Keynote speakers

Cristina Cattaneo

EEIE – European Institute on Economics and the Environment

Short bio

Cristina is deputy-director of the research division on Sustainable Earth Modelling Economics at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment and Fondazione CMCC, and she is head of the research area on Human Migration. She is an external research fellow of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAm) and a member of the Sustainable Future Policy Lab, which aims to provide policymakers and the public with opinions and analyses on environmental, natural resources, and climate change economics. From 2007 to 2018 Cristina has been senior researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). Her work focuses on the consequences of migration in the destination and origin countries and on the drivers of international migration. In particular, she studies migration connected to climate change. Recently she conducted field experiments to analyse the impact of energy efficiency programs on pro-social behaviour. She collaborated in several internationally funded research projects, and she was the main coordinator of an EU-funded project on psychological, social and financial barriers to energy efficiency. She published, among others, for Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez

Wharton – University of Pennsylvania

Short bio

Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez is the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He studies how global networks created by human migration and corporate partnerships affect the internationalization, innovation, and performance of organizations. He publishes pioneering research in two broad areas. In the first, he links immigration to organizations by demonstrating that migration patterns affect the investment choices, organizational decisions, and performance of firms in foreign markets. In the second, he shows that the structure of interfirm networks profoundly affects the value firms can create from corporate transactions such as alliances, acquisitions, and divestitures. He has won three Emerging Scholar awards from the most prestigious academic associations in his field, plus several best paper prizes for his research. He has also been recognized with numerous teaching excellence awards, and was selected by Poets & Quants as one of the Best 40 Under 40 business professors in the world.