Past Events 2016

Roger Nord, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund’s African Department, will deliver a lecture on November 8, 18:30 pm at LSE on Africa’s growth challenges. Starting in the mid-1990s, an increasing number of countries in Africa have been experiencing robust and sustained economic growth. But with the collapse of commodity prices, these gains have been called into question. Is this a rough patch or the end of Africa Rising? What role are new partners such as China and India playing? How to reap the full benefits of natural resource wealth? How to address large infrastructure gaps? And looking further ahead: how to ensure that the demographic dividend is a blessing not a curse? For details on the programme click here.

Rich People Poor Countries: the rise of emerging market tycoons and their mega-firms

25 October 2016, 18.30, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

In her book, Rich People Poor Countries: The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms, Caroline Freund, former Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank, has identified and analyzed nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires whose net worth adds up to more than $2 trillion. Freund finds that these titans of industry are propelling poor countries out of their small scale production and agricultural past and into a future of multinational industry and service-based mega firms. More information here.

Displacement, Development, and Climate Change: International Organizations Moving Beyond their Mandates

Monday 24^th October 2016, 18.30, TW1 G.01

Climate change is increasing the frequency of natural disasters and undermining development efforts. How are international development and humanitarian organizations adapting to climate change? In this talk, Nina Hall will look at the responses of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Organization for Migration. She will identify changes in their organizational rhetoric, policy, structure, operations and overall mandate to address climate change. Hall will argue that international bureaucrats can play an important role in mandate expansion, influencing whether and how to expand and lobbying states to endorse this expansion. More information here. 

In Search of Truth in the Long Shadows of National Socialism

Thursday 13^th October 2016, 18.30, CLM 3.02

During a 6-year intensive investigation Brazilian-born Julie Catterson Lindahl discovered her family’s role in National Socialism and the SS. Her journey of discovery has taken her to Germany, Poland and Latin America, the place of her birth. The focus of her work has been to understand the process of radicalization, and the reverberations of war and violence on the generations that followed. In this lecture Lindahl focuses on the truth about the past she uncovered, what led her to uncover it and what the relevance of this story is for the times we live in. The podcast of this event is available here.  

Rethinking Global Finance Initiative:
Strengthening the Research and Policy Voice of Emerging Markets

Thursday 30 June 2016,13:30-15:30, St Petersburg 

This was the third event of the Rethinking the Global Finance Initiative, after previous ones in Mumbai and Shanghai. The Initiative’s launch in Russia wwasopened by the Governor of the Bank of Russia Mme Elvira Nabiullina, in the presence of high level representatives of other emerging market central banks and renowned academics.

What future for work?

Monday 20 June 2016, 18.30, NAB 2.04

Speaker: Stefano Scarpetta,   OECD Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs.

Migration – the Ins and Outs

Monday 20 June 2016, LSE Campus.

Speakers: Peter Sutherland, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for International Migration, and LSE researchers Ruben Andersson and Dominik Hangartner.

UN - to be fit for purpose

Thursday 2 June 2016, 2pm,  Shaw Library, Old Building

Speaker: Dr Igor Lukšić. Chair: Professor Erik Berglof

Podcast

Rethinking the Global Monetary System

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 10am, Old Theatre, Old Building

Speaker: Dr  Raghuram Rajan. Chair: Professor Erik Berglof

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Global Migration Initiative 2016 Simulation: From migration crisis to migration governance

LSE Institute of Global Affairs, 6th and 7th May 2016.

Rethinking Global Finance - The Perspective of Emerging Economies

May 5-6, 2016, London School of Economics

Managing Migration - Solutions beyond the Nation State

Siracusa, 18th and 19th April 2016.

The Global Refugee Crisis: a challenge to our common humanity

Our world continues to be challenged by conflict and consequent flows of people across the world. How can and should we respond? Director of SOAS and former Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN Valerie Amos gave this IGA lecture on Thursday 11 February. 

Podcast

Migration: Challenge of Our Generation

In this lecture on 3 December 2015, IGA Professor in Practice Peter Sutherland spoke about how we respond to the current refugee and migration challenge will shape how we are viewed when the history of our time is written and how we manage to integrate the migrants will determine our economic future.  

Climate Change and Migration to Europe

At this joint event with the LSE European Institute, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Embassy of France in the United Kingdom, and the European Commission Representation in the UK on the 18 November 2015, Mary Robinson, UN Special Envoy for Climate Change and former President of Ireland, Alain Le Roy, Secretary General of the European External Action Service and Prof Neil Adger of the University of Exeter discussed how climate change, through its impact on economic, social and political factors which drive migration, is creating new challenges for fragile populations.

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PostCapitalism: Paul Mason Lecture

We know that our world is in the process of seismic change - but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal society? In this lecture on 18 November 2015, Paul Mason (Economics Editor, Channel 4 News) spoke about his new book PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future.

Podcast

Russia’s Political and Economic Future with Vladimir Milov

A private discussion session that took place on November 17 on Russia’s political and economic future with Vladimir Milov, Russian opposition politician, publicist, economist & energy expert. 

Former Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia (2002), Vladimir Milov is now the Chairman of the 'Democratic Choice' opposition party who has written for Forbes Russia, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist.

For The Times They Are A-Changin’: A Lecture by Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy

At this joint event with LSE Students' Union Italian Society on 11th November 2015, Ignazio Visco spoke about the ‘intangibles’ of economics and the increasingly important interactions between long-term trends and short-term developments. Watch the lecture on YouTube / Read the lecture.

 

Migration - the ultimate challenge for Europe and the world: Peter Sutherland Lecture

United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration Peter Sutherland spoke at the launch of the IGA Global Migration Initiative on October 22nd 2015. 

Mr Sutherland, former Director General of the WTO and European Commissioner, called for action at the European level and in the United Nations arguing the current situation was an "international disgrace for the developed world".

A Better Life - The Refugee and Migrant Crisis: Solutions between Sovereignty and Integration

This joint event with LSE Students' Union Italian Society on 5th October 2015 was a charity event to raise awareness on the migrant and refugee crisis and listen to the experiences of experts who have been on the field.

Ateendees heard from Sohrab Ahmari (Wall Street Journal), Rear Admiral Aliperta (Italian Representative to International Maritime Organisation), Pamela DeLargy, (Senior Advisor to the UN Special Representative for International Migration), Sanj Srikanthan (International Rescue Committee UK) and chair Barbara Serra (Al-Jazeera). 

Maccoby on Global Leadership 

This joint IGA - LSE Department of Management event on July 2nd 2015 was a panel discussion on what it takes to lead nations and global organisations today and if leadership can be taught.

Joining worldwide authority on leadership Michael Maccoby were Marc Stears (Professor of Political Theory, University College Oxford), Mari Sako (Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School) and chair Stefan Stern (Financial Times).

Striving for a Progressive Israel

Israel's Leader of the Opposition Issac Herzog visited LSE for an IGA lecture on June 19th 2015. 

Podcast

Healing Ukraine – Coping with the Wounds of Conflict

This inaugural discussion on March 9th 2015 focused on economic and political aspects of the conflict with a special emphasis on the inherent tensions between eastern Ukraine and the rest of the country.