Keynote Speakers & Presidential Address

Imran Rasul

Imran Rasul is a Professor of Economics at University College London, Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Co-Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy. His research spans labour economics, development, public economics, and the economics of the family, with a particular emphasis on field and natural experiments. He is currently President of the Royal Economic Society, and President-Elect of the European Economic Association.

Professor of Economics, University College London

Corinne Low

Corinne Low is an Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research spans labor economics, family economics, development, and experimental economics, with a particular emphasis on gender, discrimination, and inequality. Prior to academia, she worked at McKinsey & Company. Her first book, Having It All, was published in September 2025 by Flatiron.

Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

ESPE President Adeline Delavande

ESPE President Adeline Delavande is a professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics and at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research lies at the intersection of development, health, economics of the family and education, with a focus on how individuals form and act on subjective expectations. She is an elected Executive Board member of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics.

Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney & Nova School of Business and Economics