Keynote speaker :
Jean TIROLE, Ph.D., Professor
Honorary Chairman, Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont/Toulouse Sciences Economiques (TSE), Honorary Chairman, Executive Committee, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel.
Jean Tirole is honorary chairman of the Foundation JJ Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), and scientific director of TSE-Partnership. He is also affiliated with MIT, where he holds a visiting position, and the Institut de France. Professor Tirole’s research covers industrial organization, regulation, finance, macroeconomics and banking, and psychology-based economics.
Jean Tirole has published over two hundred articles in international reviews, as well as twelve scientific books. Published in English in 2017, his latest book entitled Economics for the Common Good is accessible to a wide audience and available in a number of other languages. He is laureate of numerous international distinctions, including the 2007 CNRS gold medal and the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel.
Discussion area: «Economic Development in the Face of Multidimensional Uncertainty»
Kevin O’Rourke
Professor of Economics at NYU Abu Dhabi. He was previously the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a former Research Director of CEPR.
His research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics. He has published extensively on the history of globalization and deglobalization: his books include the prize-winning Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey Williamson), and Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (co-authored with Ronald Findlay). He was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator in 2009 to study interwar trade and trade policy. His most recent book is Une Histoire Brève du Brexit (Odile Jacob, 2018), published in English as A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop (Penguin, 2019).
Discussion area: «Trends in Education and a New Paradigm for University Development»
Volodymyr PONOMARENKO
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Cavalier of the Orden of Merit, III, II degrees, “Orden of Prince Yaroslav the Wise” V degree, corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.
Volodymyr Ponomarenko investigates the problems of strategic enterprise management, simulation modeling, reforming higher economic education, training competent specialists, and the use of information technologies in education. In the 1970s, he was one of the pioneers of simulation modeling in the USSR. He is author of about 400 scientific works, in particular, more than 100 monographs and about 50 training manuals. Under the scientific leadership of Volodymyr Ponomarenko, strategic programs for the development of the Kharkiv region until 2011, until 2015 and until 2020 were developed.
He is head of the scientific school “Development of strategic management systems of an industrial enterprise” of Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics. His key publications include the following monographs: Problèmes de formation des économistes et managers compétents en Ukraine, Розвиток вищої освіти в Україні: аспекти менеджменту та маркетингу, Some problems of the education system in Ukraine: analytics, Conceptual and model support for the development of an innovative-active university.
Discussion area: «Domain of Social Development of Countries: Current Research»
Paul Seabright
Teaches economics at the Toulouse School of Economics in France since 2000. He was Director from 2012 to 2021 of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). He is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, and of the European Economic Association. He was formerly a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at DG-Competition of the European Commission and a member of the Scientific Council of the think-tank BRUEGEL. Since 2005 he has been an almost annual visitor at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
His current research lies in three areas of microeconomics: industrial organization and competition policy; the economics of networks and the digital society; and behavioral economics (especially the integration of evolutionary biology and anthropology with an understanding of the development of economic institutions in the very long run). He is working on a book under contract to Princeton University Press entitled The Origins of Enchantment: How Religions Compete.
Discussion area: «Digital Society and Information Technology»
Olha STARKOVA
Dr. Sc. (Tech.) Prof., Head of Cybersecurity and Information Technology Department at Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics
Modern research is devoted to computer support for the search for optimal solutions for ensuring the sustainable functioning of critical infrastructure facilities. She is author of more than 180 scientific publications. The most recently published monograph Methodological principles for informational and technological monitoring of the stable operation of the sewerage networks (Kharkiv: Rarities of Ukraine, 2022) is a combination of modern research on information monitoring of the stable operation of underground engineering infrastructure and leading achievements in the field of construction science.