DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy

About the Lecture

The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy was launched in 2008 in honor of Northwestern alumna Susan Schmidt Bies. Bies, who earned her doctorate in economics from Northwestern University in 1972, served in various capacities during a long career, including on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2001 until 2007. The lecture alternates between microeconomic and macroeconomic topics.

UPCOMING LECTURE

Darrell Duffie will present the Susan Bies Lecture on April 26, 2022. 

RECENT LECTURE

Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics and School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, delivered the Susan Bies Lecture on April 18, 2019.  His lecture title was "Rising Inequality and Globalization." Watch the lecture.

Previous Bies Lectures

Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University 2017

"Current Policy Challenges Facing the U.S." October 18, 2017 Link to video

Claudia Goldin Harvard University 2017	"Career and Family: Collision or Confluence" May 2, 2017 Link to video
Ben S. Bernanke Brookings Institution 2016	"In Conversation with Professor Janice Eberly" April 25, 2016 The event was not recorded
Carl Shapiro University of California, Berkeley 2015	"Antitrust Limits on Mergers: Protecting Consumers and Enabling Synergies" May 13, 2015 Link to video
Christina Romer University of California, Berkeley 2014	"The Aftermath of Financial Crises: It Doesn't Have to be Terrible" April 7, 2014 Link to video
Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013	"Hope, Aspirations and the Design of the Fight Against Poverty" April 11, 2013 Link to video
Olivier Blanchard  Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the International Monetary Fund 2012	"The Crisis; Where we are and where we may go." April 30, 2012 Link to video
David Cutler Harvard University 2011	"The Coming Transformation of American Medicine" May 19, 2011
Jean-Claude Trichet President, European Central Bank 2010	"What Central Banks can do in a Crisis" April 27, 2010
Preston McAfee Yahoo! Inc. 2009	"The Economics of Internet Advertising and Public Policy" April 21, 2009
John B. Taylor Stanford University 2008	"The Explanatory Powers of Monetary Policy Rules" March 31, 2008