Opening remarks by Jean-François Marchi (Vice-president in charge of international relations at Aix-Marseille University), Rostane Mehdi (Sciences Po Aix director), Alain Venditti (AMSE director), and Hiroshi Kitagawa (Consul General of Japan in Marseille)
Keynote speaker #1 - Hélène Rey (London Business School) "Global cycles and multipolar world economy" Chair: Kiyotaka Sato (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Keynote speaker #2 - Mark Harrison (Oxford University) "Globalization and Pandemic Governance: Lessons from two Pandemics" Chair: Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix, France)
Keynote speaker #4 - Mary-Françoise Renard (CERDI, Université d’Auvergne) "China, the "global south" and the growing role of geopolitics" Chair: Gilles Dufrénot (Sciences Po Aix, AMSE, France)