Podcasts

One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage

Michael Crick, journalist and broadcaster, discusses with Professor Tony Travers his new biography One Party After Another: the Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage.

Date: Wednesday 2 March 2022.

My Secret Brexit Diary

In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU's chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what Brexit would really mean. The result would change Britain and Europe forever. During the 1600 days of complex and often acrimonious negotiations, Michel Barnier kept a secret diary. He recorded his private hopes and fears, and gave a blow-by-blow account as the negotiations oscillated between consensus and disagreement, transparency and lies.

Date: Monday 27 September 2021

UK Market Regulation After Brexit: higher, lower or stay the same?

How best can the UK economy compete in the world of the future? What model of market regulation should we seek and can we realistically attain? And, over what time scale? How far might the UK’s strategy be blown off course by wider, exogenous pressures or by domestic pushback? What accommodation should we seek in regulatory standards with our external partners? The panel will discussed the prospects for the future, the opportunities and the threats.

Date: Tuesday 9 March 2021

How Was Brexit For You? A Reflection On What We Learnt

Brexit represents the biggest systemic shock to the UK economy, society and politics for generations. Adapting to the 2016 referendum result has confronted established assumptions about the system, created the need to shift behaviours, and raised new questions about the model to be championed – while institutions struggle with new policy dilemmas, often of a transformative nature. So, what are we learning and what do we still need to learn if the UK is to make a success of Brexit? The panel will consider the changes occurring across government, the economy and society.

Date: Wednesday 17 February 2021

Outside the EU: options for Britain

In the debates about the UK’s future relationship with the European Union, all sorts of possible alternatives have been bandied about, from “Singapore on the Thames” to “Canada Plus”, from “Switzerland” to “Ukraine”, from “Norway” to “Australia”. But what do these alternative relationship models really consist of and would they be viable for the UK? This event discusses the various options available to the UK, as outlined in Martin Westlake's book Outside the EU: options for Britain.

Date: Tuesday 9 February 2021

The Impact of Brexit on Higher Education

Universities increasingly compete in globalised markets. The EU has encouraged student mobility through programmes like Erasmus. Graduate students, in particular, seek education across Europe. Researchers collaborate in increasingly dense cross-national networks. What impact might Brexit have on students and research? What might universities themselves do to mitigate the impact of any new barriers? How can the UK best compete internationally? Our panel will consider where we are and where we might be heading.

Date: Monday 25 January 2021

The 'True' Brexit: where are we now?

Speakers: Professor Katy Hayward, Professor of Political Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast and a Senior Fellow at ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’; Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Advisor at the Centre for Economics and Business Research and former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service; Jill Rutter, Senior Research Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe; Professor Tony Travers is Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE.

Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor in European Politics and the Director of the Hellenic Observatory.

Date: Thursday 10 December

After Brexit: the UK in the North Atlantic trade triangle

Speakers: Anthony Gardner, former US Ambassador to the European Union; Beatrice Kilroy-Nolan, former senior EU and trade advisor to the Prime Minister in No.10 Downing Street; Luisa Santos, Deputy Director General at BusinessEurope.

Date: Thursday 12 November 2020

Brexit and Culture Wars: is this a new 'normal'?

Speakers: Professor John Denham, Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics at the University of Southampton and former Labour cabinet minister; Professor Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and professor in the Department of Government and the European Institute; Chaminda Jayanetti, politics, social policy and public services journalist who has been published in The Guardian, The Independent, and The Observer.

Date: Monday 05 October 2020

Beveridge 2.0: changing labour markets and the future of social protection

Join our panellists as they come together to discuss the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, "Changing labour markets and the future of social protection"

Date: Tuesday 5 March 2024

Ukraine: the war that changed the world

Few predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even fewer thought it would still be going on 18 months later. A panel of LSE experts discuss the fact that there is however almost complete agreement that what began as a regional conflict has changed the world forever.

Date: Monday 2 October 2023

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Shaping a 21st Century Policy Consensus

This panel comprised of distinguished experts who discussed key emerging priorities and challenges across a number of policy areas for countries around the globe and reflected on not just what these policy priorities are and why, but also on how they can be implemented. This event was part of the London Consesnsus 2023 workshop also hosted by the LSE School of Public Policy for the Beveridge 2.0 initiative.

Date: Thursday 04 May 2023

Beveridge 2.0: Tax Justice

In this event, the panel discusses the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Tax Justice, and reflect on what shapes public demand for tax justice, its relation to tackling inequality and the challenges posed by taxing the super-rich.

Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022

Wellbeing as a Goal of Public Policy

The speakers discuss the issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Wellbeing. This issue discusses the extent to which wellbeing considerations can (and should) inform policy decisions.

Date: Tuesday 18 January 2022.

Reciprocity and the Welfare State

In this event, an inter-disciplinary panel of public policy experts dicussed the relationships between individuals, across generations, with welfare state institutions.

Date: Tuesday 28 September 2021

Beveridge 2.0: Doing Good and Doing Well: Individual and Organisational Motivations for Public Benefit

While the role the public sector has been highlighted in face of current challenges, individuals, private and third sector organisations have also played a critical role in creating positive social and environmental impacts and, more generally, promoting the public good. This webinar explores the motivations and incentive structures that private individuals and organizations have to contribute to public benefit.

Date: Monday 22 March 2021

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Beveridge 2.0: the supportive state

Panellists come together to discuss the latest issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: The Supportive State. Beveridge 2.0: The Supportive State is the second issue of the LSEPPR, a brand new public policy journal hosted by the School of Public Policy at LSE and published by LSE Press. The LSEPPR publishes thematic issues, bringing together policy-relevant research from across the social sciences.

Date: Wednesday 13 January 2021

Populism in the Post-COVID-19 World

Speakers: Professor Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor in the Department of Government and the European Institute; Dr Michael Ignatieff, Canadian author, academic and former politician, rector and President of Central European University; Rt Hon Jesse Norman, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, responsible for HM Revenue and Customs and the National Infrastructure Strategy; Professor Andrés Velasco, Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy, LSE.

Date: Thursday 23 July 2020

Populism: causes and responses

In this event, a panel of leading academics analysed the socio-economics of the wave of populism that swept across the democratic world in 2019.

Date: Thursday 19 September 2019

Emerging Europe's Chronic Distrust: lessons from the region's COVID-19 puzzle

This event marked the launch of the new edited volume Emerging Europe's chronic distrust: Lessons from the region's COVID puzzle, a compendium that has emerged from a joint workshop with researchers from Corvinus University, Budapest, and LSE and investigates the pandemic in central and eastern Europe.

Date: Thursday 16 February 2023

Knowledge Diffusion as a Cornerstone of Economic Recovery in the Post-COVID World

In this public event celebrating the launch of the Growth Co-Lab at LSE, a panel of high-level government officials and academic experts discusses knowledge diffusion as a cornerstone of economic recovery and growth in the post-COVID world.

Date: Monday 21 March 2022.

After the Virus: lessons from the past for a better future

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies in 2020? Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter discuss their book in which they reveal the deep roots of our vulnerability and set out a powerful manifesto for change post-Covid-19.

Date: Tuesday 1 February 2022.

Wellbeing as a Goal of Public Policy

The speakers discuss the issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Wellbeing. This issue discusses the extent to which wellbeing considerations can (and should) inform policy decisions.

Date: Tuesday 18 January 2022.

Opportunities for Stronger and Sustainable Post-Pandemic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

This panel from the IDB and LSE discuss the 2021 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report and its diagnosis of a rapidly changing environment and policy recommendations aimed to bring relief, maintain economic stability, and keep the core of the economy intact.

Date: Thursday 7 October 2021

Seven Ways to Change the World - How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face

In his newest book, Gordon Brown states that there are seven major global problems we must address: global health; climate change and environmental damage; nuclear proliferation; global financial instability; the humanitarian crisis and global poverty; the barriers to education and opportunity; and global inequality and its biggest manifestation, global tax havens. Each one presents an immense challenge that requires an urgent global response and solution. All should be on the world’s agenda today. None can be solved by one nation acting on its own, but all can be addressed if we work together as a global community.

Date: Tuesday 6 July 2021

Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Scholars from across the School explore a range of key questions the pandemic has raised - from the factors shaping government responses and collective behaviour, to the relationship between policy-making and scientific evidence; from the impact of the pandemic on economic policy and employment, to how it intersected with inequalities related, for instance, to gender or ethnicity.

Date: Tuesday 29 June 2021

Liars: falsehood and free speech in an age of deception

Voter fraud, the legitimacy of COVID-19, and fake news are just a few examples of the lies that have recently been spreading like wildfire. Lying has been around for as long as we can remember but today is different, and in many respects, worse. Falsehoods are amplified as never before through powerful social media platforms that reach billions. And unfriendly governments, including Russia, are circulating lies in order to destabilize other nations, including the United Kingdom and the United States. In the face of those problems, Cass Sunstein probes the fundamental question of how we can deter lies while also protecting freedom of speech in his new book Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception.

Date: Thursday 27 May 2021

Rescue: from global crisis to a better world

We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of COVID-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. This event event explored Ian Goldin's latest book, Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World.

Date: Wednesday 26 May 2021

Doom: the politics of catastrophe

Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, network science and cliodynamics, Niall Ferguson's new book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe offers not just a history but a general theory of disaster.

Date: Thursday 20 May 2021

Lessons Learnt from the Pandemic

Over a year on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, what key lessons have been learnt that should shape the policies that national and global actors should pursue.

