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2025 Development and Political Economics Conference (DevPEC)

An annual Bay Area PhD student conference advancing global economic development
Sponsored by
Stanford King Center on Global Development
Berkeley Center for Economics and Politics (BCEP)
Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI)

Event Details:

Thursday, April 17, 2025 - Friday, April 18, 2025

Location

University of California, Berkeley

This event is open to:

Faculty/Staff
Students

The Development and Political Economics Conference (DevPEC) is a student-led event that has taken place since 2015 with the generous support of the Stanford King Center on Global Development, Berkeley Center for Economics and Politics (BCEP), and the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI). The conference brings together PhD candidates from different institutions working on topics related to development economics and political economy to present their work and receive feedback from other students as well as professors. 

This year’s edition took place on April 17 and 18, 2025 on UC Berkeley’s campus. Remote participation was available. The planning committee was composed of Stanford students Monia Tomasella, Camilla Cherubini, and Anna Vdovina, and UC Berkeley students Edgar Sanchez-Cuevas, Sarah Danner, Nikhil Shankar.  

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