Keynote Speakers

Andreas Kotsadam is a Senior Researcher at the Frisch Centre, a Professor at the University of Oslo, and an affiliate of EGAP and CESifo.

His research spans economics, political science, and sociology, with a particular focus on behavioral economics, development, gender, and inequality.

He studies topics in public and labor economics, as well as development, primarily using field and survey experiments to better understand how institutions and policies shape social and economic outcomes.

Barbara Petrongolo is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. She is Director of the CEPR Labour Economics Programme and Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. She is currently managing co-editor of the Economic Journal.

Her primary research interests are in labour economics. She has worked extensively on the performance of labour markets with job search frictions, with applications to unemployment dynamics, welfare policy and interdependencies across local labour markets.