Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (Political Incentives and Development Outcomes) 2018 | The World Bank Group | 25 June 2018 | World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 USA

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), organized by the World Bank Development Economics (DEC) Vice Presidency, is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge on development. The conference aims to promote the exchange of cutting-edge research among researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners. The next conference will take place on June 25-26, 2018 at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. The theme of the conference will be "Political Incentives and Development Outcomes."

2018 Speakers

Daron Acemoglu
MIT Economics

Luigi Zingales
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Farzana Afridi
Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn)

Simon Alder
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kaushik Basu
Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University and former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank (2012–16)

François Bourguignon
Emeritus Professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics

Maurizio Bussolo
World Bank Chief Economist Office for Europe and Central Asia

Tito Cordella
Adviser in the Office of the Chief Economist at the World Bank

Cesi Cruz
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia

Aaditya Dar
PhD candidate at the Department of Economics, The George
Washington University

Jishnu Das
Lead Economist in the Development Research Group (Human Development Team) at the World Bank

Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
Director of Research at the World Bank

Shanta Devarajan
Senior Director for Development Economics (DEC) and Acting Chief Economist of the World Bank Group

William Easterly
Professor of Economics at New York University and Codirector of the NYU Development Research Institute

Leopoldo Fergusson
Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia

Ana Margarida Fernandes
Trade and International Integration Unit of the Development Research Group at the World Bank

Ray Fisman
Slater Family Chair in Behavioral Economics at Boston University. Previously

Caterina Gennaioli
Lecturer in Economics at the School of Business and Management

Siddharth Eapen George
PhD student at Harvard University interested in development economics and political economy

Charles R. Hankla
Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta

Philip Keefer
Principal Advisor, Institutions for Development, at the Inter American Development Bank

Stuti Khemani
Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank

Jeroen Klomp
Professor, Netherlands Defense Academy

Katrina Kosec
Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Evan Plous Kresch
Assistant Professor of Economics at Oberlin College

Anne Krueger i
Senior Research Professor of International Economics at the School for Advanced International Studies

Rachid Laajaj
Economics at the University of Los Andes in Bogota

Daniel Lederman
Lead Economist and Deputy Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank Group

Yue Li
Senior Economist at the World Bank

Luis F. López-Calva
Practice Manager of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice (Europe and Central Asia) at the World Bank

Adeel Malik
Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a University Research Lecturer in Development Economics at the University of Oxford

Ghazala Mansuri
Poverty and Equity Global Practice and is also associated with the Development Research Group at the World Bank

Luis Martinez
Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago

Charity Troyer Moore
India Research Director for Evidence for Policy Design at the Harvard Kennedy Schoo

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Associate professor at the Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute-Delhi

Oyebola Okunogbe
World Bank Development Research Group as an Economist in 2016

Oscar Perelló
Minister of Finance of Chile

Jan H. Pierskalla
Associate Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University

Neeraj Prasad
PhD candidate at the Fletcher School, Tufts University

Ishita Rajani
Associate at Analysis Group

Bob Rijkers
Senior economist in the Trade and International Integration Unit of the Development Research Group

Daniel Rogger
Research Economist in the Impact Evaluation Unit of the Development Research Group

Nelson Ruiz
ETH-Zurich Public Policy Group

Thiago Scot
PhD student at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

Joana Silva
Senior Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean

Cheng Sun
Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua school of Management of Peking University since July 2015

Diego A. Vera-Cossio
Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C

Shaoda Wang
PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley

Deborah Wetzel
World Bank Senior Director for Governance since 2016

Guo Xu
Assistant Professor in Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business

Luigi Zingales
Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business