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All past Public Events

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Paul Dolan (LSE), Gillian Tett (University of Cambridge)

This event is both online and in person

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ




Richard Layard (CEP, LSE), Gus O'Donnell (former Cabinet Secretary), Amanda Rowlatt (former chief economist at the Department for Transport, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Department for Work and Pensions)

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus



Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Alan Manning (CEP, LSE), Sarah O'Connor (Financial Times), Kate Bell (Trades Union Congress)

This event is both online and in person

Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ


Tera Allas (McKinsey & Company), Daniela Scur (Cornell University)

This event is both online and in person

CBG, Centre Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE




Amy Ellis-Thompson (Education Endowment Foundation), Lucy Heller (ARK Schools), David Cervera (Madrid Regional Ministry of Education), Luz Rello (IE University and Change Dyslexia)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH






Various speakers

This event is both online and in person

CKK LG.03, Thai Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ





Various speakers

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH



Nicholas Stern (Grantham Research Institute and LSE), Rachel Kyte (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)

This event is both online and in person

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ


Cameron Hepburn (University of Oxford and the Institute for New Economic Thinking), Nicholas Stern (Grantham Research Institute and LSE)

This event is both online and in person

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ


Emily Shuckburgh (Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge and UKRI), Nicholas Stern (Grantham Research Institute and LSE)

This event is both online and in person

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ


Camille Landais (LSE), Almudena Sevilla (CEP and LSE), Anneliese Dodds (Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities in the UK), Felicia Odamtten (Resolution Foundation and The Black Economists Network)

CEP, London School of Economics




Richard Layard (CEP, LSE), Kate Barker (Universities Superannuation Scheme), Stephen Aldridge (Department for Levelling Up Housing & Communities), Simon Wolfson (Next plc), Paul Cheshire (Department of Geography and Environment and CEP, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE



John Van Reenen (LSE), Anna Valero (CEP), Bart van Ark (The Productivity Institute and University of Manchester), Xuyi Yang (University of Cambridge and POID, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

MAR 1.08, 1st floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY


Sandra McNally (CEP), David Willetts, Richard Layard (CEP, LSE), Guglielmo Ventura (CVER and CEP, LSE), Diana Beech (London Higher)

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus




Henry Overman (What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth and CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Bev Craig (Manchester City Council), Will Garton (Director General for Levelling Up), Jennifer Williams (Financial Times)

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus



Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Hannah Slaughter (Resolution Foundation), Melanie Simms (University of Glasgow)

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus



Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Kate Barker (Universities Superannuation Scheme), Andrew Harrison (NatWest), Simon Nixon (Journalist), Krishan Shah (Resolution Foundation), Anna Valero (CEP)

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus


Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Lee Elliot Major (Sutton Trust), Sam Friedman (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ


Liam Beiser-McGrath (Department of Social Policy, LSE), Chris Skidmore (Member of Parliament for Kingswood), Elizabeth Robinson (Grantham Research Institute, LSE), Anna Valero (CEP), Rain Newton-Smith (Confederation of British Industry)

This event is both online and in person

MAR 2.04, 2nd floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY









Alan Manning (CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Sarah O'Connor (Financial Times), Nye Cominetti (Resolution Foundation)

ONLINE



Mariana Mazzucato (University College London)

This event is both online and in person

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ


Mariana Mazzucato (University College London)

This event is both online and in person

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ




Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (University of Oxford and CEP), Richard Layard (CEP, LSE)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE





Alison Wolf (King's College London)

This event is both online and in person

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF




Various speakers

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH



Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Hannah Slaughter (Resolution Foundation), Antonia Bance (Trades Union Congress)

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus


Andy Haldane (Royal Society for Arts), Henry Overman (What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth and CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Deborah Cadman (Birmingham City Council)

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus


Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Carolyn Fairbairn (Confederation of British Industry)

This event is both online and in person

MAR, Ground Floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY


Various speakers

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH








Various speakers

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH


























Various speakers

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH






Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Lee Elliot Major (Sutton Trust), Sanchia Berg (BBC)

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ


Richard Davies (LSE and CEP)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE




Various speakers

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH


Peter Schott (Yale School of Management), Swati Dhingra (CEP, LSE), John Van Reenen (LSE), Dorothee Rouzet (OECD), Andres Velasco (LSE School of Public Policy)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE












Mike Coupe (Sainsbury's)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Lee Elliot Major (Sutton Trust), joint with Stephen Machin

Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HT


SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH


SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH


CKK LG.09, Alumni Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ



Richard Layard (CEP, LSE)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH



Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Christopher Nielson (Princeton University)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH



SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

















SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH


SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH


SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH



Angel Gurria (OECD)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH


SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH



























SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH











Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD










Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD














John Van Reenen (LSE), joint with Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College Business School) and Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE & UCL)

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF
















Peter Boone (Effective Innovation)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL



John Kay (Financial Times)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL


Vince Cable (politician)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL



Howard Davies (LSE)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL


Charles Goodhart (LSE)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL


Sushil Wadhwani (Wadhwani Asset Management)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL


Paul Woolley (Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL


Andy Haldane (Royal Society for Arts)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL


Adair Turner (Chairman, Financial Services Authority)

IET: London - Savoy Place, 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL







Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD


Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD







Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD


Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD





Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD


Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; Harvard University and LSE)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; Harvard University and LSE)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; Harvard University and LSE)

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ




Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD


Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School), joint with Amelia Fletcher (Office of Fair Trading), Lucy Neville-Rolfe (Tesco PLC), Graeme Willis (Campaign to Protect Rural England)

LSE BOX, 5th Floor, Tower 3, LSE, 3 Clement's Inn, Mobil Court, WC2A 2AZ




Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HT











Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota)

FMG Conference Room, LRB 407, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD



Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HT


Kay-Yut Chen (Hewlett Packard Labs)

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF


Alan Krueger (Princeton University)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE



Russell Cooper (University of Texas, Austin), joint with John Haltiwanger & Jonathan Willis

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD


Richard Layard (CEP, LSE)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Stephen Dorgan (Associate Principal, McKinsey and Company), joint with Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser and Director General Economics, DTI ; Chair: John Van Reenen

Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HT


Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Alan Krueger (Princeton University), joint with Daniel Kahneman

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD


Richard Layard (CEP, LSE)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD


Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)

Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HT



Lawrence Meyer (Center for Strategic & International Studies )

New Theatre, EAS 171, 1st Floor, East Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Stanley Fischer (formerly International Monetary Fund)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


Olivier Blanchard (International Monetary Fund)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


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