EMANES Annual Conference 2025

EMANES ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025

Towards Regenerative Economies: Pathways for Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Development in Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa

Conference dates

10-12 December 2025

In collaboration with:

Event Venue

Hybrid Conference hosted at EMEA HQ,
Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, Barcelona

Orginised by:

When

December 10^th - 12^th
2025

Where

EMEA Headquarters & on Zoom

BACKGROUND

EMANES Annual Conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to discuss current issues related to socio-economic development and regional integration in Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa. While the specific theme of the Annual Conference varies from year to year, the overall objective of this conference is to stimulate discussion of high quality and policy relevant cutting-edge research that informs our understanding of how various socio-economic issues can affect the overall economy and the societies at the national and regional levels and the extent of interconnectedness and complementarities between the economies that lead to peaceful, prosperous, healthy and vibrant societies.

Further information on past EMANES Annual Conferences and featured themes can be found
https://conference2025.emnes.org/previous-conferences

CO-CHAIRS

WHO THEY ARE

Prof. Rym Ayadi

President, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA)
Director, Euro-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies (EMANES)

Dr. Cinzia Alcidi

Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Economic Policy and Jobs & Skills Unit at CEPS

Prof. Giovanni Ferri

LUMSA University, Rome

Carlo Sessa

Member of the Executive Board of the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA)

Garyfallia (Fay) Selimi

Deputy Director of the Circular Economy & Climate Institute of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO)

Martin Lukac

Professor at the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague and Coordinator of the ReForest project

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

WHO THEY ARE

Philippe Adair

Emeritus Professor of Economics, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)

Sami Ben Naceur

Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Middle Eat Center of Economics and Finance

Barbara Casu

Professor of Banking and Finance and Vice Dean at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London

Ralph Chami

CEO & Co-Founder Blue Green Future, Former Assistant Director IMF

Jacques Charmes

Emeritus Research Director, Institute of Research for Development (IRD)

Najat El Makkaoui

Professor of Economics, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

Claudia Girardone

Dean at Essex Business School and Professor of Banking and Finance, Essex Business School, University of Essex

Giorgia Giovannetti

Rector for International Relations and Professor at the University of Florence

Basma Majerbi

Associate Professor, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria

Joaquim Oliveira Martins

ounsellor at the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII, Paris), and Lecturer at the PSL-University of Paris-Dauphine.

Raul Ramos

Professor, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics, University of Barcelona

Dorothea Schäfer

Research Director Financial Markets at DIW Berlin and Adjunct Professor at Jönköping University – JIBS (Economics). Editor-in-Chief of Eurasian Economic Review

George Zestos

Professor of Economics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration at Christopher Newport University in Virginia

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

WHO THEY ARE

Yeganeh-Forouheshfar.

EMEA Senior Researcher

George Christopoulos

EMEA Intelligence & Communication Officer

Maria Ruiz de Cossío

EMEA Senior Project Officer

Paula Pazos Puig

EMEA Researcher

Christine Devisser

EMEA Project Manager

Anna Santamaria

EMEA Administrative Officer

Tiago Zibecchi

EMEA Researcher

Daniel Luque

EMEA Assistant Administrative Officer

ORGANISERS

This year’s EMANES Annual Conference will be hosted hybrid in Barcelona by the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA) and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), in collaboration with the Circular Economy and Climate Institute of the European Public Law Organisation – EPLO, and the EU Funded Projects ReForest (Project Nr. 101060635) and CROSS-REIS (Project Nr. 101136834).

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Be part of EMANES Conference 2025

Deadline for Submission: October 10th, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: November 10th, 2025
Registration Deadline accepted author: November 15th, 2025
Conference dates: December 10th-11th-12th, 2025