Economics Speakers

A.K Pradeep

Dr. Pradeep, author of The Buying Brain, is the founder of the world's leader company in the fast-growing neuromarketing research field. Before this he was the founder and managing parter of a privately-held California company specialising in governance consulting, and customising and applying GE best practices to multiple industry sectors. He is also the founder of a company formed to provide web-based corporate governance platforms for corporate boards of directors. He was presented with the Great Minds award by the Advertising Research Foundation, the group's top prize. He was also named 'Person of the Year' by the USA India Business Summit for his 'impressive innovations and achievements in the field of neuromarketing.'Dr. Pradeep has been published in numerous scientific journals. He is a frequent speaker and panelist.

Adam Ferrier

Adam Ferrier is a leading Australian consumer psychologist, brand strategist, and founder of Thinkerbell-an agency known for blending creativity with behavioural science. Thinkerbell was named the world's top creative agency in 2021 by BestAds and won Mumbrella's Full Service, Creative, and PR Agency of the Year titles in the same year. Adam is the author of The Advertising Effect and Stop Listening to the Customer, and a regular TV panellist on shows like Gruen Transfer. A Cannes Gold Lion and Effie winner, Adam's speaking style fuses behavioural economics, creativity, and psychology to deliver powerful, unconventional strategies that drive real change.

Adam Salzer

Adam Salzer, Director/Greater China at PricewaterhouseCoopers, is an economist by education and practice, with 20 years experience in high level strategic and management consultancy throughout Asia Pacific. Mr. Salzer has extensive experience in Greater China and was responsible for establishing the first HR joint venture consulting group between a Western HR company and a Chinese government ministry in the early 1990s.

Alan Kohler AM

Alan Kohler AM is one of Australia's most respected financial journalists and commentators, with more than 50 years covering the economy, markets and business. A longtime ABC finance presenter, former editor of the AFR and The Age, and co-founder of Eureka Report, he brings clarity, context and humour to complex economic trends. As a keynote speaker, Alan helps leaders make informed decisions amid uncertainty.

Alex Sion

Alex Sion is a fintech pioneer with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation in financial services. He has held key leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, Citi, and fintech private equity firm Motive Partners, and now leads the financial services vertical at Blend, delivering AI-driven solutions. A co-founder of Moven, one of the first Neo-Banks, Alex has shaped the evolution of digital banking and AI-powered finance. A sought-after keynote speaker, he brings deep expertise and forward-thinking insights, helping organizations navigate the next wave of disruption and innovation in the financial sector.

Alexander Blass

Alexander Blass is an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur and innovator, and serves as President and CEO of an executive consulting and training firm based near Washington, DC. Now 36, he is the youngest grand prize winner ever of the Daily Record's Top Innovator of the Year Award, which credited him with 'revolutionizing charitable giving'. He is the inventor and founder of person-to-person giving technology on the Internet. Frequently interviewed by the media and the subject of several cover stories, he is a highly sought after keynote speaker, Master Class presenter, invited expert and consultant in the United States and around the world. He enjoys sharing his vast expertise, insight, passion, vision and fascinating experiences with business audiences, associations, non-profits, charitable organizations, and university students. He is the guest keynote speaker at many of the world's most prestigious conferences on leadership, innovation, and creativity, including IBM's Innovate in India (2,000 people), EPIC in New York City, and the Abu Dhabi Innovation Forum in the United Arab Emirates, to name a few.

Allan Fels

Professor Allan Fels is an Australian economist, lawyer and public servant. He was most widely known in his role as chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) from its inception in 1995 until 30 June 2003. Upon his retirement from the ACCC he became foundation Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), a position which he continues to hold. He is also currently an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University, a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and a consultant to law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler.

Allie Mooney

Allison Mooney is an international inspirational conference speaker and trainer. A business owner who combines business knowledge and anecdotal life experience in her presentations and training sessions. Allison's communication skills have seen her develop as a popular and high demand presenter of seminars. She first came to be noticed when Ansett New Zealand (Airline) first set up their opera ...

Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen is a distinguished economist-philosopher and a 1998 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences. He is best known for his contributions to welfare economics and his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism. From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, becoming the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He is also a former honorary president of Oxfam. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. As of 2009 he has had over 80 honorary doctorates from several world renowned universities worldwide.

Andrew Gawith

Andrew is the founder or leading independent economic forecasting business - a company that's well known for its stimulating and often provocative views; respected for its independent economic advice; and its ability to communicate with businesses. Andrew has an extensive and deep knowledge of the New Zealand economy. The range of clients and tasks covered include analysis of manufacturing, building, automotive, farming, transportation, electricity, trade policy, finance and retailing. Andrew's team of six economists deliver economic analysis and forecast services to leading New Zealand companies, banks and key government ministries including Treasury, NZTE and Labour.

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