Meetings
The Meetings Archive page lists past meetings (date, speaker and topic). . 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.
July 17th, 2024
Macro-Fiscal Challenges Confronting the Palestinian Authority
Saite Lu
June 19th, 2024
| We Need to Talk about Islam and the Western Blight on Sudanese Politics |
James Morton
May 15th 2024
| An Amateur Economist let loose in British Rail |
James MacKay
April 17th,2024
| Data Centres |
Ashley Collins
March 20th, 2024
| Foreign and Domestic Policy Implications of a Trump Presidency |
Brandon Barford
February 21st 2024
Train and Boats and Cranes
David Dixon
January17th 2024
| The Role of Offshore Wind in Meeting Net Zero |
Charles Yates
November 15th, 2023
| Defence Innovation: Spin-in or Spin-out |
Ron Smith
October 18th, 2023
| Ukraine: Economy and Post-Conflict Reconstruction |
Oleg Naumenko
July 19th, 2023
| Why did it all go so wrong ? Success and failure in livestock development initiatives in Asia |
Edward Mallorie
June 21st, 2023
Country Splits – Who gets What
John Francies
May 17th, 2023
“Overkill or Under-kill – The West’s overreaction and underreaction in the Middle East over recent decades
Anthony Paice
March 15th, 2023
“Georgia’s Economy, Recent Politics and 10 year Plan Preparation
Salome Mekvabishvili
February 15th, 2023
“British Columbia, Canada & Europe – Opportunities and Challenges″
Rupert Potter
January 18th, 2023
“Rail’s potential contribution to decarbonisation in developing countries
Jeremy Drew
November 16th, 2022
“China – Infrastructure Investment in Africa and Structural Transformation
Saite Lu
October 19th, 2022
“Economic Appraisal for Water Management”
Jonathan Fisher
July 20th, 2022
“Green Revolution”
Brandon Barford
June15th, 2022
“Purpose Delivered”
Alan Barlow
May 18th, 2022
““Why New Weapons are Delivered Late, Over-budget and Below Performance”
Ron Smith
April 20th,2022
The Growth in Government Debt: What to do ?
Mike Williams
March 16th,2022
The Future of the Global Aviation Industry: Implications for Airlines Airports and Passengers
Chris Tarry
February 16th, 2022
“Mongolia: Policy and Chamge 1990-2020″
Philip Kelly
November 17th, 2021
Gaza: Socio-Economic Status and Water Challenges“”
Malcolm Summerfield
October 22nd, 2021
“Decarbonising the Power Sector”
David Parish
July 21st, 2021
“How the Aid Transparency Index Drives Change”
Alex Tilley
June 16th, 2021
“Sri Lanka – Civil War and Economic Recovery”
Malcolm Summerfield
May 19th, 2021
“Ship Registration”
Ken Grundey
April 21st, 2021
“The Gender Pay Gap”
Rachel Armstrong
March 17th, 2021
“Syria”
Nicholas Haslam
February 17th, 2021
“Dominica: Disaster and Recovery following Extreme Weather Events”
Mark Watson
January 20th, 2021
“Measuring the Impact of Impact Investing”
James Morton
November 18th, 2020
“St Helena – Now the Airport is Open”
Malcolm Summerfield
October 21st, 2020
“Past and Present Airports Policy for London and the South East”
Paul Le Blond
July 15th, 2020
“Economic Forecasting – Why nobody knows anything”
Ron Smith
May 20th, 2020
Feminist Economics
Marianne Moore
February 19th, 2020
“Urban Development and Land Tenure – Best Practice for Developing Countries”
Geoffrey Payne
January 15th, 2020
“Ransom Kidnap ”
Anja Shortland
November 19th, 2019
“The Economic Consequences of not taking the Anthropocene Seriously”
Leslie Sklair
October 16th, 2019
“Supporting SME Growth in Jordan”
Emma Sauvanet
July 16th, 2019
“The King’s Cross Story”
Peter Darley
June 19th, 2019
“Do UK Universities Deliver Value for Money?”
Saoirse Mallorie
May 15th, 2019
“Tke Riddle of UK Productivity”
Jim Winpenny
April 03th, 2019
“Government and Independent Regulation: how things have evolved since Privatisation”
Tim Tutton
March 06th, 2019
“The Challenge of Energy Access in Africa: What to do about the 600m without power?”
