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Daron Acemoglu is an esteemed economist and author, currently serving as the Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main areas of research include political economy, economic development and growth, network economics, human capital and technological innovation. Much of his work studies the political, economic and social origins of the differences in economic development across societies. He has also explored the institutional and political evolution of nations and the role that technology plays in shaping economic growth. Acemoglu’s track-record of addressing conventional economic principles in a highly original and astute fashion makes him one of the best regarded thought leaders in the field.
Acemoglu is probably best known for his book - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (co-authored with James Robinson), which made the New York Times Bestseller List in 2012. His other books include: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (also with James Robinson), which was awarded the Woodrow Wilson and the William Riker prizes, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth and Principles of Economics (co-authored with David Laibson and John List) and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James Robinson).
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Kyla Scanlon is the founder of a financial education company and a creator. She writes a weekly newsletter, makes YouTube videos, hosts the “Let’s Appreciate” podcast, and posts almost daily short form videos about the economy and markets. She majored in finance, economics, and data analytics. Upon graduation, she was a CAP Associate at Capital Group. She then joined an education startup to spin out their investment education arm before starting her own company. She is currently writing an introductory book on economics and the Federal Reserve. She has worked with Bloomberg, New York Magazine, the Financial Times, New York Magazine, and the New York Times, as well as many other major publications. Her main goal is to conduct human-centric economic analysis to help connect the dots between what is happening and why it is happening. She has spoken at universities, including MIT and UC Berkeley, as well several conferences. Just recently she published a new book „In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work“.
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Bozidar Djelic is a Managing Director, and Head of Lazard for Central and Eastern Europe, CIS (ex-Soviet Union), and Turkey.
Mr. Djelic advises countries, corporations, and financial institutions on their development programs, financing options, and strategic transactions.He advised the Polish e-commerce giant, Allegro, on its IPO, the Spanish utility Naturgy on the sale of its electricity distribution assets in Moldova, the Serbian electricity incumbent EPS on its strategic options, a Chinese infrastructure player for a highway concession in Romania, and the Ukrainian Naftogaz on the disposal of its Egyptian onshore oil fields.
He advised a Bulgarian telco on its sale, a Serbian bank on its privatization, the Croatian government on its oil assets, a Turkish construction Group for its inaugural Eurobond issuance, a French bank for the sale of its Slovene and North Macedonian subsidiaries, the Polish air transport PGL/LOT for the takeover of Condor holiday carrier, a Baltic food retailer on its CEE expansion, a Ukrainian agribusiness company on its sale, a PE fund for the disposal of its cable assets in Albania.
Mr. Djelic has more than 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors across transition countries, including eight years as a senior member of the Serbian government. He was Deputy Prime Minister between 2007 and 2011, during which time he led negotiations for the country's entry into the European Union and absorption of EU funds. He negotiated the macroeconomic and investment program of the country with all major international financial institutions and other creditors.
During this time he also served as Minister of Science and Technological Development. In 2012 he ran for President of the London-based EBRD and is a well-known personality across transition countries. Between 2013 and 2016 he was an independent non-executive director of Bank of Georgia.
From 2001 to 2004, he was Minister of Finance and Economy of Serbia. He led a far-reaching multi-year stabilization and restructuring program, and deep banking sector reforms. He concluded a 66%, two-step, debt reduction deal with the Paris Club, and negotiated with the London Club and other multilateral and bilateral creditors. He also led the privatization of the tobacco, banking, and insurance sectors.
He was the Chairman of the Belgrade Stock Exchange from 2001 to 2004. He helped secure funding for the Iron Gate hydropower station revitalization.
Between 2005 and 2007, Mr. Djelic served as Credit Agricole's Director for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and was the head of its Ukrainian (Index Bank) and Serbian (Meridian) subsidiaries.
From 1993 to 2001, he was a Partner of McKinsey & Company in the Paris and Silicon Valley offices, specializing in financial institutions, media, and technology.
Between 1990 and 1993, he lived in Warsaw and Moscow, advising the Polish and the Russian governments on their macro and privatization programs and the setting up of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Mr. Djelic holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPA from the J.F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and an MA in Economics from the School of High Social Studies in Paris. He is a graduate of the French business school HEC and the Institute of Political Studies (summa cum laude). -
Paul Krugman is a Neo-Keynesian economist, Nobel laureate, academic, author, and media columnist, known for his work on international trade theory and economic geography.
Considered one of the world's most influential economists, Krugman is renowned for redefining existing theories of international trade and either founding or co-founding several new disciplines in international economics, from New Trade Theory (NTT) and New Economic Geography (NEG) to models of financial crises and exchange rate movements.
