The Meetings Archive page lists past meetings (date, speaker and topic), together with the presentation and supporting papers when these have been provided to us by the speaker. They are listed in order of the dates on which the meetings were held. If you do not know the date of the meeting in which you are interested, and since the list is by now rather long, it is suggested that you search by name of speaker or by subject.
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Ron Smith “Why New Weapons are Deliered Late, Over-budget and Below Performance” presentation
Mike Williams “The Growth in Government Debt: What to do” presentation
Chris Tarry “The Future of Global Aviation Industry: Implications for Airlines, Airports and Passengers” presentation
Philip Kelly “Mongolia: Policy and Chamge 1990-2020″ presentation
Malcolm Summerfield “Gaza: Socio-Economic Status and Water Challenges” presentation
David Parish “Decarbonising the Power Sector” presentation
Alex Tilley “How the Aid Transparency Index Drives Change” presentation
Malcolm Summerfield (ICEA Member) “Sri Lanka – Civil War and Economic Recovery – A View” presentation
Ken Grundey ICEA Member “Ship Registration” presentation
Rachel Armstrong, KPMG Australia “The Gender Pay Gap” presentation
Nicholas Haslam “Syria” presentation
Mark Watson “Dominica: Disaster and Recovery following Extreme Weather Events” presentation
James Morton “Measuring the Impact of Impact Investing” presentation
Malcolm Summerfield “St Helena – Now the Airport is Open” presentation
Paul Le Blond “Past and Present Airports Policy for London and the South East” presentation
Ron Smith “Economic Forecasting – Why nobody knows anything” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: The Need for Feminist Economics; Contents; Introduction What do they want now?” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: What does Feminism Argue; What does this mean for economics?; Chapter I; Productive; Un-Productive” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: Gross Domestic Product; Q1 Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?; A:C Margaret Douglas (His Mum); Economic Context; Subordination in the Census” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: Q2 What is the Monetary value of unpaid carework worldwide; A:A Unpaid carework etc.; Take the Economics System; Add Women; AND Stir” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: Chapter II; Rational; Inferior; Economic Androcentrism; Economic Assumptions; Economic Frame of Reference” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: More Inclusive Assumption; Chapter III; Good for Growth; Good for Growth; Government and Military” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: Q3 Is GWP Growth Possible Foreover; GDP Per Capita (1990$)?; Does growth for the Rich Really Help the Poor?; Business from this Perspective; Scarcity Consciousness; Abundance Consciousness” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: The Doughnut; The Doughnut; Reinventing Money; Re-designing Business” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: Recent Developments” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: Summary” presentation
Marianne Moore “Feminist Economics: My Business is Feminist; The Greek Root etc.; Summary; Thank you for Listening” presentation
Geoffrey Payne “Urban Development and Land Tenure – Best Practice for Developing Countries” presentation
Anja Shortland “Ransom Kidnap-flyer” presentation
Leslie Sklair “The Economic Consequences of not taking the Anthropocene Seriously” presentation
Emma Sauvanet “Supporting SME Growth in Jordan” presentation
Peter Darley, ICEA Member “The King’s Cross Story – ICEA” presentation
Saoirse Mallorie “Do UK Universities Deliver Value for Money?” presentation
Jim Winpenny “Tke Riddle of UK Productivity” presentation
Tim Tutton “Government and Independent Regulation: how things have evolved since Privatisation” presentation
Ben Good, CEO, Energy 4 Impact “The Challenge of Energy Access in Africa: What to do about the 600m without power?” presentation
Dr Barry Humphreys CBE “Airline Regilation and Brexit” presentation
Ron Smith “Defence Economics” presentation
J Mark Bishop “Robots and the Economy” presentation
David Clarke “Positive Money 10 Years on” presentation
Has been Cancelled
Prof. Dimitrios P Tsomocos “Greece and the Euro” presentation
Robert Mwanamanga “Does Foreign Aid Promote Growth? Evidence from Malawi” presentation
Has been cancelled
Duncan McCann “The Pros and Cons of the Universal Basic Income” presentation