Date: Thursday 13 May 2021

How to Make COVID-19 Vaccination a Success? Policy Priorities and Implementation from Israel and Around the World

With several vaccines against the COVID-19 virus finally available around the world, the next big challenge is how to swiftly and safely distribute them with the right priority both nationally and globally. Israel presently leads the world having vaccinated over 25 percent of its population, and other countries - primarily the United Kingdom - have embarked on a concentrated mass effort. However, even countries with a successful vaccination programme jump-start are now racing against time with the rapid spread of new variants of the virus that have necessitated the most stringent lockdowns to date.

This panel of renowned experts discuss policy options and strategies for expedited mass vaccination, the extent the current lockdowns support these strategies while impacting the economy, and what constitutes real success - and ultimately victory - over the virus around the globe.

Date: Tuesday 27 January 2021

Living with COVID-19: four futures, five contexts

Speakers: Dr Caroline Buckee, Associate Professor, Harvard University; Astrid Haas, Policy Director, International Growth Centre, LSE/Oxford; Professor Edward Holmes, University of Sydney; and Professor Gabriel Leung, Dean, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.

Date: Friday 25 September 2020

Innovation and Inclusive Growth: COVID-19 as a window of opportunity

Speakers: Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation & Public Value, University College London (UCL), and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose; Lord David Sainsbury, former Finance Director and Chairman, J. Sainsbury plc, and founder of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and Institute for Government; Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister in the Singapore Cabinet and former Deputy Prime Minister.

Date: Friday 11 September 2020

Populism in the Post-COVID-19 World

Date: Thursday 23 July 2020

How to Reform the WTO?

Speakers: Jesus Seade, candidate for WTO Director-General, Chief Negotiator of the USMCA, and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico; Sir Vince Cable, Professor in Practice at the Institute of Global Affairs, LSE, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (2010-2015).

Date: Monday 20 July 2020

Journalism, Power and Pandemic

Speakers: Anushka Asthana, editor-at-large for The Guardian, and host of the daily news podcast, Today in Focus; Pippa Crerar, Political Editor of the Daily Mirror and Parliamentary Press Gallery chair; Annette Dittert, London Bureau Chief of ARD; Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet; Craig Oliver, former No10 Director of Politics & Communications and Editor of BBC News at 6pm & 10pm.

Date: Wednesday 15 July 2020

Prospects for the UK Economy and Public Spending After COVID-19: new austerity or a new economy?

Speakers: Stephanie Flanders, Senior Executive Editor for Economics at Bloomberg and Head of Bloomberg Economics; Professor Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE; Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government.

Date: Friday 10 July 2020

Policies to Fight the Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

Speakers: Malcolm Geere, Inter-American Development Bank Executive Director for the United Kingdom; Dr Eric Parrado Herrera, Chief Economist and General Manager of the Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank; Dr Victoria Nuguer, Senior Researcher, Inter-American Development Bank’s Research Department; Dr Andrew Powell, Principal Advisor in the Research Department (RES), Inter-American Development Bank; Professor Andrés Velasco, Dean, School of Public Policy, LSE.

Date: Tuesday 7 July 2020

Negotiating Our Post-Brexit Future: where are we heading?

Speakers: Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union and Labour Law, University of Cambridge; Dr Meredith Crowley, Reader in International Economics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe (UKCE); Dr Adam Marshall, Director General of British Chambers of Commerce; Professor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London, and Director of The UK in a Changing Europe; Professor Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE.

Date: Tuesday 30 June 2020

Life After COVID-19: challenges and policy response

Speakers: Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, former President of Chile (2006–2010 and 2014–2018); Helen Clark, global leader on sustainable development, gender equality and international co-operation, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999 and 2008); Matteo Renzi, Italian Senator for Florence, former Prime Minister of Italy (February 2014-December 2016); Kevin Rudd, President of Asia Society Policy Institute, Australia’s 26th Prime Minister (2007-2010, 2013); Dame Minouche Shafik, LSE Director.

Date: Friday 26 June 2020

Do we have the WHO we need? Global Health Governance and Reform

Speakers: Dr Lucie Gadenne, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick and Affiliate, CEPR; Professor Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor, LSE and Fellow, CEPR; Professor Rebecca Kataz, Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University Medical Center; Dr Clare Wenham, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy, LSE.

Date: Thursday 25 June 2020

COVID-19 in South Asia: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan

Speakers: Tania Aidrus, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, Digital Pakistan; Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi; Professor Jishnu Das, Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and Professor Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics,Yale University.

Date: Monday 22 June 2020

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Brexit and the Post-COVID-19 Options for the Economy

Speakers: Professor Sir Tim Besley, School Professor of Economics of Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics, Department of Economics, LSE; Wolfgang Münchau, Director of Eurointelligence and columnist for the Financial Times; Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Advisor, Centre for Economics and Business Research and former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service.

Date: Monday 22 June 2020

Financing the Post-COVID-19 Recovery

Speakers: Dr Simeon Djankov, Co-Director for Policy and Research Fellow, Financial Markets Group, LSE and deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Bulgaria (2009 to 2013); Anne-Laure Kiechel, Global Sovereign Advisory; Professor Ugo Panizza, Professor of Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Dr Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Deputy Director in the Strategy, Policy and Review Department, IMF.

Date: Friday 19 June 2020

How did we end up here? Governance lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

Speakers: Professor Karolina Ekholm, Stockholm University and Fellow, CEPR; Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust; Professor Bengt Holmström, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT; Professor Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh.

Date: Thursday 18 June 2020

Crucial Role of State Capacity in Crisis Response

Speakers: Professor Tim Besley, School Professor of Economics of Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics, Department of Economics, LSE; Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE; Professor Margaret Levi, Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.

Date: Tuesday 16 June 2020

Digital Currencies and Stable Coins as Crisis Management Tools

Speakers: Benoît Cœuré, Head of the Innovations Hub, Bank for International Settlements; Christina Segal-Knowles, Executive Director for Financial Markets Infrastructure, Bank of England; Professor Ricardo Reis, A. W. Phillips Professor of Economics, LSE and Fellow, CEPR.

Date: Thursday 11 June 2020

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Fiscal Policies to Support People and Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Speakers: Simeon Djankov, Research Fellow, Financial Markets Group, LSE; W. Raphael Lam, Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF; Catherine Pattillo, Assistant Director, Fiscal Affairs Department and Chief of the Fiscal Policy and Surveillance Division, IMF; Mehdi Raissi, Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF.

Date: Monday 8 June 2020

Shrinking Capitalism

Speakers: Professor Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics, College de France; Professor Samuel Bowles, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Professor Wendy Carlin, Professor of Economics, University College London; Professor David Soskice, Professor, LSE School Professor of Economics and Political Science, LSE.

Date: Thursday 4 June 2020

The Political Economy of COVID-19 – what do we learn from Emerging Europe?

Speakers: Professor Selva Demiralp, Koc University; Professor Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po and Fellow, CEPR; Professor Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Fellow, CEPR; Dr Kori Udovicki, Chair, Center for Advanced Economic Studies (CEVES) and former Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia.

Date: Thursday 28 May 2020

Addressing the Pandemic: the pharmaceutical challenges

Speakers: Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Director of Global Health Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development; Dr Panos Kanavos, Associate Professor of International Health Policy, Department of Health Policy (LSE) and Deputy Director, LSE Health; Professor Margaret Kyle, Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology, MINES ParisTech; Professor Ken Shadlen, Professor of Development Studies and Head of Department, Department of International Development, LSE.

Date: Tuesday 26 May 2020

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Responding to a Pandemic: the view from Latin America

Speakers: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil, 1995-2002; Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica, 2010-2014; Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile, 2000-2006; Juan Manuel Santos, President of the Republic of Colombia, 2010-2018; Dr Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico, 1994 to 2000.

Date: Friday 22 May 2020

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Recovering from COVID-19: China and global value chains

Speakers: Professor Pol Antrás, Harvard University; Davin Chor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College; Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Natixis; Huang Haizhou, National School of Development, Peking University; Jin Keyu, LSE.

Date: Thursday 21 May 2020

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COVID-19: the economic policy response

Speakers: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE; Professor Ricardo Reis, Arthur Williams Phillips Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, LSE; Professor Silvana Tenreyro, Professor in Economics, Department of Economics, LSE.

Date: Monday 18 May 2020

Living with lockdowns: Early lessons from India's Covid-19 response

Speakers: Yamini Aiyar, Centre for Policy Research; Kaushik Basu, Cornell University; Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka University; Maitreesh Ghatak, LSE and CEPR; Debraj Ray, NYU and CEPR.

Date: Thursday 14 May 2020

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The Great Reversal in the Time of COVID-19

Speakers: Professor Thomas Philippon, Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University; and Dr Angelo Martelli, Assistant Professor in European and International Political Economy, European Institute at LSE.

Date: Wednesday 13 May 2020

Strategic Leadership in the Time of COVID-19

Speakers: David Petraeus, Partner at KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute; Professor Michael Barzelay, Professor of Public Management in LSE's Department of Management and Dr Shirley Yu, Senior Visiting Fellow, LSE Institute of Global Affairs.

Date: Monday 11 May 2020

Born Out of Necessity: a debt standstill for COVID-19

Speakers: Professor Patrick Bolton, Professor of Finance and Economics, Imperial College London; Professor Lee Buchheit, Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh Law School; Professor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Professor of Global Management, UC Berkeley; Professor Mitu Gulati, Professor of Law, Duke Law School, Duke University; Professor Ugo Panizza, Professor of Economics and Pictet Chair at the Graduate Institute, Geneva; and Professor Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute of Geneva.

Date: Thursday 7 May 2020

Coronavirus and Brexit: two cases of quarantine?