Ben Good, CEO, Energy 4 Impact
February 06th, 2019
“Airline Regilation and Brexit”
Dr Barry Humphreys CBE
January 16th, 2019
“Defence Economics”
Ron Smith
November 07th, 2018
“Robots and the Economy”
J Mark Bishop
October 11th, 2018
“Positive Money 10 Years on”
David Clarke
July 11th, 2018
Cancelled
June 20th, 2018
“Greece and the Euro”
Prof. Dimitrios P Tsomocos
May 15th, 2018
“Does Foreign Aid Promote Growth? Evidence from Malawi”
Robert Mwanamanga
April 03, 2018
Cancelled
March 21st, 2018
“The Pros and Cons of the Universal Basic Income”
Duncan McCann
February 13th, 2018
“Environmental regulation: economic impact and post-Brexit perspectives”
Dr Jonathan Fisher
January 09th, 2018
“Calculating the Cost of Conflict”
Ron Smith
November 15th, 2017
“London’s Role in the UK Economy – and the Future Challenges it Faces”
Prof. Tony Travers
October 10th, 2017
“A New System of Government: What it would look like & Why not?”
Ed Straw
July 11th, 2017
“A new Approach to Agricultural Development in Africa”
Daniel Hulls
June 14th, 2017
“Delays in infrastructure projects”
Dr Judith Plummer Braeckman
May 17th, 2017
“Infrastructure economics and finance in the (very) long run”
Hugh Goldsmith
April 11th, 2017
“A very different land: memories of Empire from the farmlands of Kenya”
Hilary Sunman
March 15th, 2017
“GM Crops – A Proxy War in Africa”
James Morton
February 15th, 2017
“Reform of Nigeria’s Power Sector”
John Gower
January 11th, 2017
“Competition in Healthcare”
Prof. Carol Propper, CBE FBA
November 9th, 2016
“The Case for a Steady State Economy”
Dr Dan O’Neill
October 12th, 2016
“Mainstreaming Better Cotton for Global Sustainable Impact”
Corin Jones
July 5th, 2016
“Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone: economic impact and recovery”
Dr Peter Davis
June 8th, 2016
“Informal presentation”
Stefan Dercon
May 11th, 2016
“Are Randomised Controlled Trials the New Gold Standard in Development Evaluation”
Matthew Juden
April 12th, 2016
“Promises and Pitfalls on Burma/Myanmar’s road to reform”
Patrick Meehan
March 9th, 2016
“Finding the money for water”
Dr Dan O’Neill
February 18th, 2016
“Not managing an economic crisis: lessons from Greece”
Dr Costas Mitropoulos
January 13th, 2016
“Chagos Islands (Indian Ocean): Economic and Financial Implications of Possible Resettlement”
Malcolm Summerfield
November 04th, 2015
“Infrastructure: Why the Lack of Investment”
Martin Blaiklock
October 07th, 2015
“Islamic Finance – Market Insights and Structures”
Adil Hussain
July 15th, 2015
“Revisiting Soviet Collective Agriculture: 20 Years after Restructuring”
Conrad Fritsch
June 17th, 2015
“Why is Nuclear Energy so (Damn) Expensive?”
Greg Kaser
May 13th, 2015
“Life after the (next) financial crisis”
Harry Shutt
April 15th, 2015
“Pass-Through Analysis of Fibre Prices in the Cotton Supply Chain”
Robin Anson
March 11th, 2015
“The Russian Economy in a Time of Troubles”
Prof Julian Cooper
February 11th, 2015
“The economic future of British cities: what should urban policy do?”
Prof Henry G Overman
January 14th, 2015
“The EU Banking Union Outside the Euro Area”
Dr Katya Kocourek
November 11th, 2014
“Putting a Price on Carbon”
Sam Fankhauser
October 15th, 2014
“Money laundering: western countries’ gift to corrupt politicians in the developing world
Nick Kochan
July 16th, 2014
“Kabul Bank: Fraud, Governance and Clean-up
John Francies
June 18th, 2014
“Is Australia still the Lucky Country? A view of Australia: from the inside”
Dr Peter Abelson
May 21st, 2014
“Yes, But what about China?” Renewable energy in the BRICS”
David Williams
April 9th, 2014
“Addressing Corruption in Developing Countries–the Work of Integrity Action”
Alan Barlow
March 19th, 2014
“The Pew Charitable Trusts and its Work to Establish Large Protected Marine Reserves”
Alistair Gammell
January 22nd, 2014
“Is the UK still leading power sector reform?”