Dr Jonathan Fisher (ICEA Member) “Environmental regulation: economic impact and post-Brexit perspectives” presentation
Ron Smith “Calculating the Cost of Conflict” presentation
Prof. Tony Travers “London’s Role in the UK Economy – and the Future Challenges it Faces” presentation
Ed Straw “A New System of Government: What it would look like & Why not?” presentation
Daniel Hulls “A new Approach to Agricultural Development in Africa” presentation
Dr Judith Plummer Braeckman “Delays in infrastructure projects” presentation
Hugh Goldsmith “Infrastructure economics and finance in the (very) long run” presentation
Hilary Sunman “A very different land: memories of Empire from the farmlands of Kenya” presentation
James Morton “GM Crops – A Proxy War in Africa” presentation
John Gower “Reform of Nigeria’s Power Sector” presentation
Prof. Carol Propper, CBE FBA “Competition in Healthcare” presentation
Dr Dan O’Neill “The Case for a Steady State Economy” presentation
Corin Jones “Mainstreaming Better Cotton for Global Sustainable Impact” presentation
Dr Peter Davis “Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone: economic impact and recovery” presentation
Stefan Dercon “Informal presentation” presentation
Matthew Juden “Are Randomised Controlled Trials the New Gold Standard in Development Evaluation” presentation
Patrick Meehan “Promises and Pitfalls on Burma/Myanmar’s road to reform” presentation
Jim Winpenny (ICEA Member) “Finding the money for water” presentation
Dr Costas Mitropoulos “Not managing an economic crisis: lessons from Greece” presentation
Malcolm Summerfield “Chagos Islands (Indian Ocean): Economic and Financial Implications of Possible Resettlement” presentation
Martin Blaiklock “Infrastructure: Why the Lack of Investment” presentation
Adil Hussain “Islamic Finance – Market Insights and Structures” presentation
Conrad Fritsch “Revisiting Soviet Collective Agriculture: 20 Years after Restructuring” presentation
Greg Kaser “Why is Nuclear Energy so (Damn) Expensive?” presentation
Harry Shutt “Life after the (next) financial crisis” presentation
Robin Anson “Pass-Through Analysis of Fibre Prices in the Cotton Supply Chain”
Prof Julian Cooper “The Russian Economy in a Time of Troubles” presentation
Prof Henry G Overman “The economic future of British cities: what should urban policy do?” presentation
Dr Katya Kocourek “The EU Banking Union Outside the Euro Area”, the speaker has requested that this presentation should be available to ICEA members only, anyone wishing to receive a copy please contact secretariat@icea.co.uk
Sam Fankhauser “Putting a Price on Carbon” presentation
Nick Kochan “Money laundering: western countries’ gift to corrupt politicians in the developing world presentation
John Francies “Kabul Bank: Fraud, Governance and Clean-up presentation
Dr Peter Abelson (B.A.Oxon, Ph.D. Lond. “Is Australia still the Lucky Country? A view of Australia: from the inside” presentation
David Williams “Yes, But what about China?” Renewable energy in the BRICS” presentation
Alan Barlow “Addressing Corruption in Developing Countries–the Work of Integrity Action” presentation
Alistair Gammell “The Pew Charitable Trusts and its Work to Establish Large Protected Marine Reserves” presentation
Ray Tomkins “Is the UK still leading power sector reform?” presentation
Dr James Morton “International Aid and the two Sudans – a Case Study in Aid Effectiveness” presentation
Sam Parker “Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor” presentation
Ben Prynn “The Private Finance Initiative” presentation
Tim Leunig “A new Solution for Heathrow” Anyone wishing to receive a copy of the presentation please contact Tim Leunig the speaker direct on this email tim.leunig@centreforum.org
Malcolm Summerfield “The Economies of Small Islands: The Case of Pitcairn, Tristan da Cunha and St Helena” presentation
Peter Dixon “Tidal Energy: Economic Reality or Fantasy?’” presentation
Andrew Gibbons and Neil Davies “Helping get the Biggest Bang for the Taxpayer’s Buck-What Economists in the MOD Do’” presentation
Nigel Wilkins “Financial Regulation” [No presentation available]
Rachel English “Rural Energy Accesss–a Personal Perspective’” presentation
David Henderson “The Case Against ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’” presentation
David Parish “Afghanistan: Unsustainable Development?” PowerPoint presentation
Roy Behnke “The governance of the African commons” No presentation available
Dr Emma Mawdsley “The Rising Powers and International Development: what can anthropology tell
