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Peter Howitt

2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Professor Emeritus of Economics, Brown University; Innovation, Competition & Growth Expert

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Speaker Peter Howitt is a distinguished economist and 2025 Nobel Laureate whose research has reshaped how we understand innovation and long-term growth. As co-author of the theory of creative destruction, he explains how new ideas, competition, and adaptation drive economic progress. His engaging talks help audiences connect economic theory to real-world challenges, showing how innovation fuels resilience and prosperity.

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    Peter Howitt biography

    Nobel Prize speaker Peter Howitt is one of the world’s most influential voices on innovation, disruption, and long-term economic growth. A 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences —an award he shared with Philippe Aghion and Joel Mokyr— he helped transform how economists, business leaders, and policymakers understand the engine of prosperity. For Howitt, growth is not the slow accumulation of capital, but a relentless process of creative destruction in which new ideas and technologies continuously replace the old.

    His pioneering work with Philippe Aghion created the Schumpeterian theory of growth, now a cornerstone of modern economics. This framework is used by governments, central banks, and global corporations to understand how competition shapes innovation, how firms rise and fall, and how technological change drives productivity. Their research reveals why economies thrive when they reward experimentation and adaptability —and why the same forces that generate progress can also destabilize industries, displace workers, and test institutions.

    Throughout his career, Howitt has been a central figure in the field. He is Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Brown University, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. He has served as president of the Canadian Economics Association and as editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, contributing significantly to macroeconomics and growth theory.

    As a speaker, Peter Howitt is admired for his ability to distill decades of economic insight into clear, practical guidance for leaders navigating disruption. He shows how innovation can be managed rather than feared, why competition policy matters more than ever in a digital economy, and how societies can keep pace with accelerating technological change. With intellectual depth, clarity, and a warm, engaging style, he invites audiences to rethink how growth happens —and who benefits from it.

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    Peter Howitt - Creative Destruction and US Economic Growth
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    Peter Howitt Keynote Topics

    Peter Howitt examines how artificial intelligence is accelerating the very process of creative destruction that underpins modern economic growth. He explains why AI has “tremendous potential for creative destruction”: its ability to replace outdated technologies, reshape industries, and redefine the capabilities of firms and workers. Drawing on his Schumpeterian framework, Howitt explores which sectors are most exposed to rapid disruption, how AI can generate powerful productivity gains, and why societies must adapt their institutions to manage this transition. Audiences gain a clear, evidence-based view of how AI will alter competition, innovation, employment, and long-term prosperity —and what leaders can do today to harness its benefits while mitigating its risks.

    Peter Howitt draws on his foundational work with Philippe Aghion to explain how cycles of innovation continually replace outdated technologies and fuel economic expansion. He explores how competition, firm dynamics, and policy shape these waves of change. Audiences gain a clear understanding of how economies adapt and remain resilient through continual disruption, renewal, and productivity growth.

    Howitt blends his contributions to macroeconomics with his research on innovation to examine how short-term fluctuations interact with long-term growth trajectories. He analyzes how monetary policy, demand shocks, and business cycles influence innovation incentives. This keynote helps audiences understand why managing the present is essential for shaping the future.

    In this forward-looking talk, Howitt explores how institutions —from regulation and competition policy to education systems— determine whether innovation leads to broad-based prosperity. He explains how to design policies so that creative destruction fosters progress rather than inequality. With clarity and depth, he shows what it takes for economies to harness innovation while ensuring that growth is inclusive and sustainable.

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