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Webinar: Managing your business in the face of global challenges

Public debt and international trade: navigating an interdependent world

In an ever-changing global economic context, marked by successive crises, persistent inflation, housing market tensions and growing public debt, business leaders face major challenges. This cycle of three webinars aims to provide UCO alumni with keys to understanding how to navigate this complex environment, based on the analyses of Dr Karl-Friedrich Israel, economic policy expert and lecturer at the Université catholique de l'Ouest.

On Tuesday November 4, 2025, take part in the third webinar in our series on the theme of public debt and international trade.

Growing public debt and tensions in international trade are redefining the rules of the game for companies.

In this webinar, Dr Karl-Friedrich Israel will examine the implications of sovereign debt for economic stability and competitiveness, while also analyzing recent developments in global trade relations. This session will offer insights into how companies can adapt to a rapidly changing economic environment.

Free of charge and open to all graduates of the Université catholique de l'Ouest, this workshop will be held from 12.45pm to 1.45pm (Paris time). After a 45-minute presentation, there will be 15 minutes for questions and answers.

Tuesday 4 November 2025
12:45 - 13:45 (GMT +2)
Registration deadline : 4th November
Online event
  • Free

Speakers
Karl-Friedrich Israel
Senior lecturer at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest (UCO) in Angers, France

Currently Senior Lecturer at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest (UCO) in Angers, Karl-Friedrich Israel previously held visiting professorships at the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Leipzig, and at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. visiting professorships at Leipzig University's Institute for Economic Policy, and at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany.

He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Berlin, Paris and Oxford, before defending a doctoral thesis in economics at the University of Angers in 2017, focusing on the costs and benefits of central banking. He obtained his habilitation to direct research (HDR) from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2023, for his work on the concept of monetary neutrality and the perverse effects of monetary policy.

His research interests mainly cover macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, economic methodology, econometrics and the Austrian school of economics.

Tuesday 4 November 2025
12:45 - 13:45 (GMT +2)
Registration deadline : 4th November
Online event
  • Free

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