The Section for Social Issues of the CCEE Social Pastoral Care Commission is organising a meeting of social experts and economists in Rome from 6 to 8 March 2025 focusing on “A New Way of Doing Economics” in the world today.
Prominent speakers from across the world will address the theme from various perspectives, connecting it to a broad framework of relations to democracy, social divisions, education and technology, aiming to propose new approaches for the renewal of the modern economy.
An opening Lectio Inauguralis will be held by H. Em. Card. Michael Czerny SJ, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
From the United States, Prof. Dr. Charles M. Clark, illustrious Professor of Economics at St. John’s University in New York, Senior Fellow of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society, Research Fellow of the Center for Global Business Stewardship, and specialist author on the meeting’s theme, will offer his contribution which will reflect on new economics in relation to democracy.
Joining him in the reflection from a social perspective will be the Dominican Fr. Dr. Richard Finn OP, from the United Kingdom, Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, at Blackfriars, Oxford, Member and Former Regent of Blackfriars Hall, at Oxford University, as well as Prof. Stefano Zamagni, from the University of Bologna, Former President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Science, one of the main speakers at the first edition of The Economy of Francesco movement.
Further speakers will shed light on the challenges of the modern economy in connection with purpose-led businesses, education and technology. Among them will be Mr. Charles Wookey, from the United Kingdom, Founder of the Blueprint for Better Business movement, and Dr. Maria Dolores Sanchez Galera, Senior Research Advisor at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
Offering perspectives on economic renewal based on the Jubilee context and the Social Teaching of the Church will be Prof. Paul Dembinsky, from Switzerland, a Polish-Swiss economist, Director of the Observatoire de la Finance Institute in Geneva, Business Ethics expert and Professor at the University of Freiburg and at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. He will be joined by Sr. Laura Sarolta Baritz, OP, from Hungary, trained Economist, Dominican Sister, Professor of Religion and Ethics at the Sapientia High School in Budapest, and Creator of the Teaching Programme KETEG (Christian Social Principles in Economy) in 2010.
Further information and insights will follow on CCEE’s social media channels.
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