This Lunch Briefing will be introduced and moderated by Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute, and followed by questions and answers.

The world is adjusting to President Trump’s second term in office. This Lunch Briefing will discuss how the new administration’s policies are reshaping the US economy and sending ripples across the global economic order. It will focus on the implications for the provision of global public goods, Europe and Emerging and Developing Economies.

Ugo Panizza is Professor of International Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development at the Geneva Graduate Institute where he also serves as Head of the Department of Economics. He is a Vice President and Fellow of CEPR and Fellow of the Fondazione Einaudi, Director of the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, Editor in Chief of Oxford Open Economics, and Deputy Director of the Center for Finance and Development.  Before joining the Geneva Graduate Institute, he was Chief of the Debt and Finance Analysis Unit at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and a Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. He also worked at the World Bank and taught at the American University of Beirut and the University of Torino. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University and a Laurea in Political Sciences from the University of Torino. 

Beatrice Weder di Mauro holds the André Hoffmann Chair in Climate and Nature Finance and is co-director of the Hoffmann Center at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She is President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Visiting Professor at INSEAD. She has served as a high-level advisor on economic policy to governments and international institutions for three decades. Her research focuses on international macroeconomics, financial crises, as well as on climate and nature finance, including the European Commission, IMF, World Bank, ECB, and Deutsche Bundesbank. Recently she was a member of Switzerland’s COVID-19 economic task force, and part of the expert group on financial reforms after the Credit Suisse collapse. She currently sits on the board of Bosch in Stuttgart.

Ugo Panizza and Beatrice Weder di Mauro recently collaborated on the new CEPR eBook, The Economic Consequences of The Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment, along with Gary Gensler and Simon Johnson. The book brings together many experts to "explore how the new administration’s policies are reshaping the US economy and sending ripples across the global economic order.