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European Wellbeing Summit 2010
Measuring the Emotional Economy in the 21st Century
Brussels, 19 - 20 May 2010
In light of today's global challenges and the current economic turmoil, and given its manifold positive outcomes at all levels, measuring citizens' wellbeing and quality of life have become essential to policy-making, where the rigorous development of meaningful indicators thus become a primary policy imperative.
On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, Gallup looks into some of the most pressing questions in this day and age: What makes people happy? Are there universal factors that determine life satisfaction and how can we measure wellbeing? What are desirable outcomes both at micro and macro levels? Is putting constituencies' wellbeing at the heart of policy-making a political utopia or a necessary paradigm shift?
The Gallup's European Wellbeing Summit on wellbeing will bring together European policymakers, world-renowned research scientists, including Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and Gallup Senior scientist Daniel Kahneman, and recognised leaders from the private and public sectors, the healthcare industry and government. The aim of this gathering is to enhance the understanding of crucial issues that affect the wellbeing of Europeans and the world's 7 billion citizens and provide a thorough understanding of its many desirable outcomes and how wellbeing and behavioural economics measurements can be used to develop stable communities, and grow successful and sustainable economies, cities and organisations.
Forum participants will also be invited to help identify future research directions, cross-sector partnerships, and necessary next steps in the transformation of health and education systems in the European Union and countries around the world.
Latest research findings in the field of wellbeing and general announcements will also be made public during these two days notably regarding the creation of the Gallup Institute for Advanced Behavioural Studies in Luxembourg.
SUMMIT SITE
Venue
Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Palais des Académies - Rue Ducale, 1 - 1000 Brussels
Contact
Louis de Schorlemer, Director of Communications, Europe
Tel: + 32 2 734 54 18
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 19 May
09.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.10 Opening
10.10 - 10.20 Research dialogue
10.10 - 11.00 Policy and Behavioural Economics case studies: From the Wealth of Nations to the Land of Wellbeing
11.00 - 12.00 Panel discussion: How should we define wellbeing and what are its components? What are its desirable outcomes at individual and societal levels?
12.00 - 12.30 Open debate
12.30 - 13.45 Lunch
13.45 - 14.45 Policy and Behavioural Economics case studies: Can we put the individual's wellbeing into index metrics? How does Europe fare in terms of wellbeing vs. some of its global partners?
14.45 - 15.15 Open debate
15.15 - 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 - 16.00 Research Dialogue
16.00 - 17.00 Panel discussion: Putting constituencies' wellbeing at the heart of policy-making: Political utopia or necessary paradigm shift?
17.00 - 17.30 Open debate
17.30 - 17.45 Closing remarks
17.45 - 19.00 Reception
19.00 Speakers' dinner (by invitation only)
Thursday 20 May
08.30 - 09.00 Registration
09.00 - 09.10 Opening & Keynote
09.10 - 09.40 Policy and Behavioural Economics case studies: Wellbeing despite, at or through work?
09.40 - 10.00 Open debate
10.00 - 10.30 Policy and Behavioural Economics case studies: To what extent does health relate to wellbeing and economic performance?
10.30 - 10.50 Open debate
10.50- 11.10 Coffee break
11.10 - 12.00 Panel discussion: Learning to be happy; how can research on wellbeing impact educational policy?
12.00 - 12.30 Open debate
12.30 - 13.20 The next steps needed for new metrics to measure European wellbeing "beyond GDP"
13.20 - 13.30 Closing remarks
13.30 - 14.30 Refreshments
(Subject to changes)
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Jim Clifton (Chairman and CEO, The Gallup Organization)
Mihaily Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D. (Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Director, Quality of Life Research Center)
Ed Diener, Ph.D. (Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois, President of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, Senior Scientist, Gallup)
Gilda Farrell (Head of Social Cohesion Research and Development Division, Directorate-General of Social Cohesion, Council of Europe)
Thomas Fischer (Executive Director, Bertelsmann Stiftung)
Marc Fleurbaey, Ph.D. (Research Director, Centre de Recherche Sens, Ethique, Société, CNRS and former Member of the Stieglitz and Sen's Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress)
John Harris (Senior Vice President Innovations and Chief Wellness Officer, Healthways Inc.)
Eric Harrison, PhD. (Senior Research Fellow, Center for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London)
James K. Harter, Ph.D. (Chief Scientist Workplace Management and Wellbeing, Gallup)
Tom Healy, Ph.D. (Senior Statistician, Ireland's Departement of Education and Skills)
Anders Hingel (Head of Unit, Analysis and Studies, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission)
Ralf Jacob (Head of Unit, Social and Demographic Analysis, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission)
Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. (Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Senior scientist, Gallup)
Jorma Karppinen (Director, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions)
Orsolya Lelkes, Ph.D. (Research Fellow and Economic Policy Analyst, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research and former Head of the Economic Research Unit at the Ministry of Finance, Hungary)
Robert Manchin (Director, Gallup Europe)
Nic Marks (Founder of the Centre for Wellbeing and Lead author of New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet Index)
Marco Mira D'Ercol (Chief Statistician, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and former Member of the Stieglitz and Sen's Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress)
Jan Muehlfeit (Chairman, Microsoft Europe)
Agnès Parent-Thirion (Head of the Monitoring and Surveys unit, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions)
Connie Rath (Vice Chair of Gallup, Dean of Gallup University and board member of the Public Education Network)
Jürgen Scheftlein (Policy Officer, Health Determinants, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers, European Commission)
Claus Sorensen (Director-General for Communication, European Commission)
Rajesh Srinivasan, Ph.D. (Regional Director, Asia, Gallup World Poll, Gallup)
Istvan Pal Székely (Director, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission)
Robert D. Tortora, Ph.D. (Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Poll, Gallup)
Robert Verrue (Director-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission)
Gabriella Vukovic, Ph.D. (Director, Demo-Stat Consultants - Social Studies, Demography, Statistics)
Joachim Winter, Ph.D. (Professor of Economics, University of Munich)
Tao Wu, Ph.D. (Senior Research Director, Gallup China)
Oliver Zwirner (Policy Officer, Indicators, Statistics, Beyond GDP, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission)
