Keynote Speakers
The GGDC is honored to present the keynote speakers that have agreed to come to Groningen for the 2024 conference.
Leticia Arroyo Abad
Leticia Arroyo Abad is Associate Professor of Economics at City University of New York, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and currently visiting at Yale University. She is an economic historian who specializes in the long-term economic development of the Americas, travelling the world to gather historical data from a variety of archives. Her research agenda answers questions about development and growth in historical perspective. Specifically: Why are some nations richer than others? What are the determinants of inequality? She explores these questions with a special focus on the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. Her current research project on voluntary and involuntary migration to the Americas since Columbus has received funding by the National Science Foundation.
Mary O'Mahony
Mary O'Mahony is Professor of Applied Economics at King's College London, and Research Director of The Productivity Insitute. Her research interests include measuring and explaining international differences in productivity, technology and growth; human capital formation and its impacts on productivity and measuring performance in public services, including health and education. She joined King’s in May 2013 and was previously Professor at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. She is currently a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London. Her research has in recent years been primarily funded by the European Commission and she recently coordinated two EC FP7 projects SERVICEGAP and INDICSER as well as being academic coordinator on the FP6 EU KLEMS project.
Douglas Gollin
Doug Gollin is Professor of Economics at Tufts University. His research focuses broadly on economic development and growth, with an emphasis on the structural transformations that accompany the growth process. He has particular interests in agricultural productivity and technology, from a micro scale to macro scale. His work has also looked at rural-urban mobility and urbanization processes, spatial patterns of development and a range of other topics. He currently serves as Research Director for a major global program of academic research on Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG), funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, and he is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).
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