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COVID-19: The Policy Response

LSE's public event series

COVID-19 represents an enormous challenge for the social sciences to help governments and non-governmental organisations respond to the economic and societal consequences of the pandemic. Part of LSE's response to this challenge has been a series of online public events which ran from April to July. Recordings of all past events are available below.

Highlights

Responding to a Pandemic: the view from Latin America

Latin America event

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Laura Chinchilla, Ricardo Lagos, Juan Manuel Santos, Dr Ernesto Zedillo, Professor Andres Velasco and Minouche Shafik.

Global Leadership to Support Africa's Response to COVID-19

IGC event

Professor Paul Collier, Minouche Shafik, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Dr Jonathan Leape

Journalism, Power and the Pandemic

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 Anushka Asthana, Pippa Crerar, Annette Dittert, Richard Horton, Sir Craig Oliver

COVID-19: the impact on the UK's ethnic minority populations

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Professor Kehinde Andrews, Dr Miqdad Asaria, Professor Lucinda Platt, Ross Warwick

Videos 

All videos of the series can be found in one YouTube playlist at COVID-19: The Policy Response

All Podcasts

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Global Leadership to Support Africa's Response to COVID-19

podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Paul Collier, Minouche Shafik, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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Coronavirus and Brexit: two cases of quarantine?

podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Sir Simon Fraser, Dr Sara Hagemann, Professor Christian Lequesne, Professor Brigid Laffan

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COVID-19 and Deglobalisation

podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Peter Watkins, Professor Linda Yueh

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Assessing the Economic Impact of COVID-19

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Paul De Grauwe, Dr Simeon Djankov, Professor Panos Tsakloglou, Dr Miranda Xafa

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Strategic Leadership in the Time of COVID-19

podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: David H. Petraeus, Professor Michael Barzelay, Dr Shirley Yu

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Behavioural Science in the Context of Great Uncertainty 

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Nick Chater, Professor Liam Delaney, Professor Paul Dolan, Professor Ulrike Hahn, Dr Grace Lordan

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Transboundary Crisis Management in Europe in the Wake of COVID-19

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Arjen Boin, Dr Lydie Cabane, Professor Martin Lodge, Professor Nick Sitter

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The Great Reversal in the Time of COVID-19

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Angelo Martelli, Professor Thomas Philippon

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COVID-19: the economic policy response

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Adnan Khan, Professor Ricardo Reis, Professor Silvana Tenreyro

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Government Assistance to Struggling Businesses in the COVID-19 Crisis

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Erica Bosio, Dr Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Professor Dimitri Vayanos

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Assessing the Impact of COVID-19: from mortality to misery?

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Paul Dolan, Dr Daisy Fancourt, Professor Lord Layard, Lord O'Donnell, Professor Carol Propper

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COVID-19 and its Impact on Euro Atlantic Security

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: General Sir James Everard, Dr Nathalie Tocci, Peter Watkins

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Responding to a Pandemic: the view from Latin America

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Laura Chinchilla, Ricardo Lagos, Juan Manuel Santos, Dr Ernesto Zedillo

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Addressing the Pandemic: the pharmaceutical challenges

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Dr Panos Kanavos, Professor Margaret Kyle, Professor Ken Shadlen

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Data–driven Responses to COVID–19: opportunities and limitations

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Orla Lynskey, Dr Alison Powell, Dr Edgar Whitley

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COVID-19 Economic Response: a comparative, cross-border perspective

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Reuben Abraham, Dr Ailish Campbell, Rain Newton-Smith, Kazumi Nishikawa

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COVID-19 and Africa: pandemics and global politics

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Assis Malaquias, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Dr Folashadé Soulé

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COVID-19 and Illicit Markets

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Naomi Burke-Shyne, Professor Gabriel Feltran, Kasia Malinowska, Mark Shaw, Alexander Söderholm

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Post COVID-19 Futures of the Urbanising World

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Creighton Connolly, Professor Roger Keil, Dr Deirdre McKay, Dr Rita Padawangi

