International Roundtable on the EV Battery industry and its implications for the Future of Work

There are more than 300 new gigafactories in the pipeline for the next ten years for a total forecast capacity of more than 8 Terawatt hours, roughly equivalent to 800,000 new direct jobs. In less than a decade, the EV battery industry will replace the conventional powertrain industry as one of the main employer of the automotive sector.

The purpose of this international roundtable is to start a collective discussion within the Gerpisa international network on the consequences of this dramatic transformation of the automotive sector for the future of work and employment.

The roundtable is chaired by Thomas Klier, Senior Economist and Economic Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
The participants are:

Kristin Dziczek, policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Boy Lüthje, professor at the Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (SYSU)
Marc Alochet, associated researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique (CRG)
Tommaso Pardi, director of Gerpisa and senior researcher at the CNRS