Speakers: Sir Simon Fraser, former Permanent Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Head of the UK Diplomatic Service; Dr Sara Hagemann, Academic Director for the School of Public Policy, LSE; Professor Christian Lequesne, Professor at the Sciences-Po Centre for International Studies; Professor Brigid Laffan, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI).

Date: Thursday 30 April 2020

The COVID-19 Crisis Response: putting women at the centre

Speakers: Professor Naila Kabeer, Professor of Gender and Development, Department of Gender Studies and Department of International Development, LSE; Sanam Naraghi Anderlini MBE, Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, LSE and Dr Clare Wenham, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy, LSE.

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2020

Fragile States Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic

Speakers: Professor Oriana Bandiera, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, LSE and Director, STICERD; Professor Tim Besley, School Professor of Economics of Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE; Dr Raphael Espinoza, Deputy Division Chief in the Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund; Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, LSE School of Public Policy; Dr Ralph Chami, Assistant Director (ICD), International Monetary Fund; Dr Jonathan Leape, Associate Professor of Economics, LSE and Director, LSE International Growth Centre.

Date: Monday 27 April 2020

COVID-19 and the social contract on North Africa and the Middle East

Speakers: Masood Ahmed, President, Centre for Global Development; Professor Melani Cammett, Chair of the Academy of International and Area Studies, Harvard Univerity; Professor Stephen Hertog, Middle East Centre, LSE; Khalid Abdulla-Janahi, Chairman, Vision 3 and former Deputy Chair of the World Economic Forum Arab Business Forum.

Date: Thursday 23

The Swedish Exception: early lessons from Sweden's different approach to COVID-19

Speakers: Professor Peter Baldwin, New York University of California; Dr Sara Hagemann, Academic Director, LSE School of Public Policy; Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, Rector, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm; Professor Lars Trägårdh, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University, Stockholm.

Date: Wednesday 22 April, 3.30 - 5pm.

Now or Never: crafting the COVID-19 response

Speakers: Rt Hon Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former UK Prime Minister (2007-2010); Dame Minouche Shafik, LSE Director; Professor Lawrence H Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; Professor Andrés Velasco, Dean, School of Public Policy, LSE.

Date: Tuesday 21 April, 4.30pm - 6pm.

What is the Coronavirus telling us about the state in Europe?

Speakers: Dr Joan Costa-Font, Associate Professor in European Politics, European Institute, LSE; Professor Kevin Featherstone, Professor in European Politics, European Institute, LSE; Professor Waltraud Schelkle, Professor in Political Economy, European Institute, LSE.

Date: Thursday 2 April 2020, 6pm - 7.15pm.

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Policy in Practice seminar with Dr Mohammad Haqmal

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: Dr Mohammad Haqmal, Former head of the Strengthening Mechanism Department of the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health, Lecturer at City, University of London, and Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Louise Smith - Supporting arts and culture through COVID

Thursday 15 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: Louise Smith, Deputy Director for Arts and Libraries at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Valeria Gontareva – Comprehensive Banking Sector Reform in Ukraine 2014-2017

Tuesday 8 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: Valeria Gontareva, Former Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine

Chair: Andres Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Dimitri Demekas - Financial Regulation, Climate Change, and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Thursday 3 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: Dimitri Demekas, Visiting Senior Fellow at the SPP

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Rodrigo Cerda

Wednesday 2 February 2022, 18:30-20:00

Speaker: Rodrigo Cerda, Finance Minister of Chile

Chair: Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Hugh Cole

Thursday 18 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: Hugh Cole, Director of Policy and Strategy for the City of Cape Town

Chair: Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice and Academic Director at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Marcela Meléndez

Thursday 11 November 2021, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: Marcela Meléndez, Chief Economist for LAC at the United Nations Development Programme UNDP

Chair: Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice and Academic Director at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado

Thursday 28 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, the first woman elected Vice-President in Panama

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu

Thursday 21 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2009-2014
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with José Antonio Meade

Thursday 14 October 2021, 18:00-19:30

Speaker: José Antonio Meade, former Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the federal government of Mexico

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Alan Elizondo

Thursday 3 June, 17-18:30

Speaker: Alan Elizondo, CEO of FIRA

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Rafat Ali Al-Akhali

Monday 24 May, 17-18:30

Speaker: Rafat Ali Al-Akhali, former Minister of Youth and Sports in the Government of Yemen

Chair: Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Barbara Rambousek

Monday 17 May, 18-19:30

Speaker: Barbara Rambousek, Director of Gender & Economic Inclusion within the Department of Country and Sector Economics at the EBRD

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Alan Hirsch

Monday 10 May, 17-18:30

Speaker: Alan Hirsch, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at UCT in South Africa

Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Policy in Practice seminar with Mirian Vilela

Speaker: Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of the Earth Charter International Secretariat.
Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 4 March 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Carlos Raúl Morales

Speaker: Carlos Raúl Morales, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala 2014 - 2017.
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 25 February 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Sir Peter Hendy

Speaker: Sir Peter Hendy, Chair of Network Rail.
Chair: Professor Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 11 February 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Vanessa Rubio-Márquez

Speaker: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy.
Chair: Professor Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 4 February 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Greg Fischer

Speaker: Greg Fischer, Chief Economist at Y Analytics
Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE

Date: Thursday 3 December 2020

Policy in Practice: How we think, who we trust and what we do… What do public policy professionals need to get better at?

Speaker: Nick Rowley, Former Advisor on Sustainability and Climate change to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE

Date: Thursday 19 November 2020

Policy in Practice: State capacity and what it takes to reform from the grassroots

Speaker: Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive of Centre for Policy Research India
Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE

Date: Thursday 5 November 2020

Policy in Practice: "What I wished I knew then..."

Speaker: Lant Pritchett, RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, UK

Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE

Date: Thursday 29 October 2020

Policy in Practice: Transforming Governance in Africa: Insights from a Personal Journey

Speaker: Jennifer Musisi, City Leader In Residence at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

Date: Thursday 15 October 2020

Rationalising Shopping: Are new patterns of consumption an opportunity for reinventing urbanity?

This final Urban Age Debate addressed fundamental questions of sustainable urban consumption, local economic development, entrepreneurship and placemaking in bringing together leading experts and thinkers in urban retail, design, and sustainable development to discuss the future of retail.

Date: Wednesday 26 January 2022.

Changing Cultures: How are cultural institutions reframing their relationships with audiences, the community and the city?

This Urban Age Debate brought together emerging and established policy makers, academics, and culture leaders to rethink collaboration between the city, community, and culture today and over the next decades.

Date: Wednesday 13 October

Localising Transport: towards the 15-minute city or the one-hour metropolis?

This Urban Age Debate brings together prominent leaders in mobility and economics who have made profound impacts on the shape of cities, to discuss the future of urban transportation and accessibility over the next decade.

Date: Thursday 20 May 2021

Humanising the City: can the design of urban space promote cohesion and healthier lifestyles?

This Urban Age Debate brought together prominent city-shapers and commentators who are committed to making cities more liveable, more democratic and more complex. Using images of recent projects in Mexico City, Mumbai, New York, Moscow and London, architects and urbanists explored the deep connections between the design of public space and social inclusion as cities strive to become more humane, domestic, and home to diverse communities.

Date: Tuesday 27 April 2021

Urban Age Debates: cities in the 2020s

Socialising Remote Work: will changing patterns in knowledge work reduce or amplify the human need to meet in cities?

The debate interrogates the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the dramatic shift in working conditions, how sites of knowledge work have adapted, and how cities can maintain their economic and cultural vibrancy without negatively impacting on productivity, connectivity and personal freedom.

Date: 19 January 2021

How to get government and the private sector to work together for the common good - SPP 2024 Annual Lecture

Podcast by event date

This year's School of Public Policy Annual Lecture guest was Dame Sharon White, former John Lewis Partnership Chairman (Feb 2020 - Sep 2024).

AI in public policy: opportunities and challenges

This event marks the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on future directions, applications, and consequences of the use of AI in public policies

The shortest history of migration

Drawing on his new book The Shortest History of Migration, Ian Goldin shows how, from the ancient peopling of the planet to the present, migrants have been at the heart of advances in society. Identifying both the economic contributions as well as the social costs of migration, he addresses the antipathy shown by some towards foreigners and help develop an understanding of just how vital migration will be in the future.

Date: 24 October 2024

Michael Manley: Visionary Leader and Global Thinker – A Commemorative Lecture

As a former Prime Minister of Jamaica and an LSE alumnus mentored by the renowned Professor Harold Laski, Manley’s leadership was deeply influenced by his academic foundations. This lecture will delve into how his education shaped his vision for a just society, his role in advancing Caribbean political autonomy, and his contributions to global discourse on inequality.

Date: 22 October 2024

Are we entering a 'Westless' world?

How should countries operate in a world of renewed Great Power competition? Even if the West is not in outright decline, its global influence is changing and in some instances waning. Can we expect this process to hasten in the years to come? As war and volatility once again shape international affairs, our LSE panel discusses whether the post-Western moment has come - and if so, what it might mean.

Date: 7 October 2024

100 days to kickstart Britain: what should the government's priorities be? | LSE Festival

The UK’s economy has waned in recent years - low growth and productivity have been coupled with rising inflation and poverty. This event discusses how Britain’s economic model can be re-built to kickstart productivity and tackle the country’s challenges.

Date: Tuesday 11 June

5th LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey

The event provided a platform for researchers and policymakers to discuss new research and features a keynote speech by Professor Ufuk Akçiğit.

Date: Friday 7 June

Lessons for monetary policy from the latest inflationary-disinflationary episode

Event with Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Banco de España and member of the Governing and General Council, ECB.

