Keynote Speakers

Prof. Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University (online)

We are honored to welcome Professor Nicholas (Nick) Bloom as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2027. Nicholas Bloom is the William D. Eberle Professor in Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on working from home, management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury, McKinsey & Company, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He holds a BA from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from University College London. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous distinctions, including the Guggenheim and Sloan Fellowships, the Bernácer Prize, the European Investment Bank Prize, the Frisch Medal, the Kauffman Medal, and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. His research has appeared in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Management Science, and Journal of Public Economics, among others.

Prof. Harris Dellas, University of Surrey

We are honored to welcome Professor Harris Dellas as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2027. Harris Dellas is Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, UK, and serves as President of the Karl Brunner Institute in Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and has held academic positions at institutions including the University of Bern, Catholic University of Louvain, University of Bonn, and University of Maryland. His research focuses on International Money and Finance, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics. His work has appeared in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Journal of Political Economy, among others.

Prof. Marcelo C. Medeiros, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

We are honored to welcome Professor Marcelo C. Medeiros as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2027. Marcelo holds a BA, MSc, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), focusing on Statistics, Optimization, and Control Theory. His research area encompasses econometrics and data science, with a particular interest in the intersection of econometric/statistical theory and advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence tools. He concentrates on theoretical developments and empirical applications in finance, macroeconomics, forecasting, and public policy evaluation, among other fields. In 2022, Marcelo was elected a Fellow of the Society of Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods), the Journal of Financial Econometrics, and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. Previously, Marcelo also held the position of Associate Editor for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and the International Journal of Forecasting, among others. Marcelo has published over 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including the Annals of Statistics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Econometric Theory, the International Journal of Forecasting, and the Journal of Banking and Finance.

Prof. Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph

We are honored to welcome Professor Thanasis Stengos as a keynote speaker at AMEF 2027. Thanasis Stengos is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance 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 his Ph.D. from Queen's University. His research interests include econometric theory and applications, nonparametric methods, empirical growth, and environmental economics. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Empirical Economics, and Economics Letters, and as Co-Editor of the Review of Economic Analysis. His research has appeared in journals including the Review of Economic Studies, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, and Journal of Economic Growth, among others.