LSE Growth Commission
Evidence Sessions
The LSE Growth Commission provides authoritative and evidence-based policy recommendations that aim to foster sustainable and inclusive long-term growth in the UK.
Below you will find information about the evidence sessions that took place in 2012 and in 2016.
LSE Growth Commission 2016
The UK now faces fresh questions about its economic future including its relationship with the EU, the future of the City of London, the role of industrial policy, and new developments in labour markets.
In January 2017 the Commission will publish a second Report of its Growth Manifesto, providing recommendations in these four areas. Once again the Commission will draw on evidence given in public session by leading players, policymakers and stakeholders in the UK economy, a strong team of researchers at LSE's Centre for Economic Performance and the latest data available informing their inquiries.
Panel discussion: What Next for Growth in the UK?
Speakers: Stephanie Flanders, Vince Cable, Alistair Darling, and George Osborne MP
2 November 2016 - 6:30pm
Evidence session: Labour Markets and Inclusive Growth
Speakers: David Autor (MIT), Richard Blundell (UCL & IFS), Gavin Kelly (Resolution Foundation) and Rain Newton Smith (CBI)
17 November 2016 - 12:00-1:50pm
Evidence session: Openness, Trade and FDI
Speakers: Karolina Ekholm (State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Sweden); Karen Helene Ullveit-Moe (University of Oslo and Bank of Norway); Lionel Fontagne’ (CEPII), Paola Conconi (ECARES); Will Page (Director of Economics, Spotify); Tim Sarson (KPMG)
21 November 2016 - 12:00-2:00pm
Evidence session: Industrial Policy and Growth
Speakers: Mariana Mazzucato (Professor of Economics of Innovation at SPRU, Sussex University); Kate Collyer (Deputy Chief Economic Adviser at Competition and Markets Authority); Gary Elliottt (CEO Aerospace Technology Institute); Mark Littlewood (Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs); Alan Overd (Vice President at Charles River Associates)
22 November 2016 - 2:30-4:30pm
Evidence session: Finance and the City of London
Speakers: David Miles (Imperial); Huw Evans (ABI); Charlie Bean (LSE); Jenny Tooth (UKBAA); Adam Jackson & David Morrey (Grant Thornton); Angus Canvin (Investment Association); Lindsey Naylor (Oliver Wyman); Peter Smith (Blockchain)
6 December 2016 - 11:00am-1:00pm
LSE Growth Commission 2012-2013
A key feature of the commission's operation was a series of evidence sessions, each focusing on an individual topic, whose proceedings are publicly available as a permanent record of the commission. The major end product was the publication of the LSE Growth Commission Report in 2013 which articulates the views of the commission on how to improve the growth performance of the UK economy in a sustainable way: how the recommendations can be embedded in the institutional landscape, including how government structures may need to change.
2012 LSE Growth Commission launch
23 January 2012
Speakers: Eric Haunushek (Stanford University), Stephen Machin (UCL and CEP), Ludger Wobmann (University of Munich)
14 March 2012
Evidence session: Measurement / Concept of Growth
Speakers: Sir Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College and LSE), Paul Schreyer (OECD), Jean-Paul Fitoussi (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and LUISS,)
02 May 2012
Evidence session: Infrastructure, Energy and Growth
Speakers: Stephen Fries (Department of Energy ad Climate Change), David Newbery (University of Cambridge), Bridget Rosewell (Volterra Parners)
23 May 2012
Speakers: Ian Davis, John Van Reenen (LSE and CEP, and Growth Commission), Hal Varian (Google)
28 May 2012
Evidence session: Science, Engineering and Innovation
Speakers: Ayamn Asfari (Petrofac), Keith O'Nions (Imperial), Jon Moulton (Better Capital)
30 May 2012
Investing in Prosperity - Launch of the LSE Growth Commission Report 2013
Speakers: Professor Tim Besley (LSE and Growth Commission Co-Chair), Professor Francesco Caselli (LSE and Centre for Macroeconomics), Sir Richard Lambert (Chancellor, University of Warwick and former Chair, CBI), MS Rachel Lomax (formerly Deputy Governor, Bank o fEngland), Lord Nicholas Stern (Chair, Grantham Research Institute and LSE), Professor John Van Reenen (Director, CEP, and Growth Commission Co-Chair)
31 January 2013