Our excellent community of distinguished researchers and economists took part in this high-level conference, and we welcomed many leading  figures, including Philippe Aghion, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Olivier Blanchard, Bertrand Dumont, Barry Eichengreen, Arancha González, Sylvie Goulard, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Pablo Hernandez de Cos, Maurice Obstfeld, Thomas Philippon, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Lucrezia Reichlin, Carmen Reinhart, Isabelle Schnabel, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, to name a few. CEPR was also honoured with a dinner speech by Mario Draghi at the special dinner on Sunday night. You can read his speech as apublished policy insight here.

The core academic programme included over 150 top economists from around the world who presented their groundbreaking research on European economic architecture, international macroeconomics and finance, international trade, macroeconomics and growth, climate, sustainable finance, labour economics, inequality, asset pricing, household finance, development economics, fintech, economic history, competition policy, industrial organization, organizational economics, media plurality, public economics, ageing and longevity, banking and corporate finance, monetary economics, political economy, policies for peace, AI, and geoeconomics.