Speakers

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Rafat Mahmood

University of Western Australia

Rafat is in her final year in PhD studies in Economics at UWA. Earlier she completed both her Masters and M.Phil in Economics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan and is currently employed at a public policy think tank in Pakistan. Her primary research interests include Development Economics and Political Economy. In her three dissertation papers, she is exploring the relationship of terrorism with communications technology, drone strikes and religious seminaries, respectively.

Egor Malkov

University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Egor Malkov is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Minnesota and Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He was born in Krasnoyarsk-26, Russia. In 2012 he earned his B.A. in Economics at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. In 2014 he also earned M.A. in Economics there. Egor’s research interests include macroeconomics, labor economics, and public economics. In his free time, he enjoys running (completed 12 marathons), cross-country skiing, and reading.

Marcos Marcolino

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

I did my undergraduate and masters studies at the University of Brasilia, and the PhD in Economics at the University of Minnesota. During the PhD I specialized on macroeconomics and growth with focus on structural transformation. At PIK, I am developing a multi-sector growth model to study how economic growth and reallocation of production interacts with climate change and policies to mitigate its negative effects.

Juan Matamala

UCLA Anderson

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Global Economics and Management at UCLA Anderson. My areas of interest are Productivity, Applied Microeconomics, and Organizational Economics.

Juan Matta

NYU

Juan is an applied microeconomist with research interests in labor economics, the economics of education and the economics of gender. He completed his Ph.D. from New York University in June 2020.

Ana Moreno-Maldonado

European University Institute

Ana Moreno-Maldonado is a PhD candidate in the European University Institute. Her main fields of research are Urban Economics, Labour Economics, and Gender Economics. She is also interested in the Economics of Migration and International Trade. Before starting the PhD, she worked as an Economic Consultant at the OECD. She holds a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a double bachelor in Law and Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Ana Moura

Tilburg University

Ana Moura is a PhD candidate in Economics at Tilburg University, specializing in health economics and applied microeconometrics. Prior to joining Tiburg University, she worked as an economist at the Portuguese statistics bureau and as a research assistant at Nova School of Public Health and Nova School of Business and Economics. Ana holds a MRes from Tilburg University as well as BSc and MSc degrees in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics.

Samson Mukanjari

University of Gothenburg

My research interest is in environmental economics with a focus on international climate policy.

Jan Müller-Dethard

University of Mannheim

Jan Müller-Dethard war born on 13 December 1992 in Hannover. After graduating in Management and Finance with a Masters degree from the University of Mannheim in 2016, he started his PhD studies in finance at the University of Mannheim in January 2017. His research is primarily in behavioral finance/economics and household finance.