<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/blog/2026/warwick-economics-summit-insights.php" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>03/06/2026 01:40:17 PM</pubDate><title>Warwick: Inside Europe’s Premier Student Policy Forum</title><description>Webster Vienna student Nelly Hashemi shares insights from the Warwick Economics Summit 2026, one of Europe’s most selective student-led forums on economics, geopolitics and public policy. Hashemi represented Webster alongside her professional roles with Global Neighbours and UN Women Austria. The summit convened influential global leaders including Financial Times CEO Jon Slade, Nestlé CFO Anna Manz, Citigroup Global Chief Economist Nathan Sheets, ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn and Nobel Prize–winning economist Philippe Aghion. Through research-driven questions and discussions, Hashemi engaged speakers on key issues such as misinformation in information markets, structural blind spots in global economic indicators and the economic implications of protectionism.</description><author/><image><img src="/blog/images/warwick2026b.jpg" alt="Three students at the Warwick Economics Summit"/></image><tags><tag>vienna</tag></tags></item>