About the LSE Festival
The LSE Festival is an intellectually stimulating series of events, which engages a wide public audience with LSE research and expertise. It brings together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how we can learn lessons from the past, tackle the challenges of today and shape the future. The Festival draws on key thinkers as well as world-class LSE academics. All events are free to attend and open to all.
The 2026 Festival will take place from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June 2026 on the theme of "How to save the planet". LSE Festival 2025 imagined diverse better futures, but they would be meaningless if coming at the expense of our planet. What can (and should) we be doing to save the Earth, its people and environment?
Festival events are imaginative, innovative, energetic, and use a variety of formats designed to stimulate thought and debate and engage a wide public audience in the research and character of LSE.
We have had the pleasure of welcoming many high profile speakers, including Amartya Sen, Daron Acemoglu, Anthony Scaramucci, Elif Shafak, Martin Lewis, Kim Stanley Robinson, Juan Manuel Santos, Sadiq Khan, Adam Curtis, Ann Pettifor, Amica Dall, Margaret Busby, Daniel Susskind, Danny Dorling, Louise Doughty, Nicholas Timmins, Polly Toynbee, Lord Willetts, Danny Quah, Bridget Kendalland Diane Abbott.
Over the last six years:
- We welcomed almsot 20,000 visitorsto the LSE campus and over 15,000 live online viewers
- Our podcasts were downloaded over 2.5 million times
- Our event videos were watched 250,000 times
If you would like to get involved, please get in touch with us at comms.events@lse.ac.uk.