In 2008, Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
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Mojmír Hampl je již více než dva roky členem Národní rozpočtové rady, jejímž úkolem je strážit české veřejné finance. Od července 2022 tomuto nezávislému orgánu předsedá. Mezi lety 2006 až 2018 byl součástí bankovní rady České národní banky, z toho více než deset let v pozici viceguvernéra. V minulosti působil v ČNB také jako analytik. Před nástupem do NRR pracoval jako ředitel služeb pro finanční sektor v poradenské společnosti KPMG. Jako jeden z předních českých ekonomů často zasedá v odborných poradních orgánech, jako je například NERV, pravidelně přednáší na vysokých školách a publikuje.
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Michal Kuděj je absolventem Vysoké školy ekonomické v Praze. Specializuje na firemní finance a restrukturalizační procesy. V oblasti firemních financí, fúzí, akvizic se pohybuje od roku 1991. Je zakládajícím partnerem poradenské společnosti Tarpan Partners, v níž působí od roku 2010. Působí také na katedře strategie Fakulty podnikohospodářské Vysoké školy ekonomické jako odborný asistent a člen vědecké rady Centra restrukturalizace a insolvence Harryho Pollaka. V expertní pracovní skupině Ministerstva spravedlnosti se rovněž podílí na implementaci evropské směrnice o preventivní restrukturalizace do národní právní úpravy. Je autorem řady odborných publikací.
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Maros founded LitFin in 2018 after spending several years as a business director of a successful property development company in Manchester, the United Kingdom. As LitFin’s managing partner, Maros handles its day-to-day activities, business strategy and investments. Lately, his primary focus revolves around LitFin SICAV, a recently established fully-regulated fund, perhaps the first of its kind within the EU area focused on the litigation finance industry.
In 2019, Maros was honored as part of Forbes' 30 Under 30, a testament to his entrepreneurial skills and influence in the business world. Furthermore, Maros is a Chambers-ranked individual for 2023 in the EU.
Maros' education includes graduating with distinction in law, which he studied in Manchester (the UK) and Lund (Sweden). His international educational background has played a crucial role in shaping his career and business strategies.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Maros enjoys a variety of personal interests. He is known for his love of swimming and traveling, however, most of all he cherishes spending weekends at his countryside mansion nestled in the hills, where he can relax and unwind from his busy work schedule.
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Perry Mehrling is a Professor of International Political Economy at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, where he teaches courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and international money.
Perry is the author of The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort (Princeton 2011), Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Wiley 2005), and The Money Interest and the Public Interest (Harvard 1997).
He currently serves on the Academic Council of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (New York) and the Committee on Global Thought (Columbia University), and has served as visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, University of Nice, Paris X (Nanterre), and the Sloan School of Management, MIT.
He has a BA from Harvard College, an MSc from London School of Economics, and a PhD from Harvard University. Professor Mehrling’s areas of expertise include money and banking, political economy, history of monetary and financial thought, and global money.
He also teaches the popular "Economics of Money and Banking" MOOC on the Coursera website.
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Mr. Joseph Wassel is the Executive Director (CEO) of the First Responder Network Authority. He is responsible for overall management of all FirstNet Authority operations and the organization’s strategic direction, to include its unique public-private arrangement to deploy and enhance the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network.
Prior to joining the FirstNet Authority, Mr. Wassel served as the Executive for the Cyberspace Operations Directorate within the Defense Information Systems Agency. He is also the former Director of C4 Resilience & Mission Assurance in the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer’s office. He was also the founder and chair of DoD’s Public Safety Communications Working Group, where he led the Services, Joint Staff, National Guard, NORTHCOM, and other DoD partner activities for the Department’s public safety communications efforts, including Next-Generation Public Safety Wireless capabilities, Next-Generation 9-1-1 implementation, and Enterprise Mass Warning and Notification capabilities for DoD. Prior to assuming his former positions, Mr. Wassel served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Communications and Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
A retired Air Force Officer, he has commanded troops during several tours in the United States and overseas and deployed as a reservist in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as the Chief of Command and Control Operations for the International Security Assistance Force at the Combined Joint Operations Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mr. Wassel Joined the Senior Executive Service (SES) Corps in 2019. His military and civilian decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, and the Secretary of Defense Meritorious and Exceptional Civilian Service Medals. He was decorated for his actions during the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
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Krisztián Orbán holds master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is a former McKinsey consultant, a former corporate executive, and the founder of Oriens, a top performing European PE fund which owns companies in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Hungary. Since 2010, Oriens has been acquiring medium-sized companies to turn them into successful large ones.
