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Confronting the climate and development challenge

Hosted by STICERD

In-person and online public event (Auditorium, Centre Building)

Speakers

Professor Sir Tim Besley

Professor Sir Tim Besley

Professor Robin Burgess

Professor Robin Burgess

Therese Turner-Jones

Chair

Professor Elizabeth Robinson

Professor Elizabeth Robinson

January 23th 2025 would have been Sir Arthur Lewis 110th birthday. To acknowledge this occasion we host a public event with a theme of climate and development.

Meet our speakers and chair

Tim Besley is School Professor of Economics and Political Science and W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE. He is also a member of the National Infrastructure Commission. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and British Academy and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research interests are in political economy and development.

Robin Burgess is Professor of Economics, Co-Founder and Director of the International Growth Centre and Director of the Economics of Environment and Energy Research Programme, all at LSE. 

Therese Turner-Jones is Acting Vice President, Operations at the Caribbean Development Bank. She is a Bahamian national and resident of Bridgetown, Barbados, having recently spent a decade in Kingston Jamaica. Between 2013 and 2022, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she served as general manager of the Caribbean Group (CCB). Her purview spanned IDB operations in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and her home country, The Bahamas. She is currently the Director of the Projects Department of the Caribbean Development Bank after managing MaxGwen Ltd, a consulting firm she founded in 2022. A trained economist, Mrs Turner-Jones has over 30 years’ experience in macroeconomics and economic development, with special expertise on the Caribbean and Latin America. She served the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in senior posts for over 20 years both at a staff and board level.

Elizabeth Robinson (@EJZRobinson66) is Director of the Grantham Research Institute at LSE.

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