April 11-12, 2024
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School
In Spring 2024, the Reimagining the Economy Project will bring together researchers and policy practitioners from around the world to take stock of the range of current thinking in productive development policies.
We hope to answer questions such as: how are governments using the tools of industrial policy across a range of domains and objectives - to navigate the energy transition, growth in agriculture and small and medium enterprise, to enable innovation and job creation, and to address regional disparities? What new approaches are being used? How do approaches of emerging and advanced economies differ? Stemming from all of this, what are the institutional arrangements and state capacity concerns undergirding the implementation of these policies? Who are the actors and agencies involved and what roles do they play? How are the capabilities of these actors being built?
The event will be organized as a series of panel discussions.
Institute Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Global Co-Lead for Labor and Skills, World Bank
Head, Productivity Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Science Technology and Innovation Directorate, OECD
Founding Partner, HacePeru.pe; Former Minister of Production, Peru
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California Los Angeles
Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Associate Professor in Economics, Oxford University
Assistant Professor of Economics, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Professor in the Economics of Innovation & Public Value, University College London (UCL); Founding Director, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Lecturer, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; Former Minister of Public Works, Liberia
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia Law School
IDB Representative in Mexico
Deputy Head of School (Research) and Professor of International Political Economy, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA) at UNSW Sydney
Assistant Professor, Institute for Public Policy, Diego Portales University
Chief Research Officer: Climate and Development, University of Cape Town Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance; Former Deputy Director-General: Sectors in the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition
More information to come
More information to come. In the meantime, if you have suggestions for speakers - researchers or policymakers - please get in touch with us at reimaginingtheeconomy@hks.harvard.edu.