The Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics is now in its 4th year and has become a premier event on the topic: in an era defined by trade wars, sanctions, and military conflicts, cutting-edge research on geoconomics and security is more important than ever. Over the past years, policymakers have increasingly drawn on such research to guide decision-making in the arenas of economic, foreign, and security policy. 

This year, for the first time, the conference will take place in Paris, in cooperation with Sciences Po's Department of Economics and the German Embassy in Paris.

Read the preliminary program here

Conference highlights 
 

• We are honoured that Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard and CEPR) and Pol Antràs (Harvard and CEPR) will join us as keynote speakers.
   
• The Kiel Institute's 2025 Bernhard Harms Prize, one of Europe’s leading awards in the field of international economics, will be awarded to Silvana Tenreyro (LSE and CEPR) for her outstanding work in monetary economics, macro development, and international economics.
   
• The presenting scholars include Rodrigo Adao (Chicago Booth), Elena Carletti (Bocconi and CEPR), Christopher Clayton (Yale), Lydia Cox (Wisconsin-Madison), Banu Demir-Pakel (Oxford and CEPR), Beata Javorcik (Oxford, EBRD and CEPR), Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton), Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE and CEPR), Alberto Martin (Barcelona and CEPR), Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po and CEPR), Jacob Moscona (MIT), Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (UT Austin), Ralph Ossa (Zurich and CEPR), Hélène Rey (LBS and CEPR), Robert Staiger (Dartmouth), Mathias Thoenig (Lausanne and CEPR) and many more.
   
• Confirmed honorary speakers include Dorothée Rouzet (Chief Economist of the French Treasury), Ambassador Stephan Steinlein (German Ambassador to France), Luis Vassy (President of Sciences Po), and Beatrice Weder di Mauro (President of CEPR).
   
• Two high-level policy panels will discuss The Economics of Defense and Global Trade at a Crossroads.

Organisers

• Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po and CEPR)
• Moritz Schularick (Kiel Institute, Sciences Po, CEPR and Geoeconomics RPN Leader)
• Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute, CEPR, Geoeconomics RPN Steering Committee and International Lending and Sovereign Debt RPN Leader)

Please register online by October 17, 2025 if you would like to attend the part of the conference hosted at the Department of Economics.

Please note that Thursday afternoon's programme at the Palais Beauharnais, residence of the German Ambassor to France, is upon invitation only due to limited capacity.

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