Eminent Speaker Series 2023
The Central Council Executive is delighted to see the return of the Eminent Speaker Series. Professor Joshua Gans of University of Toronto will visit three locations as part of this program.
Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto
If you missed Professor Gans during his visit to Australia, you can catch up on his presentation below - apologies for the quality of the sound during the first few minutes of this recording - it improves greatly after the first three minutes.
About or Eminent Speaker
Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto. Joshua is also Chief Economist of the University of Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab and a Research Associate of the NBER in the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. Joshua is managing director of Core Economic Research and a Senior Consultant with Charles River Associates.
Joshua’s research looks at technological competition and innovation, economic growth, publishing economics, industrial organisation and regulatory economics. This has culminated in publications in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Regulatory Economics. He has co-authored two books on artificial intelligence: Power & Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence (HBR Press, 2022) and Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (HBR Press, 2018) and twelve other books.