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The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2026 has been awarded to Nathaniel Hendren by CESifo and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF).

The Lecture takes place on 15 April 2026, at 6 p.m. CEST @ifo Institute (Ludwig Erhard Hall).

While at CESifo, Gonzague Vannoorenbergh will work on a project studying the link between exposure to globalization and vote for populist parties in France at a granular spatial level. He aims to improve our understanding of this relationship by studying a rich set of mechanisms through which globalization could matter at the local level.

Another strand of his research studies the link between international trade and risk/volatility. He will also work on these questions while at CESifo, the risk dimension being a potentially important driver of political outcomes.

Nathaniel Hendren is a Professor of Economics at MIT and Fellow of the CESifo Research network. He is also a Founder and Co-Director of Opportunity Insights, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of government decision-making and evidence-based policy-making.

Nathaniel 's academic work seeks to understand how we can expand economic opportunity. His work quantifies lack of economic mobility and economic opportunity and aims to uncover why private markets fail to provide economic opportunity in settings ranging from insurance markets to investments in children's education.

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Industrial policy has returned to the forefront worldwide. The EU is engaged in an effort to expand the scope and scale of its industrial strategy. The goal: to make the continent more resilient and autonomous in an increasingly assertive global landscape, whether on an industrial, commercial, or geopolitical level. To achieve this, however, the bloc must take coordinated and targeted action to leverage its comparative advantages and diversify its R&D partnerships. Its technological sovereignty is at stake.