WHEN
03 March I 09:30 - 10:45
WHERE
Silver Hall
TOPICS
Industrial Strategy
WHEN
03 March I 09:30 - 10:45
WHERE
Silver Hall
TOPICS
Industrial Strategy
In recent years, proactive industrial policy has returned to the forefront of economic strategy. But today’s challenges demand more than traditional efficiency-based tools. Governments are now expected to balance competitiveness, security, sovereignty and strategic autonomy with economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Navigating this complexity requires faster, more agile decision-making and a clear-eyed assessment of trade-offs between competing goals. At the same time, new general-purpose technologies such as artificial intelligence are reshaping the economy itself, transforming how knowledge is created and how work is organised within firms.
How can governments overcome this challenge? And how can the EU design an industrial strategy that effectively combines trade, competition and digital policies with a more assertive industrial approach? This plenary session brings together leading economists and policymakers to explore how sharper governance and bold new economic thinking can help the EU shape its industrial future.
Speakers
Pierre-Alexandre
Balland
Moderator
Chief Data Scientist, CEPS
Ricardo
Hausmann
Director of the Growth Lab and Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Diane
Coyle
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge
Martin
Raiser
Senior Representative for European Economic Cooperation, World Bank
Daniel
Gros
Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow at CEPS Director of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University
Alicia
Herrero
Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis, Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
George
Papaconstantinou
Professor at Florence School of Transnational Governance, EUI
Pierre-Alexandre
Balland
Moderator
Chief Data Scientist, CEPS
Ricardo
Hausmann
Director of the Growth Lab and Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Diane
Coyle
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge
Martin
Raiser
Senior Representative for European Economic Cooperation, World Bank
Daniel
Gros
Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow at CEPS Director of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University
Alicia
Herrero
Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis, Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
George
Papaconstantinou
Professor at Florence School of Transnational Governance, EUI
