AES Annual Conference

The 99th Annual Conference of The Agricultural Economics Society will be held at Bordeaux School of Economics – University of Bordeaux, France, 14th – 16th April 2025.

The Conference features:

• Keynote Address by Céline Bonnet (TSE – INRAE, France).
  Insights from Industrial Organization: Tackling Agricultural Sector Challenges in a Changing World
• Presidential Address will be given by Professor Paul Wilson (The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom).
  Obsessions with Farm Performance: A Cinderella Social-Science?
• Symposium led by Prof. Bob Chambers (University of Maryland, USA) and Prof. Spiro Stefanou (ERS Administrator, USA)
• Masterclass led by Prof. David Wüepper (University of Bonn, Germany)
  Regression discontinuity – designs in agricultural and environmental economics

Special Sessions:

• Machine Learning in Agricultural Economics: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges led by Hugo Storm (University of Bonn)
• Securing European Agriculture: From Cost Stability to Energy Freedom led by Franziska Appel (IAMO)

The Agricultural Economics Society explicitly intends to support early-career researchers by awarding a prize for the best presentation by a PhD student in the contributed paper sessions and two best poster prizes for early-career researchers.