2021 Year in Review & 2022 Economic Outlook Master Class - USA & Canada

During this master class you will hear directly from Professor Gayle Allard regarding how 2021 is wrapping up and what the economic outlook is for 2022. In particular Professor Allard will discuss the ongoing global economic recovery and explore different strategies for managing an increasingly hot economy. She will also take a deep dive into the implications of the new labor markets, the finer points of Bidenomics, the COP26 agreement and related challenges. Professor Allard will conclude the session with some of her thoughts and predications for how these trends will play out in the short, medium and long term.

ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUEST

 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.