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Daron Acemoglu, ECINEQ 2025 Keynote

“Can Technological Progress Build Shared Prosperity? Lessons from Power and Progress” ECINEQ 2025 Keynote with Daron Acemoglu, Chaired by Nora Lustig The Institute for International Economic Policy (https://iiep.gwu.edu) at the George Washington University is pleased to host Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics at MIT, and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, for a keynote address as part of the 11th Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). About the Speaker Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, and a Research Affiliate at MIT's newly established Blueprint Labs. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty. He is the author of six books, including New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (joint with James A. Robinson), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James A. Robinson), and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson). His academic work covers a wide range of areas, including political economy, economic development, economic growth, technological change, inequality, labor economics and economics of networks. Daron Acemoglu has received the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest in 2007, the Carnegie Fellowship in 2017, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2018, the Global Economy Prize in 2019, and the CME Mathematical and Statistical Research Institute prize in 2021. He was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2024 (with Co-Laureates Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson), the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in 2012, and the 2016 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Utrecht, the Bosporus University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, the University of Bath, Ecole Normale Superieure, Saclay Paris, and the London Business School. About the Chair - Nora Lustig Nora Lustig is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, the founding Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQ) at Tulane University and resident fellow with the Georgetown University Americas Institute. She is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Global Development, the Inter-American Dialogue, and the Paris School of Economics. Professor Lustig’s research is on economic development, inequality, and social policies with emphasis on Latin America. Her recent publication Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty (Volume 1 and Volume 2) is a step-by-step guide to assessing the impact of taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in developing countries. Prof. Lustig is the President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) and President Emeritus of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Inequality. In November 2021, she was recognized with the Tulane University Innovation Award. She received her doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. About ECINEQ (https://www.ecineq.org/) The ECINEQ conference provides an important international forum for researchers whose work focuses on economic inequality and related fields, bringing together a comprehensive exchange of perspectives. The 11th Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), is scheduled to take place in Washington DC from July 9 to July 11, 2025. This conference is co-hosted by the World Bank Group and George Washington University and will be held at the World Bank headquarters in central Washington.