Programme & Speakers

10-11am: Registration and welcome coffee

11am-3pm: LSE and Europe conference and lunch
Welcome from Professor Julia Black, LSE Interim Director and Pro Director for Research, followed by a short speech from Professor Cornelia Woll, Vice President for Studies and Academic Affairs, Sciences Po.

• Research project 1: Explaining the Brexit Vote
  Speakers: Professor Sara Hobolt (@sarahobolt), Sutherland Chair in European Institutions, European Institute and Christopher Wratil, PhD candidate at LSE

• Research project 2: Brexit and EU Financial Governance: Passporting, Equivalence, and Beyond
  Speaker: Professor Niamh Moloney, Professor of Law, LSE

• Research project 3: Climate Change Policy in Europe and the UK
  Speakers: Professor Samuel Fankhauser, Co-Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Dr Maria Carvalho, Policy Analyst, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & Environment (GRI), LSE

• Research project 4: Global Investment Flows and Territorial Inequality: Reassessing Development Policies for Regions and Cities
  Speakers: Professor Simona Iammarino, Professor of Economic Geography;  Head of Geography and Environment Department and Dr Andrea Ascani, LSE Fellow in Economic Geography
  
  
• LSE Consulting presentation: Study on the Law Applicable to Companies, prepared for DG Justice
  Speaker: Edmund-Philipp Schuster, Assistant Professor of Law, LSE
  
  

5:30-7:30pm: What now? The Impact of Brexit panel session
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Head of the European Institute, LSE

• Professor Julia Black, Interim Director and Pro Director for Research, LSE

• Professor Iain Begg (@IainBeggLSE), Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, LSE

• Professor Paul De Grauwe (@pdegrauwe), John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy at the European Institute, LSE

• Professor Tony Travers, Director of LSE London and Visiting Professor in the Government Department, LSE

• Dr Jennifer Jackson Preece (@jackson_preece), Associate Professor of Nationalism, LSE

7:30-9:30pm: European Institute 25th anniversary networking drinks reception