In this lecture, Professor Hutter will take disasters as a context for examining questions about risk regulation. The presentation introduces the notion of a regulatory crisis and considers how risk events can also become ‘critical moments’ of disruption to regulatory authorities. These are moments that can test, redefine and re-form regulatory regimes. Professor Hutter's presentation will draw on different examples to examine the very different circumstances that can lead a regulatory crisis. It will consider the role of blaming and negotiation in the development and resolution of crises and the possibilities of learning from them.
| Speaker: |
Bridget M. Hutter, Professor of Risk Regulation, Department of Sociology; Senior Research Associate CARR, LSE |
| Chair: |
Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director; Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics, LSE |
| Discussant: |
Aristos Doxiadis, Economist and Venture Capital Professional |
| Welcome Address |
Eleni Doundoulaki, LSE Hellenic Alumni Association President |
| Date: |
Thursday 2 April 2020 |
| Time: |
18.45-20.30 |
| Venue: |
Megaron Karatza, Aiolou 82, 105 51 Athens, Greece |
Bridget M. Hutter is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation of which is she is a former Director.
Bridget is author of numerous publications and has an international reputation for her work on regulation and risk governance including the regulation of economic life; risk anticipation, resilience and natural disasters; risk-based regulation; and the regulation of food, the environment, airline safety and occupational health and safety. Recent book publications include Regulatory Crisis: Negotiating the Consequences of Risk, Disasters and Crises (with Sally Lloyd-Bostock, 2017, Cambridge University Press) and Risk, Resilience, Inequality and Environmental Law (Editor, 2017, Edward Elgar).
Her current research is engaging with issues of risk, resilience, inequality and environmental regulation. She is regularly involved in policy making discussions, with international bodies, business organizations and regulatory agencies.
She is a member of the UK Environment Agency's Long-Term Investment Scenarios Development Group, a Fellow of the Food Standards Agency Australia and New Zealand, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Social Science, Chinese University Hong Kong.
Aristos Doxiadis is Partner in Big Pi Ventures, a venture capital fund for Greece that focuses on science-based and deep-technology ventures. Since 2012 he has also been Partner in JEREMIE Openfund II, an early-stage VC fund. He is a pioneer of private equity in Greece, with over 20 years of investment and management experience in many industries.
Aristos has been researching and writing on Greek economic development and institutions. His book The Invisible Rift: Institutions and Behaviors in the Greek Economy (in Greek; 2013) has been widely discussed. He is vice-chair of ESETEK, the advisory council on research and innovation to the Government of Greece. He is also on the Board of IOBE, of Solidarity Now and of diaNEOsis.
His earlier experience includes working on anti-poverty programs for the European Commission, planning industrial policy for the Greek government, and managing consulting and auditing companies. He has a B.A. degree in social studies from Harvard University, and an M.Sc. degree in economics from Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Kevin Featherstone is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor in European Politics. He is the Director of the Hellenic Observatory and Co-Chair of LSEE: Research on South-East Europe within the European Institute. He has held visiting positions at the University of Minnesota; New York University; and Harvard University. Before LSE, he held academic posts at the universities of Stirling and Bradford. In 2009-10 he served on an advisory committee to Prime Minister George Papandreou for the reform of the Greek government. He was the first foreign member of the National Council for Research and Technology (ESET) in Greece, serving from 2010-2013. He is Vice-Chair of the Academic Council of 'Atomium Culture', Brussels, a not-for-profit promoting collaboration within the European Research Area. In 2013 he was made ‘Commander: Order of the Phoenix’ by the President of the Hellenic Republic. In 2014, the European Parliament selected one of his books (co-authored with Kenneth Dyson) as one of its ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember’. He has contributed regularly to ‘Kathimerini’.