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Keynote Speech

Luigino Bruni - Professor of Economics, LUMSA University, Italy

Luigino Bruni is a full-time professor of economics at LUMSA University, Rome. In 1989, he graduated with a degree in economics from University of Ancona in Italy. He got his Ph.D in history of economics at University of Florence in 1998, and another Ph.D in economics at University of East Anglia in 2006. Before joining in the faculty of Lumsa University in 2012, he was an associated professor in University of Milano-Bicocca (2001-2012). For the last 20 years his research has covered many areas including microeconomics, ethics and economics, history of economic thought, methodology of economics, sociality and happiness in economics. Bruni's current research focuses on civil economy, relational goods, virtue-ethics in economics, vulnerability in Organizations, as well as economics and theology.
Nic Marks - CEO of Happiness Works

Nic Marks helps organizations build happier, more productive workplaces, and thus founded Happiness Works in London and San Francisco. After studying mathematics, economics and management at the University of Cambridge, Marks gained his Ph.Ds in operational research at Lancaster University and organizational change at the University of Surrey. In 2001 he founded the Centre for Wellbeing at the London-based think tank, the New Economics Foundation, where he and his team has produced groundbreaking reports such as the Happy Planet Index, Five Ways to Wellbeing and National Accounts of Wellbeing for which they were awarded the "Betterment of Humankind Award" from the International Society for Quality of Life Studies in 2008. Marks was also an advisor to the UK Government Office for Science on the Wellbeing Foresight Program. In 2010 he was invited to speak at TED global conference. He authored one of the original three TEDbooks, entitled "A Happiness Manifesto." He was named as one of the Top Ten Original Thinkers by the UK's Institute of Directors magazine and his work was listed as one of Forbes Magazine's Seven Most Powerful Ideas in 2011.

Keynote Presentation

Ahn, Joyup - Senior Fellow at the Korea Labor Institute

Ahn, Joyup is a senior fellow at the Korea Labor Institute
It has engaged in many activities to elicit the awareness of the public about the issue of reasonable labor policy and labor development Former Labour Policy Studies, Labor Economic Association, etc. and can expand the number of lectures and research to improve labor issues, and to build a happier society.

Roundtable Discussion - Nov. 23 (Wednesday)

Yoo, Chung Sik - Professor of Economics, Yonsei University
Luigino Bruni - Professor of Economics, LUMSA University, Italy
Nic Marks - CEO of Happiness Works
Ahn, Joyup - Senior Fellow at the Korea Labor Institute

Ahn, Joyup is a senior fellow at the Korea Labor Institute
It has engaged in many activities to elicit the awareness of the public about the issue of reasonable labor policy and labor development Former Labour Policy Studies, Labor Economic Association, etc. and can expand the number of lectures and research to improve labor issues, and to build a happier society.