PAST GUEST SPEAKERS HAVE COME FROM:

 

 

Adam Smith Institute

Centre for European Reform

Centre for Global Energy Studies

Civil Aviation Authority

Climate Change Capital

Commonwealth Development Corporation

Competition Authority

Cranfield Trust

Crown Agents

Deptartment for International Development

Deloitte Touche

Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund

Enterplan

Environmental Resources Management

European Bank for Reconstruction & Develop

European Investment Bank

European Union

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Glasgow Caledonian University

Global Water Partnership

Green Cross

International Finance Corporation

London School of Economics

London Transport

Office of Gas and Electricity Markets

Overseas Development Institute

Price Waterhouse Coopers

Royal African Society

Rowe and Maw

Steer Davis Gleave

Queen Mary’s College

The Economist

The Financial Times

UK Debt Management Office

University College, London

World Bank 

 

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RECENT SPEAKERS AND SUBJECTS HAVE INCLUDED:

 

Professor Nigel Harris                    The return of cosmopolitan capital: globalisation, the state & war  

Lord Meghnad Desai                      Development economics in an age of globalisation: has it changed? 

Creon Butler                                     The future of the Bretton Woods institutions: key issues

Andrew Rogerson                            The foreign aid system:  where is it heading?

 

Sheila Page                                     Agriculture in the WTO:  negotiations, disputes, vested interests

Jim Winpenny                                  Who will pay for the world’s water?

Chris Castles                                   The Channel Tunnel: success or failure? 

Simon Smith                                    The economics of low-cost airlines

Charles Yates                                  National Air Traffic Services (NATS): a model PPP?

Sir Christopher Foster                    Creating a viable railway for Britain: what has gone wrong?

Sonia Brown                                     Regulation of electricity markets: the trading arrangements

Graham Todd                                  Tourism - where is the largest industry in the world heading?

 

Anthony White                                 Carbon trading: the EU Scheme - how important is it?

K. Magner/R. Pratt                          Public Private Partnerships: does location matter?

Mike Williams                                  Addressing financial crises: debt management in UK & overseas

Robert Foster                                   Why has the UK set up independent competition authorities?

Andrew Loewenthal                         Whither private sector participation?

Amanda Perry-Kessaris                 Facing facts about legal systems and foreign direct investment

 

Richard Dowden                              What can turn Africa round?

Nick Howard                                     The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund: financing SSA’s needs

Katinka Barysch                              EU enlargement and the Euro: Eastern Europe and the UK debate

Mark Watson                                    Reconstruction and development in Afghanistan

Paul Reynolds                                 Iraq, the coalition’s legacy: current issues, long-term implications

Cliff Stevenson                                Trade Implications of China's accession to the WTO

 

Mary Arnesen                                  Social Impact Assessment and the work of economists

Roger Allport/JeremyBerkoff         Economic evaluation: Why so unsatisfactory and does it matter?

Roger Watkins                                 Working as a volunteer for small and medium-sized charities

Jonathan Ridley                              DFID’s Economic Res. Centre: what it means for ICEA members

Roundtable, ICEA                           The market for independent economic consultants