Keynote Speaker

Ryan Avent is a senior editor and economics columnist at The Economist. He is the author of The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century and The Gated City. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. Before entering journalism, Mr. Avent worked as an economic consultant and as an industry analyst for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. He has an economics degree from North Carolina State University, and an MSc in economic history from the London School of Economics.