Keynote Speakers

George Borjas

George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Research Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2011. Professor Borjas is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA. Professor Borjas is the author of several books, including Immigration Economics (Harvard University Press, 2014), Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton University Press, 1999), and the widely used textbook Labor Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2020), now in its eighth edition. His latest book is We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, published by W. W. Norton in Fall 2016. He has also published over 170 articles in books and scholarly journals.

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Sandra Sequeira 

Sandra Sequeira is an Associate Professor at the International Development Department, at the London School of Economics, a research affiliate at STICERD, CEPR, Novafrica and the International Growth Centre. Her research focuses on development economics (migration, state capacity), political economy and consumer behavior. She is the recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant (2019-2023), a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2022),  an ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership award (2017) and a WHO Raise Competition Award (2019).  She holds a PhD from Harvard University, an MA from the Fletcher School and a BA from Universidade Nova in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Romain Wacziarg

Romain Wacziarg is Professor of Economics and the Hans Hufschmid Chair at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research on the roots of economic prosperity has been published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Economic Growth. He was the Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2002-2003.Outside UCLA, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). From 1998 to 2008, he was a Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition to his academic experience, he worked as a Consultant for the World Bank.

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