Midwest International Economic Development Conference
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- ACES Office of International Programs
- Location
- Illini Union-1401 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801
- Date
- Mar 28, 2025 - Mar 29, 2025 All Day
- Speaker
- Conference Speakers
- Cost
- https://publish.illinois.edu/mwiedc-uiuc/registration-information/
- Registration
- Registration
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- 141
- Originating Calendar
- ACE Seminars
All conference events take place at Illini Union located at 1401 W. Green Street Urbana, IL 61801. The program link is below.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University and the founder of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He conducts field experiments in countries such as Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, and Nepal, focusing on the promotion of welfare-enhancing innovations and behaviors and the scaling of effective development interventions. His research has been covered by major global media outlets and published in the most prestigious journals across disciplines such as Science, Nature, Econometrica, American Economic Review, BMJ, Nature: Medicine, Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, Marketing Science, Demography, and more. He received a Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and was named to Vox’s list of 50 scientists building a better future in 2022.