Ray Tomkins
November 27th, 2013
“International Aid and the two Sudans – a Case Study in Aid Effectiveness”
Dr James Morton
October 16th, 2013
“Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor”
Sam Parker
July 09th, 2013
“The Private Finance Initiative”
Ben Prynn
June 11th, 2013
“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
Tim Leunig
April 09th, 2013
“The Economies of Small Islands: The Case of Pitcairn, Tristan da Cunha and St Helena”
Malcolm Summerfield
March 12th, 2013
“Tidal Energy: Economic Reality or Fantasy?’”
Peter Dixon
February 12th, 2013
“Helping get the Biggest Bang for the Taxpayer’s Buck-What Economists in the MOD Do’”
Andrew Gibbons and Neil Davies
January 15th, 2013
“Financial Regulation”
Nigel Wilkins
November 13th, 2012
“Rural Energy Accesss–a Personal Perspective’”
Rachel English
October 9th, 2012
“The Case Against ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’”
David Henderson
July 10th, 2012
“Afghanistan: Unsustainable Development?”
David Parish
June 12th, 2012
“The governance of the African commons”
Roy Behnke
May 15th, 2012
“Why more equality is better for everyone – the evidence presented in The Spirit Level”
Dr Emma Mawdsley
April 17th, 2012
“Why more equality is better for everyone – the evidence presented in The Spirit Level”
Sean Baine
March 13th, 2012
“Reconciling Short Term and Long Term Investments an Infrastructure – Where is this Done Well?”
Bridget Rosewell
February 14th, 2012
“The UK Housing Market: will it ever be the same again?”
Prof Christine Whitehead
January 10th, 2012
“Whither Europe?”
George Magnus
November 16th, 2011
“Tax havens: how to tackle these “Treasure Islands”?”
John Christensen
October 11th, 2011
“England’s Regional Development Agencies-from abolition to lessons learnt for the future”
Glenn Athey
September 21st, 2011
Members celebrated the silver jubilee of ICEA at a party in the Art Workers’ Guild.
July 13th, 2011
“How to Govern Darfur?”
James Morton
June 14th, 2011
“The charity and its Work”
Sue Holloway
May 11th, 2011
“Changing lives, delivering results: the government’s international development priorities”
Mark Lowcock
April 12th, 2011
“Brazil: has the future finally arrived?”
Dr Peter Collecott
March 24th, 2011
“The Eurozone and Greek Sovereign debt crisis”
Costas Mitropoulos
February 8th, 2011
“Planning and budgeting in Southern Sudan”
Gregory Smith
January 18th, 2011
“Optimism bias in major infrastructure projects”
Dr Eamonn Molloy
November 9th, 2010
“The case for high speed rail in the UK”
Jim Steer
October 12th, 2010
“21 hours: the case for a much shorter working week”
Anna Coote
July 13th, 2010
“Causes and consequences of Civil War”
Anke Hoeffler
June 8th, 2010
“How to improve the effectiveness of development aid”
Phil Vernon
May 11th, 2010
“European rail policy”
Jeremy Drew
April 13th, 2010
“Ports”
Jamie Simpson/Ted Laing
March 2nd, 2010
“The industry of finance”
John Kay
February 9th, 2010
“The privatisation of Royal Mail”
David Stubbs
January 21st, 2010
“Fair trade: development initiative, market standard or political movement? Whatever you think does it make sense economically?”
Carol Wills
November 9th, 2009
“Excessive speculation”
Christopher Gilbert
October 13th, 2009
“Economic and political development and prospects in Bangladesh”
Peter Fowler
July 7th, 2009
“Improving decision-maing for major urban rail projects”
Roger Allport
June 16th, 2009
“Private money for public water: a safe haven in the midst of a financial ftorm?”
Sophie Tremolet
May 12th, 2009
“Happiness and economic policy”
Andrew Oswald
April 21st, 2009
“Out of the fire of financial crisis into the frying pan of demographic change: how on earth will we cope?”
