Events & Speakers

Speaker: Alberto Salvo Alberto Salvo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include Energy & Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Microeconomics in general. His current research falls under the broad theme: “Individual Behavior, the Environment, and Socioeconomic Outcomes.” He studies how the behavior and incentives of […]

Speaker: Ricardo Hausmann Ricardo Hausmann is Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Director of the Growth Lab at Harvard’s Center for International Development. He served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank from 1994-2000, and Minister of Planning of Venezuela from 1992-1993. His […]

Speaker: Johanna Mair Johanna Mair is Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School. Her research focuses on how novel organisational and institutional arrangements generate economic and social development. Mair is also the Distinguished Fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and […]

The Joint CICER and EMI Emerging Markets Research Day was held on strong>Friday, April 19 from 8:30AM</strong to 5:00PM in B10 Sage Hall Workshop Videos are available here: Morning session 9:00 – 12:15pm Afternoon session 1:30 – 5:00pm The Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) brings together scholars from Cornell and elsewhere to conduct […]

Speaker: Mathias Reynaert Mathias Reynaert is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His fields of interest are empirical industrial organization and environmental economics. The main focus of his research is the evaluation of taxes and regulations in the European […]

Speaker bio:David Molitor is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research explores factors that shape health and health care delivery in the United States, with a focus on physician behavior, technology adoption, and environmental adaptation. Abstract: We follow Medicare cohorts over time and space to estimate Hurricane Katrina’s long-run […]

Rob Cañizares' leadership experience in successfully building and transforming businesses around the world span more than two decades. In senior executive roles leading their successful globalization, he focused the formulation & implementation of strategy, and on building, coaching and developing multinational organizations. In this Jubilant stage of his career, he advises and mentors founders of […]

Rustom Desai is currently director, commercial operations, Precision Glass Solutions. Precision Glass Solutions was formed to establish Corning as a leading glass-based solutions player in the consumer electronics, Internet of Things and semiconductor industries. He is responsible for leading all commercial aspects of this newly formed business- including product line management, sales, customer service, application […]

Peter Cornelius is a Managing Director at AlpInvest Partners, which is part of the Investment Solutions group of The Carlyle Group. At AlpInvest Partners, he is responsible for analyzing the economic and financial environment for private equity markets and examining the implications for the firm’s strategic asset allocation. Mr. Cornelius joined AlpInvest Partners in 2005 […]