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13May

The UK’s international exposures and vulnerabilities

Hosted by the Centre For Macroeconomics
Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building
Wednesday 13 May 2026 6pm - 7.15pm

Join Catherine L Mann for this special lecture, as she explores the UK’s international exposures and vulnerabilities.

Meet our speaker and chair

Catherine L Mann is an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England. Catherine's academic and research affiliations include professor of the practice at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, and honorary professor at the University of Manchester and the Productivity Institute. She was in the first cohort of fellows of Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Royal Economics Society. Her research has focused on international economic relationships and outcomes, covering trade, finance, climate, productivity and inequality. She has authored or co-authored seven books, more than 60 articles and several shorter pieces and testimony.

Ricardo Reis (@R2Rsquared) is the A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics at LSE. Recent honours include the 2022 Carl Menger prize, the 2021 Yrjo Jahnsson medal, election for the Econometric Society in 2019, the 2017 BdF/TSE junior prize, and the 2016 Bernacer prize. He is an academic consultant at the Bank of England, the Riksbank, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, directs the Centre for Macroeconomics, and serves on the council or as an advisor to multiple organisations.

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The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) is a research centre that brings together a group of world class experts to carry out pioneering research on the study of nations’ prosperity, and the crises that afflict them, helping to design policies that will create a healthier and more resilient economy.

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