Keynotes

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné is Professor of Economics at Skema Business School. Previously, he was for several years, and successively, Professor at INSEAD, the École polytechnique de Montréal and HEC Montréal, and adjunct Professor at École polytechnique-Paris. He holds a PhD from Yale University. His main research areas are the economics of organization, the economics of risk and uncertainty, environmental economics and industrial organization, and the management of innovation. His publications can be found in major journals such as Econometrica, Management Science, the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and the Journal of Regulatory Economics. His recent work focuses on incentive compensation and responsible business, CSR and artificial intelligence, the environmental goods and services industry, and innovation-support systems. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the European Economic Association. In 2006, he won (with co-author Pauline Barrieu of the London School of Economics) the Finance and Sustainability European Research Award for the article “On Precautionary Policies” published in Management Science. In 2021, he was made a Fellow of the Louis Bachelier Institute. From 2008 to 2019, he was a member of the Commission de l’éthique en science et en technologie (CEST), which advises the Government of Québec on ethical matters raised by the deployment of new technologies.

Christophe André 

Christophe André is a Senior economist in the Structural Policy Analysis division of the OECD Economics Department. He holds a Master’s degree in economics from University Paris X-Nanterre. Since joining the OECD in 1997, he has worked on many topics, including macroeconomic analysis, modelling and forecasting, fiscal and monetary policy, as well as health and housing economics. He has contributed to several editions of the OECD Economic Outlook and co-authored OECD Economic Surveys on Finland, Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom. His main current research interests are productivity, ageing and housing economics.

Francesco Venturini

Francesco Venturini,PhD in Economics, is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Urbino (Italy) and fellow at NIESR (UK) and Research Affiliate at CIRCLE (SE). His current research deals with the role of innovation and technological progress on economic growth and income distribution. His papers have been published on the: BE Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), Economica, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Economic Systems, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, Industrial & Corporate Change, Industry & Innovation, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation, Information Economics and Policy, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Technology Transfer, Journal of Policy Modelling, Oxford Economic Papers, Research Policy, Review of Income and Wealth, Small Business Economics (and other). Francesco participated to several research projects for various European Commission departments (EPKE, EUKLEMS, Jean Monnet, European Competitiveness Report, H2020-Untangled; H2020-WeLar) and for national governments (UK DSIT, Scotland’s government). Currently, Francesco also serves as a member of the Ifo-World Economic Survey expert group (Germany) and Fellow for the Research Laboratory on Finance and Growth, University of Milan (Italy).

Margaret Kyle

Margaret Kyle (PhD, MIT Economics) studies innovation, productivity and competition. She has a number of papers examining R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically the role of geographic and academic spillovers; the firm-specific and policy determinants of the diffusion of new products; generic competition; and the use of markets for technology. Recent work examines the effect of trade and IP policies on the level, location and direction of R&D investment and competition. She also works on issues of innovation and access to therapies in developing countries. Her papers have been published in various journals of economics, strategy, health policy and competition policy,  including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Management Science, Review of Industrial Organization, and Antitrust Law Journal.

Margaret currently holds the Chair in Markets for Technology and Intellectual Property at MINES ParisTech and is a member of the Conseil National de Productivité in France. She is an associate editor at the International Journal of Industrial Organization and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy. She previously held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, London Business School and the Toulouse School of Economics. She has also been a visiting scholar at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the University of Hong Kong and Northwestern University.