The Road Ahead: The Future of the Global Economy

The world is rapidly changing, with most changes having to do with technological advances.

Join IE Brown Executive MBA Professor Gayle Allard as she explores some of the big issues that will affect the global economy in the next decade or two, including the implications if the world economy enters into an era of slower growth, and what this slower economic growth would entail for industrialized and developing nations.

During the session, we will explore how technological changes will affect jobs, either the creation of new technology related jobs or the destruction of traditional jobs and the implications for income inequality in the global economy.

The presentation will close with an examination of the political aspects of the effects globalization is having in the world economy and more specifically the backlash against globalization and the rise of the new populism in several countries around the world. Participants will contemplate the new definition of economic success in this interconnected macroeconomic environment and how all these issues are inflicting on the global economy.

Gayle Allard has been a professor of Managerial Economics for IE Business School since 2002.  She is a native of California, although she has lived and worked in Europe for 25 years.  She studied at the University of California (PhD in Economics) and Johns Hopkins University (Master in International Affairs), and her research has centered on labor markets, in particular the position of youth and immigrants in European labor markets and how labor-market rigidities affect unemployment. Recently her passion for development issues has led her to do research and lead student projects in African countries, especially Ethiopia, where she and students are helping the U.S. company Kinetico develop a project for clean water. She appears regularly in leading international media as a commentator on today’s key economic problems.