Geoeconomic Fragmentation - Challenges and Opportunities

Juncture: Dialogues on Inclusive Capitalism is a University of Auckland Business School Research Centre exploring how capitalism can better serve people and planet.

Join us on Thursday 4 December for a distinguished dialogue event, Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Challenges and Opportunities.

The international economy is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by a complex interplay of economic, technological, and geopolitical forces. Shifts in trade networks, evolving patterns in capital flows, the rise of digital innovation, and the risk of increasing geoeconomic fragmentation are reshaping the international rules of the game. These changes present both opportunities and challenges for policymakers, businesses, and scholars, through their impact on economic stability and development, as well as the distribution of benefits and risks across countries.

Join Laura Alfaro and Andy Haldane as they discuss how these developments are likely to shape inclusive growth, cross-border spillovers, and financial stability in an interconnected world.

Both Laura and Andy are coming to New Zealand as Sir Douglas Myers Fellows, generously sponsored by the Myers family.

Event details

Date: Thursday 4 December 2025

Time: 5.00-5.45pm networking, 6-7.30 pm event

Networking Venue: Level 1 Foyer, Sir Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland CBD

Dialogue Event Venue: Decima Glenn, Room 310, Sir Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland CBD

Drinks and finger food will be served. For catering purposes, please register by Monday 1 December. Please note this event will be recorded.

Event panellists:

Laura Alfaro

Laura Alfaro is Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics and a co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Growth. Professor Alfaro has published work in the field of international economics in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, as well as in Harvard Business School cases. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA), received a B.A in economics with honors from the Universidad de Costa Rica, and a 'Licenciatura' from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile where she graduated with the highest honors.

Andy Haldane CBE, FRS

Andy Haldane is Chancellor of the University of Sheffield and President of the British Chamber of Commerce. He is a contributing editor at the Financial Times and Chief Economic Adviser at PWC. One of the most distinguished British economists and public servants of his generation, he was the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts, a former Chief Economist and member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England, and the Permanent Secretary for Levelling Up at the Cabinet Office. Andy is a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, and Exeter. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021, awarded the CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list of 2023, received the Freedom of the City of London in 2024, and in 2014, was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Andy was educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick.

Chair:

Prasanna Gai is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Auckland and serves on the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Board of the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority. He was educated at the Australian National University and Christ Church, Oxford. Prasanna was formerly at the Bank of England (1994-2007) and was Professor of Economics at the Australian National University (2008-10). From 2010 to 2012, Prasanna was Special Adviser to Governor Mark Carney at the Bank of Canada. He was elected to a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford (2014) and to the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, Frankfurt (2016-19).

If you would like more information about this event, please email the Juncture Team.

We hope that you can join us.

Professor Susan Watson

Director, Juncture: Dialogues on Inclusive Capitalism

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