Keynote Speakers

Gilat Levy is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a research fellow at CEPR and a fellow of the Econometric society. She was a co-editor of The Economic Journal and a member of the board of editors of the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Theoretical Economics and the Journal of the European Economic Association. She served as a council member in the European Economic Association and the Royal Economic Society.

She received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University and a BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on Microeconomic Theory and Political Economy. her recent papers analyse how institutions, culture, and behavioural biases, affect political and economic outcomes such as populism and polarisation. Her research has been published in leading journals in economics including Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

Philip J. Reny is the Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago. He  is an economic theorist whose research interests include auction theory, information aggregation, mechanism design, and game theory. 

His current research focuses on incorporating natural language into game theory, with an emphasis on refining sequential equilibria through simple and easily understood conventions within the language. 

Reny became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015; a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2012; a charter member of the Game Theory Society in 1999, and a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996. He served as the Chair of the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics and as the lead editor of Journal of Political Economy.