Institute of Global Affairs events explore how to tackle global challenges with guests from academia and public policy.
Please join us at the following public events:
Registration and ticket requirements vary for each event.
The Global Refugee Crisis: a challenge to our common humanity
Event Chair LSE Director Craig Calhoun and Valerie Amos.
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.
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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.
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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 (pictured, 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 (centre) were (right-left) 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. Download / Listen:
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.
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