CEA 2026

We are organizing the development economics sessions at this year's Canadian Economics Association Meetings in Vancouver (SFU Downtown Campus) May 28-30, 2026.  The link for paper submissions to the conference is here and our call for papers is here. We also will be holding our annual CDESG lunch at the Vancouver conference and details on how to sign up for that and meet with many in the Canadian development economics community will also be posted as we get closer to the conference in May. 

Past CEA conference programs which detail our involvement can be found here. 

CDESG/CEA Keynote Speakers

We organize a CDESG keynote speaker for every CEA meeting. Our previous speakers include:
2025: Eliana La Ferrera

2024: Chris Blattman

2023: Máximo Torero

2022: Siwan Anderson (Innis Lecture)

2019: Eli Berman

2019: Nathan Nunn (Innis Lecture)

2018: Mukesh Eswaran

2017: Leonard Wantchekon

2016: Dean Karlan

2015: Ravi Kanbur

2014: Anne Krueger

2013: Martin Ravallion

2012: Andrew Foster

2011: François Bourguignon

2010: Albert Berry

2009: Jeffrey Williamson

2008: Pranab Bardhan

2007: Phil Keefer