CFGE Sustainability Research Café

The aim of the Café is to discuss current economic and societal challenges in order to explore opportunities for cross-disciplinary research. The Café will open with a talk by Dr Harald Stieber, European Parliament, who will address the question “Why we should avoid looking for "faster horses" this time around: How marginal gains and local search strategies can make us miss the biggest economic opportunities of the climate transition”. An open discussion and networking session will follow.

This session will take place at Brookfield, School of Business, Drawing Room (0.09), 09:30am - 11:30am,

Speaker Bio:

Dr Harald Stieber is a macroeconomist in the Economic Governance Unit of the European Parliament. As a macro-modeller he has 24 years of professional experience applying economic policy analysis in academia, national administration (ministry of finance), OECD and the European Commission. He has contributed to the development of the EU's crisis management toolbox and has worked on the economic analysis of more than 30 pieces of EU legislation including the financial derivatives regulation (EMIR), the mortgage credit directive, the FF55 package, and the corporate due diligence directive. His work on reporting technologies has been instrumental for the development of the Commission strategy for supervisory reporting.