IER's Bernard Casey gave a presentation at the conference "The Cyprus Economy at a Time of European Uncertainty: Managing Reform and Sustainability", organised by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and held at LSE on 10-2-12. His talk on "The Fiscal Implications of Demographic Change" gave an overview of the challenges of addressing pension and care provision for Cyprus's ageing population. Other presenters at the event included the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Republic of Cyprus, Prof. Chris Pissarides, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics, the head of sovereign debt rating for Europe, Middle East and Africa from Standard & Poor's, experts from the World Bank and the European Commission and academics from the University of Cyprus.

Bernard Casey has been invited to speak on the challenges of workforce ageing at the HRSDC Knowledge Talks Series on 18 August. HRSDC is the Canadian Federal Ministry for Human Resources and Skills Development. David McGovern, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, will be chairing the session. The event is part of HRSDC's efforts to create space for continuous policy conversation on key government and departmental priorities.

Bernard Casey is an invited speaker at the upcoming Social Policy In An Aging Society: The Multiple Challenges Of Demographic Change conference organised by the Queen’s International Institute Of Social Policy. He will be speaking on ‘Population aging, the labour market and income for the elderly’. The conference is to be held at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario on 15-17 August.