Keynote Speakers

Jim Adams is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. He studies industrial organization (in particular, the sources and uses of market power) and the European economy (in particular, European economic integration). (more info)

John Nye holds the Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is a specialist in European economic history and the new institutional economics. His current projects include research into the Anglo-French wine trade, the political economy of state intervention in trade, and detecting collusion in championship chess. (more info)

Lisa George is an applied empirical economist specializing in industrial organization and political economy. Her current research examines the economics of media markets. She joined the economics department at Hunter College in 2003 after two years as an assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Michigan State University. (more info)

Steve Ziliak is Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University, Chicago. He studies poverty and social policy, American economic history and rhetoric, and the history and philosophy of science and statistics. (more info)

Frank van Tongeren works at the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI) in the Netherlands. He is a specialist in international trade policy, food standards and their impact on development. (more info)