Orazio Attanasio, a Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, co-Director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Develoment Policies, and Head of the Department of Economics at University College London; and Andrew Chesher, Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice at IFS and UCL, and William Stanley Jevons Professor of Economics and Economic Measurement at UCL will deliver keynote speeches at the  Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and the Latin American Econometric Society (LAMES) annual meetings. The meetings will be held in the EAFIT campus in the city of Medellin in Colombia between 10 and 12 November.