Two professors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, as well as the University’s President, will participate in the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, from 27-31 January, 2010.
Richard Thaler, Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance, will participate in several panels on subjects as wide-reaching as the consequences of the financial crisis and breast cancer.
The organizing theme for the 40th Annual Meeting of political and civic thought leaders, business people and academics is a call to action and has the theme: "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign and Rebuild."
President Robert J. Zimmer, recently named to the Global University Leaders Forum, will be discussing issues pertaining to universities around the world, including expansion into developing nations, creating a global university system, and issues involving Africa and the environment. This panel will be chaired by Richard Levin, President of Yale and will feature 25 of the top universities in the world. President Zimmer is a contributor to the following panels: “Weak Signals” and “Groundbreaking discoveries in science and technology.”
Professor Thaler, acclaimed co-author of the best-selling Nudge, will talk about what went wrong with economics and how to fix it in “Rebuilding Economics” and “Bringing Sense to Irrational Markets.” In “What Every Person Should know about Breast Cancer” Thaler will extrapolate on his recent article in the New York Times which outlined why false-positive mammograms mean it isn’t necessarily a bad thing for women to be screened for cancer in their fifties instead of their forties.
Dr. Rajan, currently an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India, will talk about the global economic outlook in “What is the ‘New Normal’ for Global Growth?” and “Redesigning the International Monetary System”
If you are an accredited journalist at Davos this year, Richard Thaler is available for interview January 27-31 and Raghuram Rajan January 27-29. Please contact me to arrange an interview.
