Maltese economist attends prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting

Owen Grech, an economist at the Central Bank of Malta and a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta, was selected to attend the sixth Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences. The Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting is a prestigious event, where Nobel laureates meet the next generation of leading scientists and researchers. It is a unique international forum for scientific exchange. Through a series of lectures and discussions, the meeting provides young economists with an invaluable opportunity to learn from and be inspired by the top contributors in the field. It allows for the exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience, networking as well as possible future collaboration among economists from different fields, cultures and age groups. The opportunity to attend the meeting is provided ex- clusively to outstanding young economists aged up to 35, who have to pass a rigorous, multistage application and selection process.

The meeting was held between 22 and 26 August in Lindau on Lake Constance, Germany; 350 economists from 66 countries were chosen to attend and they were joined by 18 Nobel Prize winners. Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, delivered the keynote address.

Grech is the coordinator of econometric modelling within the Economics and Research Department of the Central Bank of Malta. He was responsible for producing the bank’s macroeconomic forecasts and served the lead role in developing the bank’s core macro-econometric model of the Maltese economy. He has conducted research on a wide range of macroeconomic topics which has been presented and published both locally and internationally. Grech is a member of the European Central Bank’s Working Groups on Econometric Modelling and Public Finance and has delivered courses in economics as part of the Central Bank of Malta’s training programme. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta’s Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy. His main research interests lie in the field of macro-econometric modelling, which involves modelling, in a simplified way, how our complex economy works. Mr Grech holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Malta and an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick. He is also a Chevening scholar.