Geopolitics Unscripted by Carsten Colombier: From Baumol to Brussels – Can Health Systems Survive Geopolitical Pressure?

Dr. Colombier will explore how rising geopolitical tensions are reshaping the economic landscape for public health systems. Drawing on his experience as Economic Adviser at the Federal Department of Finance in Switzerland and insights from European policy debates, he will examine the fragility and resilience of health systems in an era of fiscal constraints and global uncertainty.

This public lecture will appeal to those interested in the intersection of economics, public policy, and international affairs.

About the Speaker

Since 2002, Dr. Colombier has worked as a researcher and adviser for the Swiss Ministry of Finance (Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland). He graduated from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1993 with a Master's degree in economics. He was a research assistant from 1994 to 2000 at the Chair of Public Economics and Business Taxation of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, and from 2000 to 2002 at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He obtained his doctorate in 1999. In 2010, he was appointed as a FiFo Policy Fellow at the FiFo – Institute for Public Economics of the University of Cologne, Germany.

Dr. Colombier specializes in the fields of public and health economics, and macroeconomics. In his PhD thesis, Dr. Colombier developed a consistently designed economic concept of public intermediate goods such as infrastructure or foundational research. He explores the economic impact of fiscal policy and questions surrounding fiscal sustainability. Related areas of his research are fiscal rules, Baumol's cost disease, currency areas, the determinants of healthcare expenditure, and the economic impact and fiscal sustainability of health systems.

Geopolitics Unscripted

Each month, we welcome a speaker from a different part of the world to challenge conventional narratives and offer unfiltered insights into global geopolitical issues.

This on-site event is open to anyone interested in the subject. Feel free to attend and deepen your understanding of geopolitical topics.

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