Academy of Behavioral Economics 2017
Strategic Leadership in the Conflict Between Regulation and Growth
Speakers
Armin Falk
Germany
Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Economics and Neuroscience and the Laboratory for Experimental Economics at the University of Bonn. Falk studied economics, philosophy and history, and obtained a doctorate in 1998 under the supervision of Ernst Fehr at the University of Zurich, where he also qualified as a professor in 2003.
Dan Goldstein
USA
Principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York. Goldstein researches online behaviour and human decision theory. He holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Chicago and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and management events.
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.
Justus Haucap
Germany
Professor Justus Haucap is the director of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf. Between 2006 and 2014 he served as a member of the German Monopolies Commission, which he also chaired for four years (2008-2012). Professor Haucap is a member of both the German Academy of Technical Sciences (acatech) and the Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Rasoul Jalali
Switzerland
Rasoul Jalali is general manager at Uber Switzerland and responsible for the German, Austrian and Swiss market. Previously he worked as a consultant with The Bosten Consulting Group and Arthur D. Little.
Katja Rost
Switzerland
Katja Rost is Full Professor for sociology, in particular economic/organizational sociology and Adj. Professor for business administration at the University Zürich. She was Full Professor for business administration, in particular strategic and international management at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Assistant Professor for organizational sociology at the University Mannheim.
Rolf Dörig
Switzerland
Rolf Dörig became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swiss Life Holding in May 2009. In 2002 he assumed the role of Chairman Switzerland of Credit Suisse. Following his move to Swiss Life, Rolf Dörig held the positions of Group Chief Executive Officer from November 2002 to May 2008 and Delegate of the Board of Directors from May 2008 to May 2009.
Rudolf Minsch
Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Minsch is chief economist and member of the executive board of economiesuisse. He heads the division for economic policy, education, and health. Rudolf Minsch is visiting professor for economic policy at the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur, where he was full a professor of economics until taking up his employment with economiesuisse.
Anita Roth
Switzerland
Anita Roth is a city planner whose work focuses on planning, policy and economic development. As Airbnb’s Head of Policy Research, Anita works to quantify the various impacts and benefits that Airbnb’s community has in cities around the world. Prior to joining Airbnb, Anita worked as a Senior Economist for AECOM, a planning and engineering consulting firm. Anita holds a Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. from Cornell University.
Jean-Robert Tyran
Austria
Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna and director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics. He researches the question of how limited rationality and social preferences influence the economy, society and the state – and vice versa.
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.
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.
Axel A. Weber
Switzerland
Axel A. Weber was elected to the Board of Directors of UBS AG in 2012 and of UBS Group AG in 2014. He is Chairman of the Bord of Directors of both UBS AG and UBS Group AG. He has chaired the Governance and Nominating Committee since 2012 and became Chairperson of the Corporate Culture and Responsibility Committee in 2013.
Boris Zürcher
Switzerland
Boris Zürcher is Head of the Labour Directorate at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO. Previously he was Chief Economist and Director of BAK Basel Economics AG. 2007 to 2012 Chief Economist and Deputy Director at Avenir Suisse, Think Tank for Economic and Social Issues. 2002 to 2007 economic policy consultant to Federal Councillors Pascal Couchepin, Joseph Deiss and Doris Leuthard in the Federal Department of Economic Affairs.
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