Prof Harris Dellas, University of Surrey

We are honored to welcome Professor Harris Dellas as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2025. 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.

Prof Paul Elhorst, University of Groningen

We are honored to welcome Professor Paul Elhorst as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2025. Paul Elhorst is currently a Professor of Spatial Econometrics at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D at the University of Amsterdam and served as Editor-in-Chief of Spatial Economic Analysis during the period 2015-2023. In 2023 he was awarded the Jean Paelinck Prize for Distinguished Sustained Scholarship in Regional Science Methods. His research featured in some of the most prestigious journals including Political Analysis, Journal of Regional Science, Research Policy, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Surveys, Transportation Research Part A, Journal of Peace Research, Regional Science & Urban Economics, among others.

Prof Charles I. Jones, Stanford University (online)

We are honored to welcome Professor Charles I. Jones as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2025. Charles I. Jones is currently a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University holidng a PhD in Economics from M.I.T., USA. Currently serves as a member of the AEA Honors and Awards Committee, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and Co-Editor of Econometrica. His research featured in some of the most prestigious journals including the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Review, Annual Review of Economics, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics, among others. He is also the author of influential books such as Macroeconomics and Introduction to Economic Growth (co-authored with Dietrich Vollrath).

Prof Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph

We are honored to welcome Professor Thanasis Stengos as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2025. 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.