us about international relations?” PowerPoint presentation
Sean Baine “Why more equality is better for everyone – the evidence presented in The Spirit Level” PowerPoint presentation
Bridget Rosewell “Reconciling Short Term and Long Term Investments an Infrastructure – Where is this Done Well?” PowerPoint presentation
Prof Christine Whitehead “The UK Housing Market: will it ever be the same again?” PowerPoint presentation
George Magnus “Whither Europe?” presentation
John Christensen “Tax havens: how to tackle these “Treasure Islands”?” presentation
Glenn Athey “England’s Regional Development Agencies-from abolition to lessons learnt for the future” PowerPoint presentation
Members celebrated the silver jubilee of ICEA at a party in the Art Workers’ Guild. Pictures from party in the Art Workers’ Guild
James Morton “How to Govern Darfur?” presentation
Sue Holloway “The charity and its Work” presentation
Mark Lowcock “Changing lives, delivering results: the government’s international development priorities” PowerPoint presentation
Dr Peter Collecott “Brazil: has the future finally arrived?” PowerPoint presentation
Costas Mitropoulos “The Eurozone and Greek Sovereign debt crisis” PowerPoint presentation
Gregory Smith “Planning and budgeting in Southern Sudan” PowerPoint presentation
Dr Eamonn Molloy “Optimism bias in major infrastructure projects” PowerPoint presentation
Jim Steer “The case for high speed rail in the UK” PowerPoint presentation
Anna Coote “21 hours: the case for a much shorter working week” PowerPoint presentation
Anke Hoeffler “Causes and consequences of Civil War” PowerPoint presentation
Phil Vernon “How to improve the effectiveness of development aid” PowerPoint presentation
Jeremy Drew “European rail policy” PowerPoint presentation
Jamie Simpson/Ted Laing “Ports” PowerPoint presentation
John Kay “The industry of finance” PowerPoint presentation
David Stubbs “The privatisation of Royal Mail” PowerPoint presentation
Carol Wills “Fair trade: development initiative, market standard or political movement? Whatever you think does it make sense economically?” PowerPoint presentation
Christopher Gilbert “Excessive speculation” PowerPoint presentation
Peter Fowler “Economic and political development and prospects in Bangladesh” Presentation notes
Roger Allport “Improving decision-maing for major urban rail projects” PowerPoint presentation
Sophie Tremolet “Private money for public water: a safe haven in the midst of a financial ftorm?” PowerPoint presentation
Andrew Oswald “Happiness and economic policy” PowerPoint presentation
George Magnus “Out of the fire of financial crisis into the frying pan of demographic change: how on earth will we cope?” Presentation notes
David Parish “Power sector reform in Asia (second edition)” PowerPoint presentation
David Parish “Power sector reeform in Asia: is it working?” PowerPoint presentation
Peter Darley/Jeremy Berkoff “The Dead Sea: should it be saved?” PowerPoint presentation
Robin Pratt “Spectrum allocation: challenges for a world connected without wires” Presentation notes
Nick Bates/Hilary Sunman “Trading for peace: achieving security and poverty reduction through trade in natural resources in the Great Lakes area” PowerPoint presentation
Sir Christopher Foster “Improving the governing of Britain” Presentation notes
David Quarmby “Transport for London: the last ten years and looking forward” PowerPoint presentation
Daniel Large “Is China taking over Africa?” PowerPoint presentation
Dr Christopher Stevens “Biofuels and development: will the EU help or hinder?” PowerPoint presentation
Malcolm Green “Reform and governance in Palestine political and economic issues facing Israel and Palestine in 2008″ PowerPoint presentation
Malcolm Green “Notes from the meeting” Presentation notes
James Morton “The research/practice interface a practitioner’s view” PowerPoint presentation
Dimitri Zenghalis “The Stern review: economics of climate change: value judgments, welfare weights and discounting” PowerPoint presentation
Jeremy Berkoff “Meeting report on opium” Presentation notes
Jeremy Berkoff “The economics of opium: implications for drugs reform” PowerPoint presentation
Jeremy Berkoff “The opium economy: a possible approach to reform, (draft paper), June 2007″ Presentation notes
Dr Celia Szusterman “The changing economic and political relationship between Latin America and China” PowerPoint presentation
Judith Plummer “Can India solve its power criris?” Presentation notes
Bojan Markovic “The impact of Chinese macro-economic policy on European economic prospects: should Europe be wary about China’s peg to the dollar” PowerPoint presentation
