17. Sep 2024
Prof. Harald Gall, Prof. Josef Zweimüller, Tijen Onaran (ACI Consulting), Nora Teuwsen (ABB), Sandra Banholzer (RAUSCH)
Career and family. (Not) a problem?!
Life hacks for your future
Inspiring topics, top-class guests
With regular public events, we aim to promote dialog and exchange between science, business, and society. In the past, we have welcomed several Nobel laureates and other leading experts from various fields to public lectures. They brought important topics to the point, presented innovative ideas, opened new perspectives, and answered questions from the interested audience. When may we welcome you at one of our events?
Past events
11. Sep 2024
Nobel laureate Prof. James Heckman
The Economics of Inequality and Education
13. Sep 2023
Pulitzer Prize Winner Anne Applebaum
Autocracy Inc: How the World’s Authoritarians Work Together
29. Sep 2022
Prof. Dr. Anne Case and Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton
The Great Divide: Education and the Politics of Despair
29. Sep 2021
Prof. Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
Promoting Global Health and Fighting Poverty
25. Mar 2020
Mathilde Le Moigne (Department of Economics, University of Zurich)
“Pandemic and Economics” online event series, Part 4
“Global Trade in Times of Covid-19”
18. Mar 2020
Christian Ruff (Department of Economics, University of Zurich)
“Pandemic and Economics” online event series, Part 3
“Why We Comply with Social Norms”
11. Mar 2020
Teodora Boneva (Department of Economics, University of Zurich)
“Pandemic and Economics” online event series, Part 2
“The Covid-19 Inequality Project: Impact on the Labor Market”
4. Mar 2020
Tobias Straumann (University of Zurich)
“Pandemic and Economics” online event series, Part 1
“Eine Krise wie keine andere”
28. Nov 2019
Prof. Ralph Ossa (Department of Economics UZH)
Keynote zu Handelskriegen
Event für UZH-Alumni, London
18. Oct 2019
Urban Economic Conference (in cooperation with the NOMIS Foundation)
Urban Economics, a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that combines economics with geography, and related academic disciplines including sociology, political science, public health, and climatology
20. Sep 2019
Jahressymposium (Marlene Porsche Graduate School of Neuroeconomics)
Wie Menschen finanzielle, moralische und soziale Werte in ihre Entscheidungen einbeziehen und ausbalancieren
Keynote Lectures von Prof. Giuseppe Ugazio (University of Geneva) und Prof. Cendri Hutcherson (University of Toronto)
13. May 2019
Prof. Penny Goldberg (Yale University, Chef-Ökonomin Weltbank)
Trade and Development: The Next Chapter
26. Mar 2018
Manuel Sager (DEZA)
Was sind die aktuellen Herausforderungen für die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit?
16. Mar 2018
Prof. Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
Keynote Lecture
CCWD Annual Conference 2018 on “Child Health – Children’s Life Journeys and Critical Inflection Points”
16. Mar 2017
Richard David Precht (Philosoph, Publizist und Bestsellerautor)
Populismus, Post‐Truth, Polemik – was geschieht mit unseren Werten?
17. Sep 2015
Prof. Richard H. Thaler (University of Chicago)
Misbehaving – The Making of Behavioral Economics
30. Oct 2014
Prof. Robert H. Frank (Cornell University)
Efficiency, Morality, and Freedom
10. Apr 2014
Richard Layard (London School of Economics)
What makes people happy / unhappy?
26. Sep 2013
Jakob von Uexküll (Stifter und Gründer des Right Livelihood Award)
Bracht es gute Menschen für eine gute Gesellschaft?
11. Sep 2013
Robert J. Gordon (Professor der Wirtschaftswissenschaften)
Economic growth in the West. Can innovation save us from the six headwinds?
10. Apr 2013
Prof. Dan Ariely (Duke University)
The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty
21. Mar 2013
Richard David Precht (Philosoph, Publizist und Bestsellerautor)
Wem gehört die Bildung?
21. Mar 2013
Nobelpreisträger James J. Heckman
Economics of Inequality & Human Development