STOREP 2026: Invited speakers

Professor D’Maris Coffman is Vice Dean (Innovation & Enterprise) and Professor of Economics and Finance at The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University. A fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and inaugural fellow of the Chinese Economic Association (UK), Coffman is a multi-disciplinary social scientist with some 150 publications across the fields of economic history, economic geography, political economy, infrastructure economics and environmental economics. She is also interested in translating neglected texts in the history of economic thought. She has advised the World Bank and G20 on the challenges of financing climate-compatible infrastructures and has published widely on climate policy. Her current research explores modes for post-SDG multilateralism in an era of shifting global cooperation. From February 2017 to July 2023, she has served as Editor-in-Chief of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, and she has been a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Cleaner Production, Economia Politica, Frontiers of Engineering Management, and the Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment.

The title of her lecture at the STOREP 2026 Conference is “The New Multilateralism: Multilateral Governance and Regional Economic Development after the SDGs”

Carlo Panico

Carlo Panico is Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He was Professor of Political Economy at the University Federico II of Naples (Italy). His main research interest is the effects of monetary events on income distribution and growth. He has published articles and monographs on how money can be integrated in the theory of value, distribution and production. He has as well contributed to the history of economic thought, studying the writings of Keynes, Sraffa, Kaldor, Harrod and Myrdal, the history of monetary analysis, the debate on the Marshallian supply curves, and the evolution of the concept of rationality. His publications have also examined the institutional organization of economic policy, dealing with the relationship between central banks’ independence and democracy, the evolution of financial regulation, the conduct of monetary policy, and its coordination with fiscal policy in the European Monetary Union, USA and Mexico.

The title of his lecture at the STOREP 2026 Conference is “The Classical-Keynesian approach and Pasinetti’s structural dynamics: some historical and methodological notes”