Date: Wednesday 1 May

Getting schools to work better: Insights and reflections from China and India

This event launches the book Getting Schools to Work Better: Educational Accountability and Teacher Support in India and China by Yifei Yan.

Date: Thursday 21 March

Geopolitics and Trade: Opportunities for Colombia and Latin America

Speakers contextualize the event at the crossroads of a shifting global landscape, in which Colombia stands out as a land of opportunities due to its geographical location, rich biodiversity, and interest in enhancing energy transition, foreign investment, and trade.

Date: Wednesday 20 March

Beveridge 2.0: changing labour markets and the future of social protection

Join our panellists as they come together to discuss the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, "Changing labour markets and the future of social protection"

Date: Tuesday 5 March

Shaping major cities - The challenges of being a Mayor

Running and shaping cities is among the most complex and challenging areas of public policy. What is it like to be a mayor? Hear from Marvin Rees OBE, Mayor of Bristol.

Date: Thursday 29 February

Climate, net zero and the Asian superestates

This events looks at emerging trends and at the political commitment in China and India to net zero.

Date: Thursday 15 February

Recent advances in the understanding of human sociality.

Joseph Heath, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto attempts to show how recent advances move us closer to having a unified scientific understanding of human sociality.

Date: Thursday 1 February

City of Hope - Lessons from Cape Town for the future of South Africa and African cities

In this event Geordin Hill-Lewis, Mayor of Cape Town, will share his lessons from leading this city of five million people. He will explore what the Cape Town experience can tell us about how to get South Africa right and what lessons Cape Town can offer to the rapidly growing cities on the rest of the African continent.

Date: Tuesday 23 January

Changing the status quo- data and radical transformation at the heart of government

Laura Gilbert, Director of Data Science in Number 10 Downing Street, and joint Chief Analyst for the Cabinet Office, shares her experiences of data, analysis, innovation, and adventures in rapid prototyping in central government. She discusses the potential benefits in unlocking government data, and how to achieve it.

Date: Wednesday 6 December

China, India and the Global Order (or disorder)

Professor Vince Cable, Professor Niall Fergusson, Rebecca Nadin, and Dean Andrés Velasco discuss the roles of China and India in a new global landscape.

Date: Thursday 23 November

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Making good law in a time of polycrisis

At a time when the UK faces multiple long-term challenges, from climate change to globalisation, demographic shifts, inequality and artificial intelligence, the Lord Speaker will explain how the House of Lords enables policy-makers to look beyond the five-year electoral cycle.

Date: Monday 20 November

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Demographic and the aging - the impact of ageing on pension systems and on labour markets

Speakers: Nicholas Barr, Professor in Public Economics, LSE; Daiji Kawaguchi, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo; Ito Peng, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Date: Wednesday 15 November

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Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan: Crisis and Conflict in the Context of a New Cold War

For five years, Niall Ferguson has warned of the dangers of a new cold war.There are important differences between Cold War II and Cold War I. In this event Niall Ferguson, visiting professor at the School of Public Policy brings historical perspectives to his analysis of the emergent breakdown of the U.S.-led world order.

Date: Tuesday 7 November

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How did Britain come to this? The accidental logics of Britain's neoliberal settlement

Gwyn Bevan presents his new book from LSE Press. He argues that the interaction of two of Margaret Thatcher's fundemental neoliberal ideas created an accidental logic in which financialised enterprises have exploited rules of the game to maximise profits. And successive governments have failed to develop effective systems of contracting and regulation for privatised utilities; outsourcing; and markets for housing, education and health care.

Date: Wednesday 1 November

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Should central banks have an equality mandate?

Roberto Chang, Visiting Professor at the LSE School of Public Policy and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University discusses the role of a central bank's mandate in attaining social welfare. The evaluation of equality as a central bank goal requires analysing the implications for the incentive properties of the mandate. Such a perspective can justify charging central banks with the reduction of inequality but, at the same time, it delivers novel and unexpected lessons.

Date: Tuesday 31 October

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China and India: economic fall and rise?

Vince Cable, Keyu Jin and Rathin Roy discuss the shift of the global economic centre of gravity towards Asia and the idea that by mid-century it is plausible to assume that China and India will be the world’s dominant economic powers, by size at least, alongside the USA. Inevitably commentators dramatise trends and the talk of ‘Peak China’ and the 'Indian Century’ may be exaggerated or simply wrong.

Date: Tuesday 17 October

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The transition paradox: navigating the path to becoming the world's first fossil-free welfare state

Mikael Damberg, former Swedish Minister for Finance, shares his insights on how Sweden can navigate this intricate path to becoming the world's first fossil-free welfare state. This event explored ways to move towards a greener, more sustainable future that benefits everyone.

Date: Monday 9 October

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The identity trap: a story of ideas and power in our time

Yascha Mounk discusses his new book, The Identity Trap: a story of ideas and power in our time, in which he explores the transformation of a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minorities into an obsession with group identity in all its forms.

Date: Friday 6 October

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Latin America's labyrinth: economic stagnation, populism and the weakening of the democratic centre

Michael Reid is an eminent journalist and commentator, author of influential books on Latin America and the Iberian peninsula, and until recently Latin America editor at The Economist. In this event he discusses he current socio-economic crises faced by Latin American states, the resultant 'new wave' of populism and the rise of populist leaders, and the ever-looming question of 'what next?'

Date: Thursday 5 October

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Ukraine: the war that changed the world

Date: Monday 2 October

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LSE Festival | Rethinking Retirement: public policies to support life changes

For the LSE Festival 2023: People and Change, a panel of inter-disciplinary policy experts discussed UK's approach to the labour force, retirement age, the emotional and psychological impact of being retired, and the public policy framework on retirement.

Date: Monday 12 June 2023

Geopolitics of Energy in the 21st Century

In this event, Helen Thompson, author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21^st Century,
opined on the mutating politics of energy around the world, the impact of Russia's war on Ukraine, the response of the western nations to the energy crisis, and the evolving role of the private sector in the energy markets.

Date: Monday 22 May 2023

Shaping a 21st Century Policy Consensus

Date: Thursday 04 May 2023

How to Be a Successful Economist

This event marked the launch of How to be a Successful Economist, co-authored by Vicky Pryce, Andy Ross, Alvin Birdi and Ian Harwood. The book provides an essential toolkit that guides students on employment and career-building as an economist,

Date: Monday13 March 2023

Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy

This event marked launch of Geoffrey Myers' new book, Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy. Myers explains how to optimise the regulatory design of radio spectrum auctions, from initial planning to final implementation.

Date: Thursday 9 March 2023

Follow the Money: How Much Does Britain Cost?

In this 'in coversation' event, Paul Johnson from the Institute for Fiscal Studies discusses his new book, Follow the Money with the School of Public Policy's Dean, Andres Velasco.

Date: Tuesday 7 March 2023

Emerging Europe's Chronic Distrust: lessons from the region's COVID-19 puzzle

Date: Thursday 16 February 2023

Artificial Intelligence: a New Frontier for Public policy

This event analysed the growing influence of AI in public policy globally. The panel explored the opportunities and challenges policymakers encounter as they navigate the new and rapidly evolving policy landscape in the face of AI.

Date: Monday13 February 2023

Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done

Date: Monday 06 February 2023

The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain

This event marks the launch of Vernon Bogdanor's new book The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain in which he re-thinks the two turbulent decades prior to the First World War that have previously been seen as one of decadence, of the strange death of liberal Britain.

Date: Monday 02 February 2023

Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe

This event marked the launch of Alessio Terzi's new book Growth for Good. Terzi tackles the big questions on the climate emergency; as humanity starts to grapple with the Herculean challenge of climate change, should economic growth be abandoned to stand a chance of success?

Date: Tuesday 17 January 2023

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Beveridge 2.0: Tax Justice

Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022

The Future of Liberalism: in Conversation with Zanny Minton Beddoes

For the 2022 School of Public Policy Annual Lecture, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, discussed the future of liberalism with Andrés Velasco, Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 24 November 2022

Stabilizing the Social Contract: The Case of Chile

In this event, a multi-disciplinary panel discusses the Chilean state, the social contract in democracies, and the challenges of writing a new constitution.

Date:Wednesday 23 November 2022

The Global Trading System in Crisis

This event, co-hosted with LSE Ideas, examined the growth of the global economy in recent decades which has been driven principally by the expansion of global trade and the integration of developing markets into multilateral rules-based global trading system.

Date: Wednesday 16 November 2022

How to be a Politician: In Conversation with Vince Cable

In this event, Sir Vince Cable discussed his new book, How to be a Politician: 2000 Years of Good (and Bad) Advice which, along with his own insights, weaves together the wittiest, wisest and most acerbic political quotations from the last 2,000 years.

Date: Tuesday 15 November 2022

Pension Policy and Governmentality in China: Manufacturing Public Compliance

This event marked the launch of Yan Wang's book Pension Policy and Governmentality in China: Manufacturing public compliance.

Date: Monday 07 November 2022

The UK's 2022 Autumn Economic Crisis: Why Did It Happen and What Next?

In this event, a multi-disicplinary panel of academics, policy experts and economists examined the UK's autumn economic crisis (2022) following the launch of the Liz Truss government's 'mini' budget.

Date: Tuesday 01 November 2022

Global Value Chains for Regional Development: Mobilising Trade and FDI for Economic Development

This event marked the launch of a new book Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development which makes the case for proactive public policies for the engagement with GVCs to the benefit of local communities.

Date: Thursday 27 October 2022

Chip War: the Battle to Control Semi-Conductors

Join Chris Miller and Alexander Evans as they discuss Chris Miller's new book, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology.

