How Can Europe Achieve More Competitiveness and Resilience?
- Economic development in Europe is currently affected by both cyclical weakness and medium to long term structural challenges.
- The long term challenges have been known for some time, but not managed well: demographic change, digitization and climate change.
- The pandemic and the Russian attack on Ukraine force Europe to respond to growing trade frictions and geopolitical tensions and to spend more on defence.
- To preserve competitiveness Europe needs a consistent economic policy strategy which balances new budgetary priorities with the need to improve conditions for private investment.
- This agenda includes a redesign of the green deal, a greater focus on the provision of European public goods and a deepening of the internal market.
Opening Keynote: Thursday, 5 December 2024 I 09:15 – 10:30
This keynote session will be held in English language.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest
ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich e.V. I President
born in 1968, is President of the Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich e.V., Managing Director of CESifo GmbH, Professor of Economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
He is, among others, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the European Academy of Sciences, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft (Kronberger Kreis) and the Stiftung Familienunternehmen. From 2018 to 2021 he was President of the IIPF (International Institute of Public Finance e.V.). In 2013, he was honored with the Gustav Stolper Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik, and in 2019, with the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize for 2018. In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In July 2023, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Maximilian for Science and Art.
His research areas are economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy, European integration.
Prior to his appointment in Munich, he was a professor at the Universities of Cologne (2001-2008), Oxford (2008-2013) and Mannheim (2013-2016).
He is the author of books and has written many commentaries and name articles on current economic policy issues in national and international journals. He also writes for newspapers such as Handelsblatt, FAZ, Die Zeit, SZ, Wirtschafts-Woche, Financial Times or Wall Street Journal.