Academy of Behavioral Economics 2022
The Power of Perspective-Taking: Tested Tools For a Post-Pandemic World, 4 May 2022
Speakers
Felix Oberholzer-Gee
USA
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of "Better, Simpler Strategy". Oberholzer-Gee is a specialist in the digital transformation of modern companies. After completing his doctorate at the University of Zurich, he became a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Raffaella Sadun
USA
Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Sadun's research focuses on the economics of productivity, management and organizational change. Her research documents the economic and cultural determinants of managerial choices, as well as their implications for organizational performance in both the private and public sector.
Sule Alan
Turkey
Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, Florence and at Bilkent University, Ankara. Alan is a board member of the Innovation in Government Initiative and co-chair of the Humanitarian Initiative at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Her research interests include education, migrant integration, gender and household behavior. She is also a co-editor of the Economic Journal.
Gozde Corekcioglu Ishakoglu
Turkey
Assistant Professor of Economics at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. Corekcioglu Ishakoglu researches how Culture affects Economic outcomes, and works on Gender Inequality, and Political Economy.
Hans-Joachim Voth
Switzerland
Professor of Economics and Scientific Director, UBS Center for Economics in Society, University of Zurich. Voth’s research interests include Cultural Economics, Long-Run Growth, Sovereign Debt, Asset Market Volatility, Living Standards, and Labor Supply. His work has been published in four of the top 5 journals in economics, as well as in books and field journals.
Matthias Sutter
Germany
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Professor of Experimental Economics at the Universities of Innsbruck and Cologne. Sutter is one of Europe’s most well-known researchers on the subject. His research focuses heavily on group decision making and the question of how economic decision-making behaviour changes in adolescence.
Ernst Fehr
Switzerland
Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economics. Fehr is director of the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich and a member of the board of directors of FehrAdvice & Partners. The “most influential Swiss economist” (NZZ) was recipient of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize in 2013.
Robert Wagner
Switzerland
Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Executive Board, Credit Suisse.
Marina Weilenmann
Switzerland
Director and Head of Change Portfolio Management, Credit Suisse. Weilenmann has got more than 12 years of experience as a qualified professional and leader in the areas of management, strategy, risk, regulatory & compliance, operations and project management in Zurich and London.
Elena Narciss
Switzerland
Assistant Vice President in Change Projects, Credit Suisse. Narciss has worked on a number of global projects, such as the bank's transition to newer, more agile and hybrid ways of working.
Karl Heinz Strauss
Austria
CEO, Porr AG, one of the largest Austrian construction companies, which is internationally active in all sectors of the building industry. Strauss was ranked tenth on the list of the most influential Austrian managers by the Austrian magazine "Industriemagazin" in 2020.
Birgit Wagner
Austria
Head of Corporate Development at Porr, one of the largest Austrian construction groups. Wagner is also the managing director of Strauss Property Management. The economist and property trustee has more than 20 years of top management experience at ÖBB, Telekom Austria and Nokia Austria, among others.
Mario Rauch
Austria
CEO, Jö Bonus Club. The multi-partner programme across retailers and industries combines all bonus systems in Austria in one customer card.
Gerhard Fehr
Switzerland
CEO and Executive Behavioral Designer at FehrAdvice & Partners. Fehr advises politicians, board members, CEOs and top managers of large companies. Fehr graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in business administration and has more than 10 years of management experience.
Lukas Jezler
Switzerland
Lukas Jezler, CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies, Rüschlikon/Zurich.
Moderator
Florian Inhauser
Switzerland
Journalist and moderator. Florian Inhauser presents the main newscast at Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, SRF and he is also the anchor of the foreign news magazine «#SRFglobal». With a master in history and anglistics he speaks English fluently. He has also an excellent reputation as an international correspondent, covering conflicts and crises around the globe.
Evening moderator
Marion Flatz-Mäser
Switzerland
Correspondent Switzerland and Liechtenstein, ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company)
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