Keynote Speakers

Professor Elisabetta Iossa
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
E-mail: Elisabetta.Iossa@uniroma2.it

Elisabetta Iossa is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Research Fellow at the CEPR (London) and CMPO (Bristol). She also worked for 10 years at Brunel University in West London and for two years at ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels. In recent years, Elisabetta’s research has covered a number of theoretical issues related to public procurement, public private partnerships and regulation of public utilities. Her papers have been published in the Economic Journal, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, the Rand Journal of Economics, among others. Elisabetta has worked as economic expert adviser for a number of institutions, including the UK Competition Commission, the Office of Fair Trading, the Financial Service Authority, International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Bank.

Doctor Marieke Huysentruyt
Assistant Professor
SITE — Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
E-mail: Marieke.Huysentrut@hhs.se

Marieke Huysentruyt is co-founder and partner responsible for R&D strategy and activities at Oksigen Lab.

Marieke is an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SITE) and a Faculty Fellow at the London School of Economics. Her main research fields are poverty, and behavioural and organisational economics.

Marieke has a Bio-Engineering Degree from the Catholic University of Leuven, an MSc. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University, and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. She has been invited to spend time at Harvard University and the Santa Fe Institute as a visiting scholar, and collaborated with numerous development NGOs e.g. in Kenya, Mali, the Netherlands and the UK.

Marieke has been awarded various academic awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, British Council Scholarship, and LSE-Columbia University Collaborative Research Grant.