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PER Live Series: “How Are Tech Firms Shaping the Future of Society and the New Economy?”
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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The PER Live Series is a recurring set of discussions involving finance and business thought leaders. Topics address the important economic issues of our time.This event was livestreamed via the Economics Department’s YouTube channel. A direct link to our event video can be found here. Closed captions and a transcript are also available.
This event will take place via Zoom meeting on Wednesday, December 16th from 1:00PM to 2:00PM (EST). A Zoom invitation will be sent to registered attendees the morning of the event. Registration details below.
This event is open to the public, but designed for Job Market Candidates and other Columbia University graduate students in Economics.
Speakers:
Aritra (AC) Chakravarty
Founder and CEO, Project Imagine
AC founded Project Imagine after 13+ years in various roles at HSBC across New York, London, and Hong Kong, in Investment Banking, Private Banking, Strategy, and COO roles. In his last role there, he set up HSBC’s Wealth Digital team from scratch, building a team from 0-300 and designing and delivering seven product launches in 18 months across UK, HK, Canada and other markets. At PI, he continues to lead Product and Platform decisions, and is also passionate about many People topics resulting in key facets of PI’s culture including no-CV hiring, transparent salaries across the board, performance immunity and more. AC is an alumnus of Stanford GSB, London Business School, and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta.
Garrett Hagemann, Ph.D.
Senior Economist, Twitch
“Tech Firms In the Middle”
Garrett Hagemann joined Amazon in 2018 after completing his Ph.D. In his initial position he focused on questions around advertising and advertiser behavior on Amazon. His latest role at Twitch continues to focus on advertising as well as pricing related questions. Prior to graduate school Garrett worked as an economist for the US Dept. of Transportation where worked on forecasting aggregate travel demand, aviation safety, and fuel economy standards.
Moderator:
Sophia N. Johnson, Ph.D.
Program for Economic Research (PER), Columbia University
Livestream and Accessibility:
This event was livestreamed via the Economics Department’s YouTube channel. A direct link to our event video can be found here. Closed captions and a transcript are also available.
Code of Conduct:
By attending, all conference participants agree to abide by the event’s Code of Conduct.
Video and Photography Policy:
Portions of this conference will be live-streamed and all sessions will be video/audio taped. By registering, your attendance at or in participation in this conference constitutes your consent to the use and distribution by Columbia University of the attendee’s image or voice for informational live stream, publicity, promotional and/or reporting purposes in print or electronic communications media. Video recording by participants and other attendees during any portion of the conference is not allowed without special prior written permission. Photographs of copyrighted PowerPoint or other slides are for personal use only and are not to be reproduced or distributed. Do not photograph any such images that are labeled as confidential and/or proprietary.
This conference is co-sponsored by Columbia University’s Program for Economic Research (PER). Please direct all questions to econ-per@columbia.edu.
Poster Image Credit:
“From Cash to Digital” by FamZoo.
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