Date: Monday 24 October 2022.

In Conversation with Ray Dalio: Looking at Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order and Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Join Ray Dalio and Minouche Shafik in conversation as they deep dive into the findings of Dalio's recent book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.

Date: Monday 26 September 2022.

Reforming the Global Tax System

President’s Biden call for a corporate minimum tax in June last year, and the OECD’s two-pillar programme announced in October, have put the issue of global tax justice back on the policy agenda.

Join David Bradbury, Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD; Professor Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics; Gabriel Zucman, Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California at Berkeley, alongside chair Dr Tasha Fairfield, Associate Professor in Development Studies, LSE, to discuss.

Date: Tuesday 28 June 2022

Ukraine's Wartime Economy and Financial Challenges

LSE Visiting Senior Fellow Valeria Gontareva who is a former Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine will discuss Ukraine's wartime economy and the financial challenges it faces.

Date: Monday 27 June 2022

The Avoidable War

Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia, discusses his new book, The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China, with Andrés Velasco. The Avoidable War demystifies the actions of both sides, explaining and translating them for the benefit of the other. The capacity for either country to cross a fatal line grows daily however geopolitical disaster is still avoidable, only if these two giants can find a way to coexist without betraying their core interests through what Rudd calls “managed strategic competition.”

Date: Friday 24 June 2022

Financing Social Care

A decade after the Dilnot Report called attention to the fact that the finance of social care had been ignored for too long and that the system was "confusing, unfair and unsustainable", the government announced an overhaul to the way adult social care is financed in England.

The government’s proposal, to increase finance for social care through an increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs), has attracted a range of diverging opinions. The speakers will debate current proposals and possible alternatives.

Date: Thursday 16 June 2022.

How We Dollarized Ecuador

Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador, presents his book, How We Dollarized Ecuador (Así dolarizamos al Ecuador).

On 9 January 2000 Jamil Mahuad, then President of Ecuador, announced the dollarization of the Ecuadorian economy, putting end to a crisis of hyperinflation, capital flight and devaluation of the local currency. In this book, former President Mahuad and a group of his aides narrate for the first time the backstage story of this decision.

Date: Monday 6 June 2022.

The UK during the 70-year Reign of Elizabeth II

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee occurs during a period of remarkable social, economic and political upheaval, both in the UK and globally. This panel explored how the UK has changed during the 70 years of the Queen’s reign and will consider how the UK’s: economy, government and politics, social policy and foreign relations have evolved between 1952 and 2022.

Date: Monday 30 May 2022.

Today's Fight for Open Society

For decades, democracy and human-rights advocates have assumed that a growing number of governments were embracing democracy, freedom and the international law. Yet today, 38 percent of the world’s population live in countries which are not free – the highest proportion in a quarter of a century. As the enemies of open society further accelerate their attacks, and Ukraine becomes the frontline in a systems-breaking clash between democracy and authoritarianism, where do we turn next in today’s fight for open society?

Date: Thursday 19 May 2022.

Justice Across Ages

Juliana Bidadanure presents the theory of justice between age groups that she develops in her book Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and old as Equals. The book advances ethical principles to guide a fair distribution of goods like jobs, healthcare, income, and political power among persons at different stages of their life.

Date: Wednesday 18 May 2022.

The House of Contradiction

Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez' The House of Contradiction is a political essay that analyses the brief history of Mexican democracy. Based on deep exploration on the nature of liberal democracy and its contemporary challenges, it ponders the limitations of the two democratic experiences of the twenty first century: the technocratic disfigurement of democracy and the populist demolition of liberal institutions.

Date: Thursday 12 May 2022.

Lessons from Afghanistan

This panel came together to discuss the LSE Public Policy Review special issue on Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace. This publication explores lessons that can be drawn from the fall of the government in Kabul. With pieces by scholars from different disciplinary background, the issue reflects on why the US decided to leave, what this may mean for the Western alliance system, the consequences for women’s rights, the geopolitical fall out, international law, development and the economics of peace.

Date: Wednesday 4 May 2022.

Boosting the Lending Power of Multilateral Development Banks Through Risk Transfer

Long-term development finance provided by Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) is key to advancing the United Nations’ 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. But MDBs have limited capital; their lending is a small fraction of capital flows. Risk Transfer reduces risks on MDB balance sheets harnessing the large resources of alternative investors. This event focusses on the potential and the obstacles for Risk Transfer and the wider implications for development finance.

Date: Tuesday 22 March 2022.

Knowledge Diffusion as a Cornerstone of Economic Recovery in the Post-COVID World

Date: Monday 21 March 2022.

Policy in Practice seminar with Dr Mohammad Haqmal

Speaker: Dr Mohammad Haqmal, Former head of the Strengthening Mechanism Department of the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health, Lecturer at City, University of London, and Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Tuesday 15 March 2022

One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage

Michael Crick, journalist and broadcaster, discusses with Professor Tony Travers his new biography One Party After Another: the Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage.

Date: Wednesday 2 March 2022.

China and the World in the Post-COVID Era: a new agenda of public policy

An interdisciplinary panel of experts discuss key public policy challenges that China and the world faces post-pandemic. Leading scholars of health policy, development economics, urban governance and public administration assess the policy agenda of their respective field in relation to the goal of building ‘common prosperity’ recently proposed by the CCP.

Date: Monday 21 February 2022.

Policy in Practice seminar with Louise Smith - Supporting arts and culture through COVID

Speaker: Louise Smith, Deputy Director for Arts and Libraries at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Thursday 15 February 2022

Policy in Practice seminar with Valeria Gontareva – Comprehensive Banking Sector Reform in Ukraine 2014-2017

Speaker: Valeria Gontareva, Former Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine
Chair: Andres Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy

Date: Tuesday 8 February 2022

Humane: how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war

Professor Samuel Moyn discusses his new book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, in which he exposes the dark side of making war more humane.

Date: Monday 7 February 2022.

Policy in Practice seminar with Dimitri Demekas - Financial Regulation, Climate Change, and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Speaker: Dimitri Demekas, Visiting Senior Fellow at the SPP

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Thursday 3 February 2022

Policy in Practice seminar with Rodrigo Cerda

Speaker: Rodrigo Cerda, Finance Minister of Chile
Chair: Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy

Date: Wednesday 2 February 2022

After the Virus: lessons from the past for a better future

Date: Tuesday 1 February 2022.

Reclaiming Populism: how economic fairness can win back disenchanted voters

Authors Eric Protzer and Paul Summerville discuss their book, which contends that populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens over the world are angry not due to income inequality or immigration, but economic unfairness: the sense of being held back from success because opportunity is not equal and reward is not according to contribution.

Date: Wednesday 26 January 2022.

Rationalising Shopping: Are new patterns of consumption an opportunity for reinventing urbanity?

Date: Wednesday 26 January 2022.

Wellbeing as a Goal of Public Policy

The speakers discuss the issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Wellbeing. This issue discusses the extent to which wellbeing considerations can (and should) inform policy decisions.

Date: Tuesday 18 January 2022.

Policy in Practice seminar with Hugh Cole

Speaker: Hugh Cole, Director of Policy and Strategy for the City of Cape Town
Chair: Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice and Academic Director at the School of Public Policy

Date: Thursday 18 November 2021

What kind of macroeconomics is useful when formulating policy?

Now that COVID-19 is in retreat, and the "special economics" of the pandemic no longer apply; and now that inflation concerns have resurfaced powerfully - what kind of macroeconomics do policymakers need to know? And how should they be taught it?

Date: Tuesday 16 November 2021.

Nicaragua’s Electoral Pantomime: how should Western democracies respond?

On the 7th of November Nicaragua held elections. There are widespread allegations that the elections were neither free nor fair. Named a “pantomime” by US President Biden, denounced as “illegitimate” by Spain and the EU, and “not credible” according to the OAS, over 150 political figures have been imprisoned and opposition parties systematically banned. The speakers discuss the situation on the ground in Nicaragua and appropriate response from Western democracies.

Date: 15 November 2021.

Policy in Practice seminar with Marcela Meléndez

Speaker: Marcela Meléndez, Chief Economist for LAC at the United Nations Development Programme UNDP
Chair: Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice and Academic Director at the School of Public Policy

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future

Alec Ross discusses his latest book, The Raging 2020s, which through interviews with the world’s most influential thinkers and stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, examines the economic and political forces that brought us to where we are today and looks at the trends shaping the decade to come.

Date: Wednesday 10 November 2021.

Social Unrest in Colombia and Chile: causes and cures - Panel 2

Why did Colombia and Chile experience bouts of social unrest and street violence recently? What are the roots of this discontent and what can be done about it? Might a new social contract in those countries provide a way out? Two former presidents, Juan Manuel Santos from Colombia and Ricardo Lagos from Chile, discuss the issues with LSE Director Minouche Shafik and economist Mauricio Cárdenas.

Date: Friday 29 October 2021.

Social Unrest in Colombia and Chile: causes and cures - Panel 1

Why did Colombia and Chile experience bouts of social unrest and street violence recently? What are the roots of this discontent and what can be done about it? Associate Professor Ana Arjona and Dr Marcela Ríos to discuss these issues with Dr Mauricio Cárdenas and Professor Andrés Velasco.

Date: Friday 29 October 2021.

Policy in Practice seminar with Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado

Speaker: Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, the first woman elected Vice-President in Panama
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu

Speaker: Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2009-2014
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Thursday 21 October 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with José Antonio Meade

Speaker: José Antonio Meade, former Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the federal government of Mexico
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Thursday 14 October 2021

The Aristocracy of Talent: how meritocracy made the modern world

Adrian Wooldridge discusses his latest book, in which he traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocractic system.

Date: Thursday 14 October 2021

Ch anging Cultures: How are cultural institutions reframing their relationships with audiences, the community and the city?

Date: Wednesday 13 October 2021

The Indian Economy: recent developments and prospects

In this event, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Shri Shaktikanta Das, and the Chair of the 15th Indian Finance Commission, N.K. Singh, discuss the challenges facing the economy of India and what we can expect from it in the future.

Date: Monday 11 October 2021

Opportunities for Stronger and Sustainable Post-Pandemic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Date: Thursday 7 October 2021

Reciprocity and the Welfare State

The speakers discuss their contributions to the issue of the LSE Public Policy Review. This issue, titled Beveridge 2.0: Reciprocity Across the Life-Cycle focuses on the relationships between individuals and between generations that underpin welfare state institutions.

Date: Tuesday 28 September 2021

My Secret Brexit Diary

Date: Monday 27 September 2021

Reset: reclaiming the internet for civil society

Professor Ron Deibert explores the disturbing impact of the internet and social media on politics, the economy and the environment, and asks us to consider how best to construct a viable communications ecosystem that supports civil society and contributes to the betterment of the human condition.

Hosted by the LSE School of Public Policy and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Date: Wednesday 7 July 2021

Seven Ways to Change the World - How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face

Date: Tuesday 6 July 2021

Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date: Tuesday 29 June 2021

Haldane and LSE: applying political philosophy to public service in today's polarised politics

Richard Haldane pioneered cross-party and cross-sector cooperation. How might Haldane's approach - that of the philosopher-statesman - be applied to politics today?

Date: Thursday 10 June 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Alan Elizondo

Speaker: Alan Elizondo, CEO of FIRA
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Thursday 3 June

Liars: falsehood and free speech in an age of deception

Date: Thursday 27 May 2021

Rescue: from global crisis to a better world

Date: Wednesday 26 May 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Rafat Ali Al-Akhali

Speaker: Rafat Ali Al-Akhali, former Minister of Youth and Sports in the Government of Yemen
Chair: Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Monday 24 May

Doom: the politics of catastrophe

Date: Thursday 20 May 2021

Localising Transport: towards the 15-minute city or the one-hour metropolis?

Urban Age Debates: cities in the 2020s

Date: Thursday 20 May 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Barbara Rambousek

Speaker: Barbara Rambousek, Director of Gender & Economic Inclusion within the Department of Country and Sector Economics at the EBRD

Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Monday 17 May

Lessons Learnt from the Pandemic

Over a year on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, what key lessons have been learnt that should shape the policies that national and global actors should pursue.

Date: Thursday 13 May 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Alan Hirsch

Speaker: Alan Hirsch, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at UCT in South Africa

Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy

Date: Monday 10 May

Humanising the City: can the design of urban space promote cohesion and healthier lifestyles?

Urban Age Debates

This Urban Age Debate brings together prominent city-shapers and commentators who are committed to making cities more liveable, more democratic and more complex. Using images of recent projects in Mexico City, Mumbai, New York, Moscow and London, architects and urbanists explore the deep connections between the design of public space and social inclusion as cities strive to become more humane, domestic, and home to diverse communities.

Date: Tuesday 27 April 2021

Central Bank Digital Currencies: international and domestic challenges

Online Conference

The objective of this conference was to address current cutting edge questions related to the development and deployment of CBDC bringing together scholars, central banks, banks, and fintech companies to facilitate an inter-active and inter-disciplinary dialogue on the relationship between CBDC and new roles for central bank money. The conference aimed to offer the best possible insights about and serve as reference for CBDC.

Date: Thursday 22- Friday 23 April 2021

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Drugs and Development Policies: a discussion with the Global Commission on Drug Policy

Date: Monday 29 March 2021

This high-level discussion will explores the experiences of four former heads of state or government, from four regions in the world, who discuss the medium and long-term solutions to the harms created by current drug control policies.

Beveridge 2.0: Doing Good and Doing Well: Individual and Organisational Motivations for Public Benefit

Date: Monday 22 March 2021

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UK Market Regulation After Brexit: higher, lower or stay the same?

Date: Tuesday 9 March 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Mirian Vilela

Speaker: Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of the Earth Charter International Secretariat.
Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 4 March 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Carlos Raúl Morales

Speaker: Carlos Raúl Morales, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala 2014 - 2017.
Chair: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 25 February 2021

Money and Power: the world leaders who changed economics

Through economics, our politicians have the power to transform people’s lives for better or worse. In this magisterial history, economist and politician Sir Vince Cable examines the legacy of 16 world leaders who transformed their countries’ economic fortunes and who also challenged economic convention. From Thatcher to Trump, from Lenin to Bismarck, Money and Power provides a whole new perspective on the science of government. Examining the fascinating interplay of economics and politics, this is a compelling journey through some of the most significant people and events of the last 300 years.

Date: Tuesday 23 February 2021

How Was Brexit For You? A Reflection On What We Learnt

Date: Wednesday 17 February 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Sir Peter Hendy

Speaker: Sir Peter Hendy, Chair of Network Rail.
Chair: Professor Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 11 February 2021

Outside the EU: options for Britain

Date: Tuesday 9 February 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Vanessa Rubio-Márquez

Speaker: Vanessa Rubio-Márquez, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy.
Chair: Professor Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy.

Date: Thursday 4 February 2021

One Step Ahead: mastering the art and science of negotiation

For over twenty years David Sally has been teaching the art of negotiation at leading business schools and to executives at top companies. Now, in his new book he delivers the proven, clear, actionable insights you need to stay competitive in an ever-changing marketplace. In One Step Ahead, David Sally provides the fundamental wisdom that elevates the sophisticated negotiator above everyone else. Readers will gain the advantage in everything from determining when to negotiate and deciphering a game strategically, to understanding which personality traits matter, why emotions are not necessarily to be avoided, and how to be tough and fair.

Based on cutting-edge studies and real-world results, and drawing parallels to everything from the NBA to the corner con game to Machiavelli, Xi Jinping, and Barack Obama, One Step Ahead upends conventional wisdom to make sure that you have what it takes to stay one step ahead―no matter whom you are facing across the table.

Date: Wednesday 3 February 2021

How to Make COVID-19 Vaccination a Success? Policy Priorities and Implementation from Israel and Around the World

Date: Tuesday 27 January 2021

The Impact of Brexit on Higher Education

Date: Monday 25 January 2021

Humanitarian dimensions of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh

This session discusses the humanitarian consequences of the six-week war in and around Nagorno-Karabakh that erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan in autumn 2020. The brutal fighting in Karabakh – an Armenian-populated enclave within Azerbaijan - ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that sealed Azerbaijan’s victory in the war. The war that was launched at the peak of the global pandemic has left many humanitarian challenges, including the need to ensure basic needs and well-being of returning residents in Karabakh as well as those who are being displaced from Karabakh, the faith of war prisoners, and the livelihoods of border communities affected by a new division of borders between the two countries.

Date: Monday 25 January 2021

Urban Age Debates: cities in the 2020s

Socialising Remote Work: will changing patterns in knowledge work reduce or amplify the human need to meet in cities?

Date: 19 January 2021

Beveridge 2.0: the supportive state

Date: 13 January 2021

Maryam Annual Forum

Call to Action – Public Declaration to G7 and G20 and National Leaders

Finalisation and validation session with Erik Berglof (Chair), LSE and AIIB; Mandeep Bains, LSE; Piroska Nagy-Mohácsi, LSE and LSE Maryam Forum Students.

Changing Policy Making for Good: Discussion with the LSE Maryam Forum Students

Maryam Annual Forum

10 December 2020

A thought provoking discussion between students and policy makers, where students engage with policy practitioners to learn their views on the validity of recommendations against the challenges of implementation in reality.

This session provides an opportunity for the next generation of leaders to learn from the experience of experts and understand the challenges of policymaking in the real world. As experts in their roles, policymakers draw out priorities to manage risks and disruptions and discuss viable strategies that leaders and governments must adopt in the new post-Covid paradigm. Through this dialogue we hear policymakers and students brainstorm to find practical ways of ensuring policies that create long-term value for humanity.

Charting a New Path on Climate Change, Oceans and Financial Risks

Maryam Annual Forum

10 December 2020

Decision makers often shy away from investment in climate resilience because of its lack of political appeal. But such investments, including investing in our planet’s natural resources – or “natural capital” – in particular, are cost effective and can be hugely beneficial for whole sectors of society. They are crucial to reducing the negative impact of climate change, unlocking development potential and protecting our environment. What can policymakers, including central banks and regulators, do to encourage the flow of finance to our cities, our forests and our oceans to reduce the risks from climate change? What can we all do to make sure our COVID economic recovery packages include both the policies and investments for climate change mitigation and adaptation?

Innovation and Inclusive Growth: how to transform global linkages and industrial policy for a new era

Maryam Annual Forum

10 December 2020

The economic and public health challenges and policy responses created by Covid-19 have led to an acceleration of some key pre-existing trends, namely: geo-political fragmentation, the reorganisation of global value chains and the adoption of new technologies. These shifts have profound implications for patterns of economic growth and prosperity. This webinar will discuss how policy makers can best leverage new opportunities (such as artificial intelligence, big data and working-from-home) to pursue sustainability and inclusivity through innovative solutions. The webinar will discuss how public policies can embrace an open and ‘global’ approach to the generation of innovation, growth and employment opportunities, such that internationalisation, foreign direct investment and global value chains can take centre stage in an inclusive recovery after the pandemic.

Conversation of the Implications of the US Elections for the World

Maryam Annual Forum

10 December 2020

Professor Michael Cox and Professor Sergei Guriev discuss the implications of the US elections for the world.

Human Mobility: Towards Enhanced Integrationand Social Cohesion

Maryam Annual Forum

9 December 2020

Migration and forced displacement feature prominently in national, regional, and global politics and policies. Yet, the debate is often infused with a political and populist narrative that is not founded in evidence. Given this backdrop, the webinar on Human Mobility will seek to have a factual discussion on these emotive issues, grounded in recent research. The panel will also discuss a set of potential policy solutions to both improve the integration of migrants and refugees in labour markets and to promote healthy attitudes towards them to bolster social cohesion.

How to Lead Better Responses to Global Emergencies?

Maryam Annual Forum

9 December 2020

COVID-19 has presented a serious, almost existential, challenge to every country around the world, and is the definition of a truly global emergency. While national responses have varied in effectiveness, because of differing leadership and state capacity, the pandemic has also highlighted how the global and national systems we have in place for dealing with global emergencies are either not fit for purpose or have been hamstrung by those upon whose leadership they depend. Global emergencies demand coordinated responses, effective institutions and global public goods like data.

The panel discuss recent research and the key lessons learned from the COVID crisis and propose solutions bringing together global health, epidemiology and economics. How can we integrate experimentation and active real-time learning into policy-making in a crisis? How can we share national data across borders for the benefit of all? How can we support developing countries now to the build economic resilience to deal with a future crisis?

High Level Policy Panel: a new paradigm for the post-COVID world

Maryam Annual Forum

9 December 2020

Rarely, perhaps never, has the world faced such an array of challenges, as distinct as they are interdependent. At the forefront are a health catastrophe and an economic crisis that together are blighting lives and jeopardizing the fight against hunger, poverty, inequality and climate change.

With the vaccine now within reach, policy attention can focus on what should be a transformational recovery. The crisis provides a unique opportunity for nations and the global community to re-evaluate many aspects of modern economy, society, and government. If we return to the “old normal,” this window of opportunity will have been lost.

Against this backdrop, we ask our panelists the following questions. What are the key policy priorities for economic recovery? How should we deal with the legacy of the crisis response: historically high public and corporate debt, worsening inequality, and a cohort of children who have missed a year of education? How do we make faster progress against climate change in this new context? How do we factor into policy the implications – both good and bad – of the step change in digitalisation in all aspects of our lives over just 10 months? How do we reform global processes and institutions? Are we ready for a new social contract, and if so, what should it look like?

Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism, and What Can We Do About It?

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Maryam Annual Forum

8 December 2020

Professor Dani Rodrik explores the globalisation backlash and the ways (hyper-) globalisation has produced a political counter-reaction. He presents an alternative model of globalisation that is more compatible with economic prosperity and social inclusion.

Democracy and Disinformation

Maryam Annual Forum

8 December 2020

Digital technology has fundamentally undermined previous definitions of a democratic information environment. In the 20th century democracies were defined by freedom of expression, pluralism and the metaphor of a ‘marketplace of ideas’, and authoritarian regimes by censorship and state media control. Today, however, we see authoritarians and ‘hybrid’ regimes multiplying content rather than constricting it: flooding the information space with unprecedented amounts of digitally powered disinformation, and undermining critics with cyber militias and online mobs. Meanwhile, inside democracies pluralism is tipping into polarisation so extreme it breaks down the possibility for deliberative debate.

The principles underpinning a democratic information environment need to be reimagined for the digital age. What sort of oversight and control do we need over algorithms and the design of online platforms? How can we reinvent media to overcome polarisation? Can democracies build coalitions to withstand the authoritarian threat?

New Rules for Finance & the Global Financial Architecture?

Maryam Annual Forum

8 December 2020

The emergency response to the COVID crisis has exacerbated many of the issues our economies have been facing since the global financial crisis. Governments are financing themselves through national debt issuance only seen in wartime. Central banks’ unconventional instruments have been massively scaled up and currency swaps of leading central banks have been rolled out.

The urgency - and innovativeness - with which these decisions had to be made has allowed policy to outpace theory. This gap in knowledge urgently needs to be bridged, so that informed decisions can be made on the issues facing central banking decisions.

What Do Leaders Need to Change NOW?

Maryam Annual Forum

8 December 2020

Our world has been transformed and convulsed in the year since COVID-19 disrupted all our lives. Some leaders have been inspirational, so they thrived, but many leaders have struggled and quite a few failed.

LSE Maryam Forum students discuss new ideas on how policies must change, drawing on LSE’s new Co-Labs on key policy challenges. They will debate new ideas on how leadership must adapt to thrive and address the huge challenges looming for 2021

Policy in Practice seminar with Greg Fischer

Speaker: Greg Fischer, Chief Economist at Y Analytics
Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE

Date: Thursday 3 December, 6-7:30pm

The 'True' Brexit: where are we now?

Speakers: Professor Katy Hayward, Professor of Political Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast and a Senior Fellow at ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’; Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Advisor at the Centre for Economics and Business Research and former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service; Jill Rutter, Senior Research Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe; Professor Tony Travers is Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE.

Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor in European Politics and the Director of the Hellenic Observatory.

Date: Thursday 10 December, 5pm- 6:30pm

Lives, Livelihoods and Lockdowns: debating COVID-19 policy trade-offs

Speakers: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge and a Special Envoy on AMR (antimicrobial resistance) for the UK Government; Professor Paul Dolan, Professor of Behavioural Science, LSE; Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, University of Oxford; Professor Carl Heneghan, a clinical epidemiologist and Professor of Evidence-based Medicine, University of Oxford; Professor David Hunter, Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and Director of the Translational Epidemiology Unit at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford.

Chair: Professor Julia Black, Strategic Director of Innovation and Professor of Law, LSE.

Date: Wednesday 2 December, 1pm - 2.15pm

Policy in Practice Seminar:

How we think, who we trust and what we do… What do public policy professionals need to get better at?

Speaker: Nick Rowley, Former Advisor on Sustainability and Climate change to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE

Date: Thursday 19 November, 7:00-8:30pm

After Brexit: the UK in the North Atlantic trade triangle

Speakers: Anthony Gardner, former US Ambassador to the European Union; Beatrice Kilroy-Nolan, former senior EU and trade advisor to the Prime Minister in No.10 Downing Street; Luisa Santos, Deputy Director General at BusinessEurope.

Date: Thursday 12 November 2020, 5pm- 6:30pm

Policy in Practice Seminar

State capacity and what it takes to reform from the grassroots

Speaker: Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive of Centre for Policy Research India
Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE

Date: Thursday 5 November, 16:00-17:30

Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm

Speakers: Julia Kiraly, Associate Professor of Finance and Monetary Economics, International Business School (IBS) Budapest; Piroska Nagy Mohacsi, Interim Director and Programme Director, Institute of Global Affairs at the LSE School of Public Policy; Richard Portes, Professor of Economics; Academic Director, AQR Asset Management Institute at the London Business School.

Chair: Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); Professor, LSE School of Public Policy and Fellow, CEPR.

Date: Wednesday 4th November 2020, 1pm - 2pm

Making Global Finance Work for All – Reforming the Global Development Architecture

Speakers: Jin Liqun, President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); Raghuram Rajan, Professor, Booth School of Business, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India; Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister, Singapore; Ksenia Yudaeva, Deputy Governor, National Bank of Russia

Chair: Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Professor, LSE School of Public Policy and Fellow, CEPR.

Date: Friday 30 October 2020, 2pm-3.30pm

Policy in Practice Seminar:

"What I wished I knew then..."

Speaker: Lant Pritchett, RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, UK

Chair: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy, LSE

Date: Thursday 29 October, 18:00-19:30

Conference:

COVID-19: Impact on the Economy and Central Bank Policies

Speakers: Various. Please see conference programme.

Date: Thursday 29 October, 8am

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Speaker: Fareed Zakaria, CNN journalist, political scientist and author.
Chair: Professor Andrés Velasco, Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy, LSE.

Date: Wednesday 28 October 2020 2pm-3pm

Policy in Practice Seminar:

Transforming Governance in Africa: Insights from a Personal Journey

Speaker: Jennifer Musisi, City Leader In Residence at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

Date: Thursday 15 October, 18:00-19:30

Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development; a critical perspective

Speakers: Isabelle Guérin, Senior Research Fellow, French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development and Associate, French Institute of Pondicherry; François Roubaud, Senior Research Fellow, French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development; Sir Angus Stewart Deaton FBA, Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department, Princeton University; Professor Lant Pritchett, RISE Research Director, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Date: Monday 12 October, 6pm-7.30pm

Brexit and Culture Wars: is this a new 'normal'?

Speakers: Professor John Denham, Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics at the University of Southampton and former Labour cabinet minister; Professor Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and professor in the Department of Government and the European Institute; Chaminda Jayanetti, politics, social policy and public services journalist who has been published in The Guardian, The Independent, and The Observer.

Date: Monday 05 October 2020, 5pm-6.30pm BST

Living with COVID-19: four futures, five contexts

Date: Friday 25 September 2020, 1.30pm-3pm

Greed is Dead: politics after individualism

Speakers: Professor Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Oxford Blavatnik School of Government and a Director of the International Growth Centre, LSE; Professor John Kay, Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

Date: Tuesday 15 September 2020, 6pm - 7pm

Innovation and Inclusive Growth: COVID-19 as a window of opportunity

Date: Friday 11 September 2020, 1pm - 2.30pm

The Tyranny of Merit: what's become of the common good?

Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University, and author.

Date: Wednesday 9 September 2020, 6pm-7pm

Populism in the Post-COVID-19 World

Date: Thursday 23 July 2020 1pm-2.30pm

How to Reform the WTO?

Date: Monday 20 July 2020 1pm-2.30pm

Journalism, Power and Pandemic

Date: Wednesday 15 July 2020, 3pm-4pm

Prospects for the UK Economy and Public Spending After COVID-19: new austerity or a new economy?

Date: Friday 10 July 2020, 11am - 12.30pm

Policies to Fight the Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

Date: Tuesday 7 July 2020 5pm - 6.30pm

Negotiating Our Post-Brexit Future: where are we heading?

Date: Tuesday 30 June 2020, 2pm - 3.30pm

Financing the SDGs – Can the World Avoid Failure?

Speaker: Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group.

Date: Monday 29 June 2020, 1pm - 2pm

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Life After COVID-19: challenges and policy response

Date: Friday 26 June 2020, 12pm - 1.30pm

Do we have the WHO we need? Global Health Governance and Reform

Date: Thursday 25 June 2020, 1.30pm - 3pm

COVID-19 in South Asia: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan

Date: Monday 22 June 2020, 4pm- 5:30pm

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Brexit and the Post-COVID-19 Options for the Economy

Date: Monday 22 June 2020, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Financing the Post-COVID-19 Recovery

Date: Friday 19 June 2020, 3pm-4.30pm

How did we end up here? Governance lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

Crucial Role of State Capacity in Crisis Response

Date: Tuesday 16 June, 5pm-6.30pm

Digital Currencies and Stable Coins as Crisis Management Tools

Date: Thursday 11 June, 2pm - 3.30pm

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Fiscal Policies to Support People and Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date: Monday 8 June, 3pm-4.30pm

Shrinking Capitalism

Date: Thursday 4 June, 1.30pm - 3pm

The Political Economy of COVID-19 – what do we learn from Emerging Europe?

Date: Thursday 28 May 2020, 1.30pm - 3pm

Addressing the Pandemic: the pharmaceutical challenges

Date: Tuesday 26 May 2020, 12pm - 1.30pm

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Responding to a Pandemic: the view from Latin America

Date: Friday 22 May 2020, 4pm - 5.30pm

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Recovering from COVID-19: China and global value chains

Date: Thursday 21 May 2020, 1pm - 2.30pm

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COVID-19: the economic policy response

Date: Monday 18 May 2020, 4pm - 5.30pm

Living with lockdowns: Early lessons from India's Covid-19 response

Date: Thursday 14 May 2020, 1.30pm - 3pm

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The Great Reversal in the Time of COVID-19

Date: Wednesday 13 May 2020, 18:00 - 19:30

Strategic Leadership in the Time of COVID-19

Date: Monday 11 May 2020, 4.30pm - 6pm.

Born Out of Necessity: a debt standstill for COVID-19

Date: Thursday 7 May, 1.30pm - 2.30pm.

Coronavirus and Brexit: two cases of quarantine?

Date: Thursday 30 April 2020, 2pm - 3.30pm.

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2020, 1pm - 2.30pm.

Fragile States Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date: Monday 27 April 2020, 1pm - 2.30pm.

COVID-19 and the social contract on North Africa and the Middle East

Date: Thursday 23 April, 3.30pm - 5pm.

The Swedish Exception: early lessons from Sweden's different approach to COVID-19

Now or Never: crafting the COVID-19 response

What is the Coronavirus telling us about the state in Europe?

Date: Thursday 2 April 2020, 6pm - 7.15pm.

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The State of European Banking Union: two proposals to resurrect it

Speaker: Professor Luis Garicano, Member of the European Parliament and leader of Ciudadanos in Europe.

Date: Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE.

Windows of Opportunity: how nations create wealth

Speaker: Lord Sainsbury, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and former Minister of Science and Innovation.

Date: Monday 24 February 2020, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE.

Brexit and the future of British Politics

Speakers: Professor Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor in the Department of Government and the European Institute, LSE; Professor Tony Travers is Associate Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy, LSE, and Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Buckingham.

Date: Monday 17 February 2020, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE.

China - a Tale of Two Decades: what the shifts of the past decade mean for the next

Speaker: Joe Horn-Phathanothai, Founder and CEO of Strategy613.

Date: Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:30-20:00
Venue: NAB 2.04, New Academic Building, LSE.

The Future of Anglo-German relations: beyond Brexit

Speakers: Rt Hon Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Conservative peer in the House of Lords and former Minister for Security and Counter Terrorism; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former British MP, and previous UK Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary; and Dr Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the German Bundestag.

Date: Monday 3 February 2020, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE.

Brexit - third time lucky?

Speakers: Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union and Labour Law at Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Vicky Pryce, former Joint Head of the UK Government Economics Service; and Sir Ivan Rogers, former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union.

Date: Friday 31 January 2020, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE.

The Implications of Brexit for the UK Economy

Speakers: Dr Gerard Lyons, Chief Economic Strategist at challenger wealth manager Netwealth and Board Member of Bank of China (UK); Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Advisor, CEBR and Professor John Van Reenen, former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service and Ronald Coase Chair in Economics, Department of Economics, LSE.

Date: Monday 27 January 2020, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE.

Europe 2020: the European year in review

Speakers: Dr Swati Dhingra, Associate Professor in Economics, LSE; Dr Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, European Institute, LSE; Dr Sara Hagemann, Academic Director for the LSE School of Public Policy, and Professor Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions, Department of Government, LSE.

Date: Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE.

Regional Economic Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean: Stunted by Uncertainty

Speakers: Alejandro Werner, Director of the Western Hemisphere Department, IMF; Dr Veronica Rappoport, Associate Professor of Management, LSE and Second Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina; Jorge Roldos, Assistant Director in the Western Hemisphere Department, Regional Studies Division, IMF.

Date: Monday 02 December 2019, 18:30-20:00
Venue: CLM 4.02, Clement House, LSE.

The UK and Germany in a Changing Europe

Speaker: H.E. Dr Peter Wittig, German Ambassador to the UK.

Date: Tuesday 12 November, 19:00-20:15
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE.

Women vs Capitalism: why we can't have it all in a free market economy

Speaker: Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser, Centre for Economics and Business Research.

Date: 11 November 2019, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE.

Brexit meets its Halloween? Assessing the Immediate Future for the UK and the EU

Speakers: Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union and Labour Law at Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Vicky Pryce, former Joint Head of the UK Government Economics Service; Sir Ivan Rogers, former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union, and Professor Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy and Professor in Practice, Department of Government, LSE.

Date: Thursday 31 October, 18:30-20:00.
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE.

Protecting All: Risk Sharing for a Diverse and Diversifying World of Work

Speakers: Professor Nicholas Barr, Professor in Public Economics, European Institute, LSE; Dr Francesca Bastagli, Principal Research Fellow, Head of Programme - Social Protection and Social Policy, Overseas Development Institute; Truman G. Packard, Lead Economist at the World Bank Group; Michal Rutkowski, Global Director for Social Protection and Jobs, World Bank Group.

Date: Wednesday 30 October, 10:30-12:00
Venue: Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building, LSE

SPP Women's Network Annual Launch

Gender Denial: The Greatest Barrier Women Face at Work

Speakers: Michelle King, Head of the Global Innovation Coalition for Change, UN Women; Belinda Riley, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, EMEIA TAS Talent, EY; Sevi Simavi, Associate Director and Advisor to the Vice President, EBRD; Tamara Gillan, Founder and CEO, Cherry London, and Founder, Wealthiher Network.

Date: Thursday 10 October 2019, 19:00- 20:30.
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE.

The New Approaches of the Belt and Road Initiatives

Speaker: Professor Huang Renwei, Executive Director-General, Fudan Institute of Belt and Road and Global Governance.

Date: 2 October 2019, 18:30-20:00

In conversation with Sergio Fajardo Valderrama

Speakers: Sergio Fajardo Valderrama, Colombian politician and mathematician; Professor Andrés Velasco, the Dean of the School of Public Policy.

Date: Tuesday 14 May, 18:30-20:00

Brexit: the Constitution and the future of the UK

Speaker: Vernon Bogdanor, Research Professor in the Centre for British Politics and Government, King’s College London.

Date:Tuesday 19 February, 18:30-20:00

Policy-Making in an Age of Populism - Launch of the School of Public Policy

Speakers: Professor Jason Furman, Professor at the John Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; Professor Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor in the Department of Government and the European Institute; Yascha Mounk, Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at New America; Professor Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy.

Thursday 29 November, 18:30-20:00

Future Politics: living together in a world transformed by tech

Speaker: Jamie Susskind, author, speaker, and practising barrister.

Tuesday 6 November, 18:30-20:00

Sir Nick Clegg: flying the flag for openness: why liberalism still matters

Speaker: Sir Nick Clegg, served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015.

Tuesday 12 June, 18:00-19:30

Robert Peston: WTF: what the f--- happened and what happens next?

Speaker: Robert Peston, ITV's political editor, presenter of the politics show Peston on Sunday and founder of the education charity, Speakers for Schools.

Monday 6 November, 18:30-20:00

Post-Truth: why we have reached peak bullshit and what we can do about it

Speaker: Evan Davis, presenter on Newsnight (BBC 2), The Bottom Line (Radio 4) and Dragons’ Den (BBC 2).

Wednesday 18 October, 18:30-20:00

Good Growth by Design – A Vision for London

Speaker: Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London.

Discussants: Professor Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at LSE and Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme; Sadie Morgan, founding director of leading architectural practice dRMM; Jackie Sadek, founder and Chief Executive of UK Regeneration (UKR).

Monday 10 July, 18:30-20:00