Flexibility and the Future oF work in europe

programme of the dayJoaquin AlmuniA Sharan Burrow

Sergio mArchionne christopher PiSSArideS

André SAPir and luc henSProfessors at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB)

and the Solvay Business School (VUB)

2nd congreSS of the SolvAy SchoolS And their Alumni

Brussels, 15 october 2012

Dear Madam, Dear Sir, Dear Alumni,

As you may already know Ernest Solvay did not only found the “Solvay Schools”, he also created other institutes (sociology, chemistry, physiology) and launched in 1911 international congresses in the fields of physics and chemistry gathering leading figures and one or more Nobel Prize winners in these disciplines.

Back in 2005 I suggested to Solvay Schools Alumni to organize such events in the fields of business. Today you are attending our fourth edition.

Numerous objectives are met through our congresses amongst which:

- to highlight Solvay Schools Alumni’s capacity to gather both internationally renowned speakers and business related individuals in Brussels, capital of Europe;

- to bear high the colours of our Schools and of their faculty;

- to address topics that link business, economy and society, hence that influence the business as well as our politics;

this while generating a financial surplus that is split between the funding of :

- the association which itself finances a chair at the schools level as well as supports many of their activities always looking at empowering the Alumni network;

- our endowment that will finance events organized in partnership between our association and the schools, strictly dedicated to the teaching of business, management and economics.

I am proud and profoundly happy to report that this congress also gave Solvay Schools Alumni the opportunity to offer both Schools’ bachelor students (in two different sessions due to their high number) a lecture by Professor Ch. PISSARIDES on the same theme as the congress: “Flexibility and the future of work in Europe” (topic that could have been enlarged by linking flexibility and the future of Europe altogether since one could believe Europe has to reengineer and free, untangle itself…).

This is what Alumni association are partly made for: support their Schools, offer their students moments of exception, give back to society… Not forgetting to maintain the Solvay Schools Alumni spirit, to reinforce the Solvay Schools and their Alumni network, encouraging them to create a virtuous circle to the benefit of all parties and society.

In this regard it is essential that our congresses not only gather Alumni but as many people coming from other horizons as possible. It is the case again today which offers me the opportunity to thank all of you warmly for your presence.

Last, but not least, it is my honour and pleasure, on behalf of our association to thank our speakers Joaquín ALMUNIA, Sharan BURROW, Sergio MARCHIONNE, Christopher PISSARIDES as well as our colleagues, professors Luc HENS and André SAPIR .

I am already looking forward to seeing you again in late 2014 for our next congress.

Thankfully, friendly and sincerely yours,

gilles SAmyn, Chairman

Special thanks:

- to the team of volunteers without whom this congress simply would not have happened : thanks to Marie, Laetitia, Alexandra, Aurélie, Fabienne, Myriam, Nicolas, Xavier and Michaël;

- to the sponsors whose names appear at the back of this brochure for their generous support.

Gilles Samyn

Dear Madam, Dear Sir, Dear Alumni,

It is our great pleasure to be part of and contribute to this second big congress, organized by you as SolvAy SchoolS Alumni. This event is unique in Belgium, not only because of the excellence of the program and its speakers, but even more so because it is initiated and set up almost completely by our Alumni association. Of course, this happens in close and friendly collaboration with the two Solvay Schools, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. We as deans of these two schools are proud to count on such dynamic and ambitious Alumni.

We thank in particular the outstanding Chairman of our Alumni association gilles Samyn. We will surely miss Gilles when he retires as Chairman in the near future. Gilles is the inspirator of the idea to organize on a regular basis this type of high-level scientific meetings, in the spirit of our founder ernest Solvay who in the first part of last century brought to Brussels scientific stars like Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. It is this inspiration that has made possible the presence today with us of an extremely distinguished set of international speakers. We are extremely grateful for their presence and their decisive contribution to this congress. We are also extremely grateful to you who, individuals as well as guests of corporations have made sure to be part of our audience today.

We are also particularly pleased with this event because it corresponds so well to the values our Schools want to aim for: excellence, relevance, breadth and internationalization. Excellence is obvious when one looks at the quality of our international speakers. Relevance is also obvious: flexibility of work is at the core of today’s discussions on the future competitive position of Belgium and Europe in a globalized environment. Flexibility of work and its consequences can also only be understood in a multidimensional and international perspective, and this is why a broad set of experts from different disciplines and countries has been mobilized in order to analyze the interaction between its various facets: governance, regulation and management.

Finally, this congress is a reminder of the value of unity: just like the Alumni association is stronger thanks to its inclusion of both Solvay ULB and VUB graduates, so do our Schools benefit from a strong cooperation, in teaching as well as in research projects. It is our firm intention to keep developing them in the future, and we know we can count on support: Many, many thanks for your continuing precious help!

