Opening of the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
14:00 - 15:00 CEST

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Inselhalle

Main Hall


This Session is available via livestream.


A Welcome to Lindau
Countess Bettina Bernadotte
President of the Council

Greetings from Stockholm (remote)
Hans Ellegren
Secretary-General, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden

Greetings from Brussels
Magnus Brunner
European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, European Commission, Belgium

Induction of Mario Draghi to the Honorary Senate
of the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
José Manuel Barroso
Former Prime Minister of the Portuguese Republic
and former President of the European Commission, Portugal

Jürgen Kluge
Chairman of the Board, Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Mario Draghi
Former Prime Minister of the Italian Republic
and former President of the European Central Bank, Italy

Hopes and Expectations: Young Scientists in Dialogue

María José Arteaga Garavito
Bocconi University, Italy

Mengyuan Cai
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Johannes Stangl
Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria

in conversation with Adam Smith

Introducing the Scientific Programme
Scientific Chairs of the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences

Torsten Persson
Stockholm University, Sweden

Klaus M. Schmidt
University of Munich, Germany

Antoinette Schoar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America

A Welcome to Bavaria
Eric Beißwenger
State Minister for European and International Affairs, Bavarian State Chancellery, Germany


Master of Ceremonies:
Adam Smith
Nobel Prize Outreach, Sweden