Howard Shatz
Howard Shatz
Senior Economist
RAND Corporation, United States
Howard J. Shatz is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He specializes in international economics, including international development, and economics and national security.
His RAND research has included issues related to Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction; international economic competition and the U.S. role in the global economic order; great power competition in the Middle East; the Chinese and Russian economies; the finances and management of the Islamic State and its predecessors; and socio-economic policy projects in China, Israel, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Mongolia, and Saudi Arabia. From 2007 to 2008, he was on leave from RAND, serving as a senior economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
He has written academic journal articles, book chapters, and policy reports on trade and labor markets, the geography of international investment, exchange rates and economic performance, services trade, and trade barriers and low-income countries. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.
Thursday 11
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10.30 - 11.20
Us and European Perspectives on Ukraine’s Post War Reconstruction
Artemis Hall | European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Programming Partner: RAND Corporation
Recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine might be the largest post-war rebuilding effort in modern history. If implemented successfully, it will take its place as the next step in the multigenerational effort to reconstruct and reintegrate Europe, from Western Europe after WWII, Central and Eastern Europe after the Cold War, and the Western Balkans after the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. While Ukraine can and should set the priorities, success will require joint U.S. and European leadership. This panel will explore the many dimensions of the Ukraine reconstruction challenge from the U.S. and the European perspective, including factors that have led to success in past efforts; financing; coordination among donors, international financial institutions, and Ukraine; ensuring the integrity of reconstruction spending; the need for Ukraine to engage in internal reforms; the security dimension of Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction; and the upcoming Ukraine Recovery Conference 2024, to be hosted in Berlin this June.
Friday 12
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15.10 - 15.55
Geopolitics and Today's Middle East
Artemis Hall | European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Programming Partner: RAND Corporation
The present war in Gaza and the Abraham Accords have changed the dynamics to today’s Middle East. While we do not know where the Israel-Palestinian conflict will be in six months, there will undoubtedly be a new dimension to geopolitical rivalries in the region. The Houthis started attacking ships in the Red Sea in October 2023, but just one month before at the G20 summit, leading nations and the European Union announced a potential new India-Middle East-Europe Corridor. U.S. policy priorities are changing, from a disengagement preference at the beginning of the present Administration to once again trying to shape a new security and economic future for the region. Change is also important for Europe — and Greece — as the first European point of contact for the proposed IMEC is Piraeus. The panel will look beyond the Gaza war to U.S.-Europe-Middle East economic potential, including transit and technology, and likely Chinese, Iranian and Russian strategies in response.