Joel Branson

Dean of the Faculty of Social, Political and Economic Sciences – Solvay Business School, VUB

Bruno van Pottelsberghe

Dean of the Faculty Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, ULB

Bruno van Pottelsberghe

Joel Branson

JoAquin AlmuniAJoaquín Almunia is Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Competition (2010-2014). He graduated in Law and Economics at the University of Deusto (Bilbao) and completed postgraduate studies at L’École Practique des Hautes Études de Paris. Having worked as an economist at the Council Bureau of the Spanish Chambers of Commerce in Brussels, in 1976 he went on to become the Chief economist of the Spanish trade union, UGT. From 1979 to 2004 he served as a Member of the Spanish Parliament, in 1982 becoming Minister of Employment and Social Security, and in 1986, Minister of Public Administration. Joaquín Almunia served as leader of the Parliamentary Party from 1994 to 1997, preceding his appointment as leader of the Spanish Socialist Party from 1997 to 2000. In 2000 he stood as Socialist candidate for Prime Minister. A Member of the European Commission since April 2004 (previously as Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs from 2004 to 2010), he is the author of several books and numerous academic articles and press columns.

ShArAn BurrowSharan Burrow was elected as General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in 2010. The ITUC is the world’s peak labour union body and rep-resents 175 million workers in 151 countries and territo-ries and has 305 national affiliates. Prior to this, Sharan held the honorary position of ITUC President since its founding in 2006. Sharan was previously Vice-President of Education International from 1995 to 2000, the inter-national organisation of education unions representing 24 million members.

Sharan began her working life as a teacher, in high schools in regional New South Wales, Australia. She be-came an organiser for the teachers’ union and served on state and national union executives during the 1980s and 1990s. Sharan continued her leadership role in the union movement when she was elected as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) from 2000-2010. She played a critical role in resolving indus-trial disputes, and led union negotiations on major eco-nomic reforms. She was also a key advocate for a na-

tional paid parental leave system.

JoAquin AlmuniA ShArAn Burrow

Keynote speakers will address questions to explore the theme of work flexibility in Europe.

Keynote Speakers

Sergio mArchionneBorn in Italy, raised and educated in Canada, Sergio Marchionne is Chairman and CEO of Chrysler Group LLC and CEO of Fiat S.p.A, as well as Chairman of Fiat Industrial S.p.A. and CNH Global N.V. Mr. Marchionne has dual Canadian–Italian citizenship and an eclectic education – a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Philosophy, in addition to degrees in Law and Commerce. Member of the Board of Fiat S.p.A. since May 2003, he was ap-pointed CEO in June 2004, delivering one of the auto industry’s fastest turnarounds, returning the Italian group to profitability in a period of less than two years. In June 2009, he took the helm at the newly formed Chrysler Group, when the automaker emerged from Chapter 11. Under his leadership, the company has re-turned to profitability and reintroduced the Fiat brand to North America after an absence of almost a quarter of a century. With a career that has spanned both sides of the Atlantic, Sergio Marchionne is now facing one of his greatest professional challenges: to achieve the full and successful integration of Fiat and Chrysler Group, combining an American company and an Italian com-pany to create a multi-national organization that oper-ates in more than 120 countries and employs more than 190,000 people. Mr. Marchionne has also been elected President of the Board of Directors of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) for 2012. He is a member of the Board of Philip Morris International Inc. and of the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics as well as Chairman of the Italian Branch of the Council for the United States and Italy.

chriStoPher PiSSArideSProfessor Christopher Pissarides is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science at the London School of Economics (LSE). He graduated from the University of Essex with a first class BA Economics in 1970 and an MA in 1971. Professor Pissarides is an elected fellow of the British Academy and has published widely on macro economics and the theory of labour markets. In 2005 he became the first European economist to win the IZA Prize in Labor Economics and in 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of markets with search frictions. His book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, now in its second edition, is a standard reference in the economics of unemploy-ment. He has also been a consultant on employment policy and other labour issues for the World Bank, the European Commission, the Bank of England and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

chriStoPher PiSSArideSSergio mArchionne

ProfeSSor luc henSLuc Hens is Professor of Economics at Vesalius College and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He obtained his PhD in economics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and spent a year as chief economist at an investment bank before moving back to academia. He also taught at the University of Ghent, the University of Antwerp, and the Helsinki School of Economics (now inte-grated into Aalto University, Helsinki). His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.

ProfeSSor AndrÉ SAPirAndré Sapir is Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he holds a chair in International Economics and European Integration at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. He is also Senior Fellow of Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank. In addition he serves as vice-chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee and a voting member of the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) established in January 2011. From 2005 to 2009 he was member of the Economic Advisory Group to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. Previously, he worked 12 years for the European Commission, first serving as Economic Advisor to the Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, then as Economic Advisor to President Romano Prodi.

Professors of the Schools will conduct a workshop in the afternoon allowing the participants, specifically registered for that activity to debate with Professor Christopher Pissarides on the future of work in Europe.

Professors

Programme of the day

The congress will start at 14.30 with an afternoon of presentation and debate between Professors PISSARIDES, SAPIR and HENS and a limited number of participants specifically registered for that activity.

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welcome

AcAdemic SeSSion

wAlKing cocKtAil

cloSing dinner

networKing

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17.00 > 17.45

18.00 > 20.45

18.00 introduction by ch. PiSSArideS, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010

18.15 J. AlmuniA, Vice-President and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission

18.45 Sh. Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation

19.15 S. mArchionne, Chief Executive Officer, FIAT S.p.A

19.45 conclusions by ch. PiSSArideS

20.00 question time

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