In this issue:

01 FROM THE PRESIDENT A Letter from the new RES President, Imran Rasul

02 CONFERENCE REPORT A report on the 2025 Annual Conference, held in Birmingham earlier this summer

09 LETTER FROM GERMANY Michael Burda writes from Germany for the 11th and final time, on recent developments

12 CONTROLLING CONTAGION Sheilagh Ogilvie on the institutional ecosystem of a pandemic

14 THE PROFILE In our latest profile, we put our questions to Sir Christopher Pissarides

16 BRIDGING Dan Rogger describes some of the tensions in bridging research and policy in economics

18 GROWTH AND TRUST Why the global growth slowdown is bad news for trust in government

20 ALBERT HIRSCHMAN Elisa Grandi writes about the life and work of a wide-ranging thinker

23 CULTURAL CHANGE Stefania Paredes Fuentes and the RES Office on active bystanders

24 WOMEN’S COMMITTEE A report on the second Annual UK Women in Economics Networking Event

26 NEWS AND EVENTS Coverage of recent news and events in the world of economics and the Society

28 THE ECONOMETRICS JOURNAL A year in the life of The Econometrics Journal