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Fiscal Policies to Support People and Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Simeon Djankov,  Zsoka Koczan, Dr W. Raphael Lam, Catherine Pattillo, Dr Mehdi Raissi

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Europe in the Time of Coronavirus: responding to the political and economic challenges of COVID-19

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Chris Anderson, Professor Simon Glendinning, Professor Waltraud Schelkle

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Financial Strains, Health Pressures: Syria, Somalia and the COVID-19 impact

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Khalif Abdirahman, Professor Alex de Waal, Mazen Gharibah, Dr Nisar Majid, Dr Rim Turkmani, Khalif Abdirahman

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Six Political Philosophies in Search of a Virus: critical perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Gerard Delanty, Dr Sonja Avlijaš

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COVID-19: the health policy and care response

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Miqdad Asaria, Dr José-Luis Fernandez, Professor Alistair McGuire, Dr Clare Wenham

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Crucial Role of State Capacity in Crisis Response

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Tim Besley, Professor Adnan Khan, Professor Margaret Levi

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The Political Scar of Epidemics

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Chris Anderson, Professor Barry Eichengreen, Dr Anna Getmansky, Dr Cevat Giray Aksoy, Dr Orkun Saka

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Financing the Post-COVID-19 Recovery

podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Simeon Djankov, Anne-Laure Kiechel, Professor Ugo Panizza, Dr Jeromin Zettelmeyer

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Brexit and the Post-COVID-19 Options for the Economy

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Sir Tim Besley, Wolfgang Münchau, Vicky Pryce

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COVID-19 in South Asia: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Tania Aidrus, Yamini Aiyar, Professor Jishnu Das, Professor Mushfiq Mobarak

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Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Disability Policy

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Baroness Campbell, Neil Crowther, Clenton Farquharson, Liz Sayce

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Peace and the Pandemic

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Helen Clark, Helena Puig Larrauri, Dr Mareike Schomerus

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The New Authoritarianism: COVID-19 and the challenges facing democracy

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Guy Aitchison, Dr Luke Cooper, Dr Nadine El-Enany, Professor Shalini Randeria

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Religious Communities under COVID-19: the first pandemic of the postsecular age?

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Azza M Karam, Elizabeth Oldfield, Dr James Walters

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Life After COVID-19: challenges and policy response

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Michelle Bachelet, Helen Clark, Matteo Renzi, Kevin Rudd, Minouche Shafik

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Implications of COVID-19 in the Western Balkans

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Dr Arjan Gjonça, Dr Mario Holzner, Dr Sanja Vico

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Negotiating Our Post-Brexit Future: where are we heading?

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Catherine Barnard, Dr Meredith Crowley, Dr Adam Marshall, Professor Anand Menon, Professor Tony Travers

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Governments in the Crisis: what do we expect of them? what do they expect of us?

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor George Gerapetritis, Professor Bo Rothstein, Professor Amy Verdun

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COVID-19: the impact on the UK's ethnic minority populations

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Professor Kehinde Andrews, Dr Miqdad Asaria, Professor Lucinda Platt, Ross Warwick

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Policies to Fight the Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Eric Parrado Herrera, Dr Victoria Nuguer, Dr Andrew Powell, Professor Andrés Velasco, Brian Wynter

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Debt Relief and Africa During COVID-19: the global response

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Mma Amara Ekeruche, Professor Anna Gelpern, Eric LeCompte, Dr Shirley Yu

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Prospects for the UK Economy and Public Spending After COVID-19: new austerity or a new economy?

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Stephanie Flanders, Professor Stephen Machin, Dr Gemma Tetlow

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COVID-19 and the Economy: what are the lessons so far?

A video of this event is now available.

Speaker: Professor Silvana Tenreyro 

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Journalism, Power and Pandemic

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Anushka Asthana, Pippa Crerar, Annette Dittert, Richard Horton, Sir Craig Oliver

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How to Reform the WTO?

A podcast of this event is now available.

Speakers: Ambassador Dr Jesus Seade, Sir Vince Cable, Dr Swati Dhingra