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Dan McCrum is a multi-award winning journalist and author. He is a member of the Financial Times investigations team, and has spent 15 years writing about business from New York and London. His reporting has been recognised with more than a dozen prizes, including journalist of the year at the 2020 British Press Awards. His first book is ‘Money Men: a hot start up, a billion dollar fraud, a fight for the truth. It tells the thrilling inside story of the astonishing rise and crashing fall of the $30bn German fintech Wirecard, and has been made into the Netflix feature documentary Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard.
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Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997).
Professor Eichengreen is the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials and chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute of International Economics. He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate.
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Marc Faber, who studied at the University of Zurich and earned his PhD in Economics at the age of 24, is considered one of the world's premier economists and stock market investors. Known for his "contrarian" investment approach, Dr. Faber is renowned for his timely market predictions. He is also the author of an Amazon best seller, Tomorrow's Gold- Asia's Age of Discovery, has been a regular contributor to several of the world's leading financial publications, and is publisher of the widely read Gloom Boom & Doom Report.
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Sumit Agarwal is Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore. He is also the Managing Director of Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at NUS. In the past, he has held positions as a Professor of Finance at the Business School, Georgetown University. Before that he was a senior financial economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and prior to joining the Chicago Fed, he was a senior vice president and credit risk management executive in the Small Business Risk Solutions Group of Bank of America.
Sumit’s research is widely cited in leading newspapers and magazines like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and the U.S Presidents Report to Congress. He also runs a blog on household financial decision making called Smart Finance.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economist, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. He has authored numerous bestseller books, most recently A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018). Sachs was twice named as Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders, and was ranked by The Economist among the top three most influential living economists.
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Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory.
With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases, and developed prospect theory.
In 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In the same year, his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, which summarizes much of his research, was published and became a best seller. In 2015, The Economist listed him as the seventh most influential economist in the world.
He is professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Kahneman is a founding partner of TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was married to cognitive psychologist and Royal Society Fellow Anne Treisman, who died in 2018. -
Aswath Damodaran is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation. He is best known as author of several widely used academic and practitioner texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance, and Investment Management. Damodaran is widely quoted on the subject of valuation, with "a great reputation as a teacher and authority". He has written several books on equity valuation, as well on corporate finance, and investments. He is also widely published in leading journals of finance, including The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.
Prior to joining NYU, he served as visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley from 1984 to 1986. He was profiled in Business Week as one of the top 12 U.S. business school professors; he has also received awards for excellence in teaching from both universities.
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Je absolventem oboru finance, účetnictví a korporátní strategie na Institutu politických studiích v Paříži. V minulosti působil například jako M&A analytik ve skupině Société Générale nebo jako investiční bankéř Goldman Sachs v Londýně. Od roku 2010 se profesně zabývá především transakcemi a správou aktiv na trhu nájemního bydlení. Na vysokých manažerských pozicích působil ve společnostech BXR Partners v Praze, Olo Asunnot ve Finsku či Round Hill Capital v Londýně. Byl také finančním a následně investičním ředitelem společnosti Residomo, jež v Moravskoslezském kraji vlastnila 43 tisíc bytů převážně po OKD. Poté, co Residomo převzala švédská společnost Heimstaden, stal se v říjnu 2020 ředitelem jejího akvizičního týmu pro střední a východní Evropu, Německo a Finsko.
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Vystudoval jadernou fyziku na ČVUT v Praze a v minulosti působil například jako FEM analytik ve společnosti Mercedes Benz, jako vedoucí týmu v R&D Robert Bosch nebo jako výzkumný pracovník v Ústavu jaderných paliv Praha.
Nyní aktivně řídí investice fondu Green Horizon Renewables ve Finsku, zejména portfolio projektů větrných elektráren. Zabývá se i přípravou nových projektů a novými akvizicemi v oblasti on-shore větrné energetiky. Působí také v pozici předsedy představenstva developera větrných projektů, finské společnosti Winda Energy Oy.
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Peter joined Goldman Sachs in 2002, was named Managing Director in 2003 and Partner in 2006. Peter previously worked as Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist at HSBC, was Head of European Strategy at James Capel, Chief Economic Strategist at Hambros Bank, and beginning his career as an economist at Greenwells in 1985. Peter is a trustee of The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, a children's charity dedicated to providing training and support for child mental health services, and is a trustee of Mitzvah Day, a charity that brings people together from all backgrounds, through Jewish-led social action. He is also a member of the Motability Endowment Trust Investment Committee. Peter earned a BSc, first class, in Geography from the London School of Economics in 1985.
The interview was recorded on March 23, 2021
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