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GENDER AND ECONOMIC INSECURITY

Event organized by the University of Luxembourg under the high patronage of H.R.H. The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

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3th March 2025
15:00 -16:30 CET

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15:00 – 15:05

Institutional Welcome - Prof. Dr. Katalin Ligeti Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance

15:05 – 15:30

Keynote Speech by Prof. Andrew Clark

15:30 – 16:30

Panel Session with

• A sociologist: Prof. Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics
• An economist: Prof. Andrew Clark, Paris School of Economics
• A sustainable development specialist: Dr. Marina Andrijevic, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
• A social geographer: Dr. Antoine Paccoud, LISER

16:30 – 17:00

Q&A session and conclusion

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Organizers:

Prof Skerdilajda Zanaj
Prof. Conchita D’Ambrosio
Interview Prof. Vögele
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Tanya Beckett

Broadcaster, Public speaker, Communications Advisor – Moderator

Tanya Beckett has worked in broadcasting and the media for over 20 years. She started out at the FT, then went to work for CNBC, Sky News, CNN and since 1998, the BBC.

She has worked on a variety of programmes on BBC World News, the BBC News Channel, Radio 4 and BBC1 and BBC2 including The Inquiry, Our World, Working Lunch, Today, Newsnight and World Business Report. She also spent three years living in and reporting from New York for the BBC.

Tanya also works with the World Bank, Chatham House, the Somali Government and the British Foreign Office in matters relating to trade and communication. She is currently writing and presenting BBC current affairs radio documentary The Inquiry. Tanya has a degree from Oxford University in Metallurgy and Materials Science and spent five years as an investment banker in Frankfurt and London.

Prof. Katalin Ligeti

Prof. Ligeti is the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg since September 2017. She holds a Doctor of Law from the University of Hamburg and an LL.M. from the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on EU criminal law, comparative criminal procedure, and economic criminal law. She has published extensively, including three monographs and over 100 articles.
Prof. Ligeti has served as an expert for the European Commission, European Parliament, OECD, and other institutions. She was a is actively involved in several research networks, including:

  • Vice President of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP)
  • Co-coordinator of the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN)
  • Board member of the Siracusa International Institute, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation, and International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC)
  • Member of the Jean Monet Network on Enforcement of EU law (EULEN)

Prof. Andrew E. Clark

Andrew Clark earned both Masters and PhD degrees in Economics from the London School of Economics, and is currently Full CNRS Research Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He was one of the first researchers in Economics to use data on subjective well-being. His research has covered the role of comparisons (to others like you, to your partner etc.) in well-being, and the use of long-run panel data to model adaptation to life events (such as unemployment, marriage, and divorce). Recent work has used birth-cohort data to analyse the influence of family background and childhood events on adult outcomes (including adult subjective well-being), and considered the causes and consequences of economic insecurity. Prof. Clark is one of the authors of The Origins of Happiness (Princeton University Press).

Prof. Naila Kabeer

Prof. Naila Kabeer is Professor of Gender and Development at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to that she was Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She remains an Emeritus Fellow of the Institute. She has extensive experience in research, teaching and advisory work in the field of gender, poverty, labour markets, livelihoods and social protection and is currently leading on an ESRC/DFID funded research project on choice, constraints and the gender dynamics of labour markets in Bangladesh. She is on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Feminist Economics, Gender and Development, Development and Change and Third World Quarterly.

Dr Marina Andrijevic

Dr Marina Andrijevic is a research scholar at the Energy, Climate & Environment Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Her research focuses on scenarios of future socioeconomic development for climate change research, and integration of insights from social science with a particular interest in governance and gender equality. She is also actively working on ways to better incorporate adaptation in integrated assessments of climate change and is interested in understanding the future evolution of the adaptive capacity of societies. Her research has been published in high impact journals from the Nature portfolio, Science, and others.

