Keynote speakers

Rosa Ferrer

Rosa Ferrer is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She is Affiliated Professor in Barcelona Graduate School of Economics since 2009 and a Research Affiliate member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research since 2015. After earning her B.A. from the University Carlos III of Madrid in 2003, and an M.A. in Economics in 2005 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, she moved to the USA where she received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2009. Her research focuses on Law and Economics, Industrial Organization, Organization Economics, Economics of Crime, and Game Theory.

She currently serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of the Spanish Economic Association and she published papers in most valuable international academic journals like Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and European Economic Review.

Didier Migaud

Didier Migaud is a French politician and former member of the Socialist Party.

He graduates from Sciences Po Lyon and is the holder of a postgraduate degree in public law. He is a deputy for the 4th constituency of Isère since 1988. In 1995, he was elected to the presidency of the Grenoble-Alpes Métropole agglomeration community, which he held for nearly 15 years.

General reporter of the National Assembly's Finance Committee from 1997 to June 2002, he is known in French Parliament as one of the specialists in budgetary matters. During the 2007 presidential election campaign, he was the "budget advisor" to the candidate Ségolène Royal. In November 2008, Didier Migaud was appointed member of the National Secretariat of the Socialist Party, as advisor for finance and taxation to Martine Aubry, First Secretary of the Socialist Party. In 2010, he retired from politics, leaving all his elective mandates and, by the way, the Socialist Party.

Didier Migaud was elected President of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly from 2007 to 2010 and then First President of the French Court of Auditors from 2010 to 2020. In January 2020, the French President Emmanuel Macron appointed him president of the High Authority for transparency of public life.