{"id":1057,"date":"2026-02-27T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elg.dotv.vn\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:52:59","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elg.dotv.vn\/2026\/02\/27\/keynote-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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International Conference on Economics, Law and Government (ELG 2026)<\/p>

SYSTEMIC SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS AND POLICY DESIGN IN THE AGE OF MULTIPLE TRANSITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Professor Leonard Wantchekon<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h2>

James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs<\/span><\/p>

Princeton University, USA<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Leonard Wantchekon<\/strong> is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, with affiliations in Economics.<\/p>

A leading scholar in political economy, economic history, and development economics, his work combines field experiments, historical analysis, and institutional studies.<\/p>

Key contributions include:<\/p>

  • Pioneering field experiments with real politicians and elections to study policy messaging, deliberative campaigning, candidate selection, bureaucratic governance, and education politics.<\/li>
  • \u201cThe Paradox of Warlord Democracy\u201d \u2013 a novel framework explaining how liberal democracies can emerge from civil wars, with implications for classical and modern political theory.<\/li>
  • Seminal papers on historical legacies:
    • \u201cSlave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa\u201d (AER 2011, with Nathan Nunn) \u2013 links transatlantic\/Indian Ocean slave trade to contemporary trust levels in Africa (foundational in cultural economics).<\/li>
    • \u201cCritical Junctures\u201d (with Omar Garcia Ponce) \u2013 traces post-Cold War African democracy levels to the nature of anti-colonial movements.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
    • Recent micro-historical research using 19th\u201320th century Benin school data as natural experiments to estimate education\u2019s intergenerational mobility effects via parental aspirations; now extended to gender norms, education demand, and ethnic\/racial inequalities in Africa and the U.S.<\/li><\/ul>

      Shaped by his experience as a pro-democracy student activist under Benin\u2019s repressive military regime (1976\u20131987), recounted in his autobiography R\u00eaver \u00e0 Contre-Courant<\/em> (2012).<\/p>

      He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and serves on the International Economic Association\u2019s Executive Committee.<\/p>

      Founder and President of the African School of Economics (opened in Benin in 2014).<\/p>

      Previously taught at NYU and Yale; PhD in Economics from Northwestern University.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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      Prof. Serguei Maliar<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

      Associate Professor, Economics<\/span><\/p>

      The Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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      \u00a0Serguei Maliar<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, where he has been since Fall 2013.<\/p>

      His main areas of expertise include macroeconomics, economic theory, game theory, numerical methods, transition economies, and economic growth and development.<\/p>

      He has published in top-tier journals such as Econometrica, Quantitative Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He also contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Computational Economics.<\/p>

      Professor Maliar currently advises the Bank of Canada on optimal monetary policy modeling. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and received an NSF grant for 2016\u20132019.<\/p>

      Before joining Santa Clara, he was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He previously taught at the University of Alicante (where he was Director of Graduate Studies in Economics), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Chicago ICE program.<\/p>

      His education includes:<\/p>

      • B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology<\/li>
      • M.A. in Economics from Central European University (Czech Republic)<\/li>
      • Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Zaporozhye State University (Ukraine)<\/li>
      • Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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        Dr. Ermal Frasheri<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

        Senior Fellow Researcher at Center for International Development’s Growth Lab<\/span><\/p>

        Havard Law School, USA<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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        Dr. Ermal Frasheri<\/strong> received his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, and is a fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches a course on Law and Corruption at Sturm College of Law.<\/p>

        During his doctoral studies at Harvard, Ermal worked in the areas of law and development, international law, social and political theories, and European integration. He has written papers on legal reform and comparative law, European Union, financial services, international law, and his dissertation, titled: “Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania,” examined the relationship between regional integration in the context of European integration and development strategies. His current research focuses on the modes of reproduction of hierarchies and inequalities in international law, migration, and law and economic development.<\/p>

        In addition to his research, Ermal has taught at Harvard University in various roles since 2006 in the fields of political philosophy and social theories, European integration and EU law, democracy, international institutions, corruption, and sociology. He was recipient of a teaching excellence award by Harvard (Certificate of Distinction in Teaching) and was appointed a Byse Fellow at Harvard Law School (fall 207) where he taught a series of workshops on Law and Development. He has also taught European Union Law at New England Law, Boston, International Law at Babson College, and International Trade Law at Sturm College of Law.<\/p>

        In June 2017, Dr. Frasheri was elected to the United Nations Committee on Migrant Workers, a treaty body that monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families by its State parties.<\/p>

        Prior to starting his graduate studies, LL.M. and S.J.D., at Harvard, Ermal was a Fulbright Scholar. He has worked on economic development and rule of law projects in Albania, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Thailand, among other places.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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