Dr. Antoine Paccoud

At LISER since 2015, Antoine Paccoud is a social geographer with a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE). His research focuses on the spatial dimension of social inequalities, combining geography, economics, and urban sociology. He has published on Haussmann’s transformation of Paris, rental-driven gentrification in the UK, and the relevance of Alain Badiou’s philosophy for social sciences. Currently, he studies long-term land and real estate concentration in Luxembourg as part of the FNR-funded “Territorial Inequality” project.

Prof Skerdilajda Zanaj

Skerdilajda Zanaj is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Luxembourg. Her research interests include microeconomics, public and international economics, and the economics of culture and migration. Prior joining the University of Luxembourg, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Since 2019, she is the gender equality officer of the University of Luxembourg. Her work has led the University to reach the milestone of validating a Gender Equality Policy in May 2021. She is a promoter and advocate of gender equality because a gender diverse research team enhances research’s scientific quality and social relevance.

Skerdi is the chairwoman of the ZONTA Jane Klausman Awards for Luxembourg.

Prof. Conchita D’Ambrosio

Conchita D’Ambrosio is Professor of Economics, FNR PEARL Chair on socio-economic inequalities, at Université du Luxembourg. She is an economist, with a Ph.D. from New York University (2000). Her research interests have revolved around the study of individual and social well-being, its determinants, and the proposal of various measures that are able to capture its different aspects. Before joining the University of Luxembourg in 2013, she was Associate Professor of Economics at the Università di Milano-Bicocca.

She is chief editor of the Review of Income and Wealth since 2007. She joined the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Inequality in 2013. She has published in several academic journals and she is the editor of the Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being published by Edward Elgar in 2018.

Since 2019 she is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, and of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi in Turin. She is Research Fellow of the Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin since 2015. Since 2013 she is Luxembourg Income Study Senior Scholar and Fellow of the Dondena Centre on Social Dynamics and Public Policy of Università Bocconi in Milan.

Prof. Claus Vögele

Claus Vögele is professor of clinical and health psychology at the University of Luxembourg, where he is Head of the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, and director of the Master programme in Psychotherapy. He graduated in Psychology from Landau University, completed his doctorate at the University of Hamburg, and obtained his habilitation at the University of Marburg. Over the last 30 years he has held academic posts at both German and British Universities before joining the University of Luxembourg in February 2010. He is reviewer for numerous research funding organisations, and appointed member of a reviewer college. He is chief-editor of one international and one national journal, and editorial board member of several international and national journals. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), past Chair of the Division of Health Psychology (German Psychological Society) and past President of the German Society for Behavioural Medicine. A chartered Clinical and Health Psychologist (BPS, Health and Care Professions Council) and registered practice supervisor (BPS) he has been practising for the last 25 years and has held a senior position in the National Health Service (UK).

Inês Crisóstomo

With over a decade of experience in Science Management, I am dedicated to empowering scientists to excel in the ever-evolving research landscape. As the manager of the Mentoring Program at the University of Luxembourg, I am passionate about cultivating a positive organizational culture. I facilitate and mentor in areas of gender equality and career development, striving to support individuals and teams in realizing their full potential.

My mission is to foster a mentoring culture and create spaces where everyone feels they belong, contributing to the development of thriving research ecosystems and collaborative learning experiences. Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside remarkable individuals in diverse international academic settings.

My journey began with a curious mind and a passion for biomedicine. I hold a PhD in Biology from ITQB-UNL, with research conducted at Rockefeller University in New York, NY, USA. My expertise in scientific training and mentoring has been shaped through roles at esteemed international research institutes, including iMM in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Vienna BioCenter in Austria.

I am EMMC certified at the practitioner level for Individual Accreditation (EIA) and hold the EMCC Global Individual Coach/Mentor Programme Manager Accreditation (IPMA). Actively engaged in professional networks that encourage research and career development, I am a member of EMCC Luxembourg, the CARE network (Career Advisors Supporting Researchers in Europe), and the Eument-net (European Network of Mentoring Programmes for the Advancement of Equal Opportunities and Cultural Change in Academia and Research).