Prof. Harris Dellas, University of Surrey

We are honored to welcome Professor Harris Dellas as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2026. Harris Dellas is currently a Professor at the University of Surrey, UK, and serves as the President of the Karl Brunner Institute, Switzerland. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, he has held various prestigious positions, including roles at the University of Bern, Catholic University of Louvain, University of Bonn, University of Maryland, among others. His extensive research has contributed significantly to the fields of International Money and Finance, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics. His research featured in some of the most prestigious journals including the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Political Economy, among others.

Assoc. Prof. Rigissa Megalokonomou (online)

We are honored to welcome Associate Professor Rigissa Megalokonomou as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2026. Rigissa Megalokonomou obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick in 2016 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, a Research Fellow at IZA, a Research Affiliate at CESifo and the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Life Course Centre, and an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Her research lies in applied microeconomics, focusing on policy-relevant questions in education, migration, and labor economics, with a niche in the use of novel, often self-collected data to address original, causal, and policy-relevant questions. In November 2024, she was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant (AUD $498,891, three years of funding) for her project “Women in STEM: The Longer-Term Effects of Teachers” (sole CI DP). She serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Population Economics and as an Associate Editor for the Economic Society of Australia’s journals, Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy and Economic Record. Her research has been published in leading international journals including the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Economic Journal, PNAS, Journal of Human Resources, European Economic Review, and the Journal of Public Economics, among others.

Prof. Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph

We are honored to welcome Professor Thanasis Stengos as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2026. Thanasis Stengos is a Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph, where he held a University Research Chair between 2014 and 2019. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Ph.D. from Queen's University. His areas of expertise revolve around econometric theory and application, nonparametric methods, empirical growth, and empirical environmental studies. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Empirical Economics, Economics Letters and he is co-editor of the Review of Economic Analysis. His research has been published in journals including the Review of Economic Studies, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, The Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Economic Growth, among others.