Rencontres Economiques d'Aix-en-Provence


The Rencontres Économiques d'Aix-en-Provence is an economic forum organized by Le Cercle des économistes since 2001, in the city of Aix-en-Provence, France.

Organization

Free and public, this forum brings together business leaders, academics, international organizations, NGOs, politicians and students for three days of discussion.
Les Rencontres Économiques d’Aix-en-Provence has as its goal to vitalize economic debate at the French, European and international levels. Organized each year around an economic and social theme, these three days of discussion aspire not only to contribute to a better public understanding of economic problems, but also to identify which policy alternatives should best be put into effect. Les Rencontres are also an exercise in intellectual exploration culminating at the end of the conference in a joint public statement by the members of Le Cercle des économistes.
The sessions and debates can be followed on the official website of les Rencontres Économiques d'Aix-en-Provence and then on its YouTube channel. Each year, over a hundred journalists from a dozen countries cover the event.

Activities

Participants

Since its creation, many personalities have participated to the Rencontres Économiques d'Aix-en-Provence. Among them:
- Academics: Olivier Blanchard, Suzanne Berger, Claudia-Maria Buch, Esther Duflo, Barry Eichengreen, Eugène Fama, Robert Fogel, Francis Fukuyama, Roberto Lavagna, Robert Merton, Dani Rodrik, Kenneth Rogoff, Nouriel Roubini, Peter Sloterdijk, Joseph Stiglitz, Laura Tyson, Cédric Villani, Zhu Min.
- Institutional bodies: justice Breyer, Mario Draghi, José Ángel Gurría, Christine Lagarde, Pascal Lamy, Cecilia Malmström, Pierre Moscovici, Jean-Claude Trichet.
- Politics: Madeleine Albright, Jörg Asmussen, Laurent Fabius, Elsa Fornero, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Alain Juppé, Bruno le Maire, Emmanuel Macron, David Miliband, Mario Monti, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Ana Palacio, Edouard Philippe, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Macky Sall, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Paul Wolfowitz, Ernesto Zedillo, Martin Ziguélé.
- Companies: Patricia Barbizet, Emmanuel Faber, Carlos Ghosn, Paul Hermelin, Philipp Hildebrand, Isabelle Kocher, Anne Lauvergeon, Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Patrick Pouyanné, Stéphane Richard, Tidjane Thiam, Hal Varian.
- Civil society: Luc Besson, Sharon Burrow, Reza Deghati, Yu Hua, Francis Huster, Étienne Klein, Mo Ibrahim, Thierry Marx, Erik Orsenna, Thomas Pesquet, Bertrand Piccard, Abderrahmane Sissako.

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