasters and climate change.

Elin Halvorsen

Olle Hammar

I am a postdoc at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and the Institute for Futures Studies. PhD in economics from Uppsala University. My research focuses on topics related to inequality, culture and migration.

Nicolas Herault

I am Associate Professor at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research at the University of Melbourne.
My research interests include the study of income inequality and income mobility, tax and transfer policies, labour market participation and homelessness. I also have interests in microsimulation modelling and the use of survey and administrative record data.