To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation between Otegha Uwagba and LSE Director Minouche Shafik.
Meet our speaker and chair
Otegha Uwagba (@OteghaUwagba) is bestselling author and culture journalist who has written three books: the Sunday Times bestseller Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women in 2017, the short essay Whites: On Race And Other Falsehoods, published in 2020 and selected as a Guardian Book of the Year, and the Sunday Times bestseller We Need To Talk About Money, a part memoir, part cultural commentary published in July 2021. She has also contributed to publications including the Guardian, Vogue, The Gentlewoman, The Cut, Dazed, i-D, the Sunday Times, and the New Statesman. In 2018 she was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and in 2021 the Sunday Times highlighted her as one of seven young writers “changing the literary world”. She graduated from Oxford with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and grew up in south London, where she still resides.
Minouche Shafik is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this, she was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. She is an alumna of LSE. Her new book, What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract, is out now.
More about this event
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