WDR 2025 Seminar Series

2025

Environmental Standards: A Key Policy Instrument for Fostering Sustainable Development

SPEAKER: 
Stefan Ambec
INRAE Research Professor, Toulouse School of Economics

➜ Presentation

Quality Infrastructure Maturity Trajectories: Experiences and Perspectives from Advanced and Developing Economies

SPEAKERS: 
Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Expert in Quality Infrastructure (QI) and Economic Development Founding Partner at Mesopartner

Christian Schoen
Economist and Co-Founder of Mesopartner

Ann-Sara Ramkissoon
Doctoral candidate in development economics, University of Florence

➜ Presentation

Navigating Standards: The Impact of Technical Regulations and Voluntary Certifications on Firms’ Trade Strategies

➜ Presentation

➜ Papers: Protection or Protectionism | Building a New Reputation

Standard Sizes: The Government's Role in Diffusing Mass Production Techniques in the U.S., 1917–1960s

➜ Presentation

Appraising the Role of Standardization in India's Economic Development

SPEAKER: 
Anupam Kaul
Strategic Adviser (Quality & Standards)

➜ Presentation

Standards and Law: Key Issues in Development Contexts

Standards and the Regulation of Plastic Wastes in Developing Countries: A New Direction in Ending Plastic Pollution? ns

SPEAKER:
Kate O'Neill, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California—Berkeley

From Standard Takers to Standard Makers: The Case of China and South Korea

SPEAKERS:
Prof. John Gong, Professor of economics at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) and Vice-President of Research and Strategy, UIBE-Israel

Vanessa Y. Zhang, Head of Greater China Practice, Executive Vice President of Compass Lexecon (New York and Beijing

Hee Jin Lee, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University

➜ Presentation on China

➜ Presentation on South Korea

Setting Norms and Standards in Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities

SPEAKERS:
Prof. Gavin Yamey,Hymowitz Family Professor of the Practice in Global Health Professor of the Practice of Global Health
Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy Core Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy

Prof. Osondu Ogbuoji, Assistant Research Professor of Global Health Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences Core Faculty, Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy Deputy Director, Duke Center for Policy Impact in Global Health

➜ Presentation

Lessons from Private Food Safety Standards as a Governance Mechanism for Agri-Food Value Chains

SPEAKER:
Spencer Henson, Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph

➜ Presentation

DPI: Setting Standards with the Hourglass Model

SPEAKERS:
Abhishek Sankritik, Director (Policy and Programs) at the Finternet Labs

Siddharth Shetty, CEO at Finternet Labs and Co-creator of the Finternet

➜ Presentation

The Politics of International Standardization

SPEAKER:
Solveig Bjørkholt, PhD candidate at the University of Oslo

Regulating risk during early industrialisation

SPEAKER:
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris)