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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Conference:
COVID-19: Impact on the Economy and Central Bank Policies
Speakers: Various. Please see conference programme.
Date: Thursday 29 October, 8am
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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, 1.30pm-3pm
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Greed is Dead: politics after individualism
Date: Tuesday 15 September 2020, 6pm - 7pm
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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, 1pm - 2.30pm
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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
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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 1pm-2.30pm
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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).
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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, 3pm-4pm
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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, 11am - 12.30pm
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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.
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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, 2pm - 3.30pm
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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
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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, 1.30pm - 3pm
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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, 4pm- 5:30pm
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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, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
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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, 3pm-4.30pm
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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, 1.30-3pm
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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, 5pm-6.30pm
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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, 2pm - 3.30pm
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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, 3pm-4.30pm
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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, 1.30pm - 3pm
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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, 1.30pm - 3pm
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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, 12pm - 1.30pm
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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, 4pm - 5.30pm
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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, 1pm - 2.30pm
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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, 4pm - 5.30pm
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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, 1.30pm - 3pm
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The Great Reversal in the Time of COVID-19
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, 18:00 - 19:30
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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, 4.30pm - 6pm.
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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, 1.30pm - 2.30pm.
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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, 2pm - 3.30pm.
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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, 1pm - 2.30pm.
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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, 1pm - 2.30pm.
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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 April, 3.30pm - 5pm.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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