We are very proud to announce the keynote speakers of the 17th International Input-Output Conference:

Eduardo Haddad
Eduardo Amaral Haddad holds a bachelor degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (1993). In January 1995 he received a M.A. degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; he defended his Ph.D. dissertation, at the same institution, in December 1997. In the calendar year of 1998, he was engaged in post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies, in the UK.

In January 1999, Prof. Haddad joined the faculty at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is currently Full Professor at the Department of Economics at that University, where he teaches courses on Regional and Urban Economics and General Equilibrium Modeling. He is the Director of Research of the Institute of Economic Research Foundation – FIPE – and also holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory – REAL – at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. At FIPE, he is responsible for the coordination with funding agencies and clients, as well as the supervision of the research projects of the institution (currently, there are over 150 active projects).

Haddad is the author of the book “Regional Inequality and Structural Changes: Lesson from the Brazilian Experience” (Ashgate, 1999), and has published on regional and interregional input-output analysis, general equilibrium modeling, and various aspects of regional economic development in developing countries, specially in Brazil, in both national and international journals; he has also contributed with chapters in international books in the fields of regional science and economic development. Altogether, he has authored and co-authored more than 150 publications, including 3 monographs, 20 chapters in books, and 45 journal articles.

Prof. Haddad has acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations – UNDP, the Joint Africa Institute, and many other public and private organizations, national and international. Since October 2006, he acts as the elected president of the Brazilian Regional Science Association. He also serves as President of the Regional Science of Americas, since November 2008.

Sanjiv Mahajan
Sanjiv Mahajan joined the UK Statistical Office in 1988, after gaining a BSc Honours Degree in Mathematics in 1986 and spending two years working as a stockbroker. Sanjiv has worked in a number of posts across the UK Economic Accounts covering Gross Fixed Capital Formation, Inventories, Capital Stock, Supply Modelling, Input-Output Tables, and Supply and Use Tables before becoming the Head of National Accounts Strategy and Development. For nearly 15 years, Sanjiv was responsible for producing the annual current price UK Supply and Use Tables (and Symmetric I-O Tables) used to produce coherent UK Economic Accounts, and setting the annual level of UK current price GDP. This included the development, coordination, compilation, balancing, analyses and publication of these tables and accounts, and a wide-range of quality improvements to business surveys and the business register.

Sanjiv is presently the Head of International Coordination and Strategy covering economic statistics. This includes leading the Office for National Statistics (ONS) work on inputs to the revision of the SNA and ESA as well as a range of strategic cross-cutting issues.

Sanjiv has represented the ONS, and the UK, in various fora such as international meetings, presentations, seminars, and providing training/teach-in’s to suppliers and users within the UK and based overseas. Also produced and contributed to numerous articles, papers and products produced within the ONS, and outside the ONS, for example, by other government departments, regional statistical offices, academics, researchers, economists, analysts, and the media.

Thijs ten Raa
Thijs ten Raa obtained his MSc in Mathematics from University of Groningen (1977) and PhD in Economics at New York University (1981). He is professor of Tilburg University and has conducted extensive research on growth and productivity issues with several books and numerous papers.

Yang Cuihong
Yang Cuihong obtained her MSc in Applied Mathematics from Chonqqing University (1996) and PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Institute of Systems Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999). She is now an associate professor of Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her main research area is input-output technique, economic forecasting, macroeconomic analysis. She has been focusing on the applications of input-output technique as well as econometrics in major fields of China’s national economy. She has published more than 40 articles and written about 20 research reports for relevant government agencies.