The aim of the conference is to bring together current examples of innovative and important research on inequality from across the social sciences and to help chart a path forward for interdisciplinary research on inequality.
The conference features two keynote lectures, as well as a panel discussion. Please note that apart from these public events attendance at the conference is by invitation only.
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Keynote 1: If not Government, then What? A Three-Part Typology of Redistributive Preferences
Thursday 18 September 2025, 9.15 - 10.30am. In-person event.
Speaker: Leslie McCall, Stone Center, City University of New York
Panel Discussion: New Directions in Inequality Research
Thursday 18 September 2025, 5.30 - 6.45pm. In-person event.
Speakers: Facundo Alvaredo, Professorial Research Fellow, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics; Steven Durlauf, Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, University of Chicago; Larry Kramer, President and Vice-Chancellor, London School of Economics; Anne Phillips, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government, London School of Economics
Chair: Armine Ishkanian, Executive Director, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, London School of Economics
Keynote 2: Global inequality in historical and comparative perspective
Friday 19 September 2025, 3.30 - 4.30pm. In-person and online event.
Speaker: Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics
Questions about the conference may be addressed to iii.anniversary@lse.ac.uk.