Garth Armstrong “The Western Balkans; economic progress and problems” PowerPoint presentation
Professor Paul E M Reynolds “Pakistan, challenges in political economic development” PowerPoint presentation
Professor Paul E M Reynolds “Pakistan talk” Presentation notes
Elaine Trimble “Planning an environmental city in China: the Dongtan Masterplan” Presentation notes
Nigel Harris “Is there a future for immigration?” Presentation notes
Martin Wolf “Globalization and his recent book: why globalization works” PowerPoint presentation
Martin Wolf “Why globalization works” Presentation notes
Chris Smith “The new approach to the appraisal of transport projects” Presentation notes
Susan Kramer “Access to micro-finance in the developing world: a Liberal Democrat perspective” Presentation notes
Professor John Appleby “Will patient choice improve the NHS?” Meetin notice
Stuart Reynolds “A new era of global steel: the end of state control and protectionism” PowerPoint presentation
Professor Paul E M Reynolds “Donor-funded technical assistance, lessons from the front line” PowerPoint presentation
Philip Kelly “Donor-funded technical assistance, lessons from the front line” PowerPoint presentation
Fadi Hakura “The Turkish economy and its prospects: preparing for the EU” PowerPoint presentation
Martin Adams “Land reform and land administration in Sub-Saharan Africa” Presentation notes
Elizabeth Daley “Land reform and land administration in Sub-Saharan Africa” Presentation notes
Ian Alexander “Providing incentives for regulated infrastructure companies to deliver investment” PowerPoint presentation
Paul Reynolds “The Chinese economy: soft landing? Hard landing? Or worse?” PowerPoint presentation
Graham Todd “Tourism: where is the largest industry in the world heading?” PowerPoint presentation
Graham Todd “Tourism summary” Presentation notes
Clive Daniels/Chris Castles/James McLeod “Role of the Consulting Economists: past, present and future” Presentation notes
Clive Daniels/Chris Castles/James McLeod “Consulting Economists” PowerPoint presentation
Sheila Page “Agriculture in the WTO: negotiations, disputes and vested interests” Presentation notes
Sheila Page “Doha development agenda” Presentation notes
Simon Smith “The strategies and effects of low-cost airlines” PowerPoint presentation
Anthony White “Carbon trading: how does the EU scheme function and how important is it?” PowerPoint presentation
Richard Dowden “What can turn Africa round?” Meeting notice
Kevin Magner/Robin Pratt “Public private partnerships: does location matter?” PowerPoint presentation
Lord Megnad Desai “Development economics in an age of globalisation: has the subject change? Is it helpful?” Meeting notice
Andrew Rogerson “The foreign aid system: where is it heading?” PowerPoint presentation
Sir Christopher Foster “Transport on reform of the UK railways” PowerPoint presentation
Roger Watkins “The Cranfield Trust: working as a volunteer for small and medium-sized charities” Meeting notice
Mike Williams “Debt management in the UK and overseas” PowerPoint presentation
Robert Foster “Why has the UK set up independent competition authorities?” PowerPoint presentation
Paul Reynolds “Iraq: The legacy of the coalition” Meeting notice
Jonathan Ridley “DFID’s Economic Resource Centre” Presentation notes
Jim Winpenny “Who will pay for the world’s water?” Presentation notes
Mary Ameson “Social impact assessment does it complicate or complement the work of economists?” PowerPoint presentation
Charles Yates “The national air traffic services: a model public private partnership?” Presentation notes
Amanda Perry-Kessaris “Finding and facing facts about legal systems and FDI” PowerPoint presentation
Chris Castles “Eurotunnel: success or failure” PowerPoint presentation
Chris Castles “Eurotunnel: success or failure” Presentation notes
Katinka Barysch “EU enlargement and the Euro-Eastern Europe links to the UK debate” Meeting notice
Nigel Harris “The return of cosmopolitan capital” Meeting notice
Creon Butler “The future focus of the Bretton Woods Institutions: key issues in the debate” Presentation notes
Mark Watson “Reconstruction and development in Afghanistan. An overview and reiew of opportunities for Economic Consultants” Presentation notes
Mark Watson “Reconstruction and development in Afghanistan. An overview and reiew of opportunities for Economic Consultants” Presentation notes
Tony Murray/James Morton/Jeremy Drew “The market for independent Economic Consultants” Presentation notes