How to get government and the private sector to work together for the common good

Join us for this year's School of Public Policy Annual Lecture with guest speaker Sharon White.

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Dame Sharon White was the John Lewis Partnership's sixth Chairman from February 2020 to September 2024. Sharon moved to JLP from Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, where she served as Chief Executive. Before joining Ofcom, Sharon was Second Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, responsible for overseeing the public finances. She also held Board level positions at the Ministry of Justice and the Department for International Development: worked as an adviser at the Prime Minister's Policy Unit and in Washington DC as a senior economist at the World Bank. Sharon is also a trained economist and studied at Cambridge University and University College London.

Andrés Velasco (@AndresVelasco) is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE. He was previously the Minister of Finance of Chile between March 2006 and March 2010.

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