Key note speakers

We are very pleased to announce that this year's key note speakers will be:

Philip Lowe is Director General of DG Competition of the European Commission. At the end of 1973, he joined the European Commission where he worked in the fields of loans and borrowings, steel restructuring and regional development before becoming Chef de Cabinet of Bruce Millan, European Commissioner for Regional Policies in 1989. In 1991, he was appointed Director of Rural Development in the Directorate General for Agriculture. From 1993 to 1995, he was Director of the Merger Task Force in the Directorate General for Competition. In January 1995, he was seconded to be Chef de Cabinet of Neil Kinnock, European Commissioner for Transport and Transeuropean Networks. In December 1997, he was appointed Director General for Development; he was responsible in particular for the negotiation of the EU-ACP Cotonou Partnership Agreement and the EU-South Africa Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement. In June 2000, he was appointed Chef de Cabinet to Vice-President Neil Kinnock, who is responsible for the administrative reform of the Commission. From 1st February 2002, he was seconded to the Secretariat General and appointed acting Deputy Secretary General responsible for relations with the Council.

 

Ernst Fehr is Professor in Economics at the University of Zurich, Director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Analysis of Economic Growth, and on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His research field spans economy, physics, sociology and psychology. Professor Fehr has published widely in the field of economic theory and social evolution. His work has appeared in journals such as NATURE, Econometrica, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His recent research interests are focused upon human behaviour and economic theory.

Joseph Harrington Jr. is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, Editor of the RAND Journal of Economics, Co-Editor of Foundation and Trends in Microeconomics (Industrial Organization), and Associate Editor of Economics of Governance and the Southern Economic Journal. His research field spans industrial organization, organizations and microeconomic theory. Professor Harrington has published widely in the field of industrial economics and his work has appeared in such journals as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and the RAND Journal of Economics. His recent research interests is focused on cartel pricing dynamics.