George Magnus
March 10th, 2009
“Power sector reform in Asia (second edition)”
David Parish
January 13th, 2009
“Power sector reeform in Asia: is it working?”
David Parish
October 7th, 2008
“The Dead Sea: should it be saved?”
Peter Darley/Jeremy Berkoff
July 8th, 2008
“Spectrum allocation: challenges for a world connected without wires”
Robin Pratt
June 9th, 2008
“Trading for peace: achieving security and poverty reduction through trade in natural resources in the Great Lakes area”
Nick Bates/Hilary Sunman
May 13th, 2008
“Improving the governing of Britain”
Sir Christopher Foster
April 8th, 2008
“Transport for London: the last ten years and looking forward”
David Quarmby
March 3rd, 2008
“Is China taking over Africa?”
Daniel Large
February 12th, 2008
“Biofuels and development: will the EU help or hinder?”
Dr Christopher Stevens
January 8th, 2008
“Reform and governance in Palestine political and economic issues facing Israel and Palestine in 2008″
Malcolm Green
November 13th, 2007
“The research/practice interface a practitioner’s view”
James Morton
October 9th, 2007
“The Stern review: economics of climate change: value judgments, welfare weights and discounting”
Dimitri Zenghalis
July 10th, 2007
“The economics of opium: implications for drugs reform”
“The opium economy: a possible approach to reform, (draft paper), June 2007″
Jeremy Berkoff
June 12th, 2007
“The changing economic and political relationship between Latin America and China”
Dr Celia Szusterman
May 8th, 2007
“Can India solve its power criris?”
Judith Plummer
April 12th, 2007
“The impact of Chinese macro-economic policy on European economic prospects: should Europe be wary about China’s peg to the dollar”
Bojan Markovic
March 13th, 2007
“The Western Balkans; economic progress and problems”
Garth Armstrong
February 13th, 2007
“Pakistan, challenges in political economic development”
Professor Paul E M Reynolds
November 9th 2008
Fixing Failed States
Claire Lockhart
February 10th 2009
The Global Financial Crisis. Causes and Cures
Andrew Farrow
January 9th, 2007
“Planning an environmental city in China: the Dongtan Masterplan”
Elaine Trimble
November 14th, 2006
“Is there a future for immigration?”
Nigel Harris
October 12th, 2006
“Globalization and his recent book: why globalization works”
Martin Wolf
July 11th, 2006
“The new approach to the appraisal of transport projects”
Chris Smith
June 13th, 2006
“Access to micro-finance in the developing world: a Liberal Democrat perspective”
Susan Kramer
May 9th, 2006
“Will patient choice improve the NHS?”
Professor John Appleby
April 11th, 2006
“A new era of global steel: the end of state control and protectionism”
Stuart Reynolds
March 14th, 2006
“Donor-funded technical assistance, lessons from the front line”
Philip Kelly
February 14th, 2006
“The Turkish economy and its prospects: preparing for the EU”
Fadi Hakura
January 10th, 2006
“Land reform and land administration in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Martin Adams
Elizabeth Daley
November 8th, 2005
“Providing incentives for regulated infrastructure companies to deliver investment”
Ian Alexander
October 11th, 2005
“The Chinese economy: soft landing? Hard landing? Or worse?”
Paul Reynolds
July 5th, 2005
“Tourism: where is the largest industry in the world heading?”
Graham Todd
June 7th, 2005
Consulting Economists: past, present and future”
Clive Daniels/Chris Castles/James McLeod
May 10th, 2005
“Agriculture in the WTO: negotiations, disputes and vested interests”
Doha development agenda”
Sheila Page
April 5th, 2005
“The strategies and effects of low-cost airlines”
Simon Smith
March 1st, 2005
“Carbon trading: how does the EU scheme function and how important is it?”
Anthony White
February 1st, 2005
“What can turn Africa round?”
Richard Dowden
January 11th, 2005
“Public private partnerships: does location matter?”
Kevin Magner/Robin Pratt
November 2nd, 2004
“Development economics in an age of globalisation: has the subject change? Is it helpful?”
Lord Megnad Desai
October 5th, 2004
“The foreign aid system: where is it heading?”
Andrew Rogerson
July 8th, 2004
“Transport on reform of the UK railways”
Sir Christopher Foster
June 2nd, 2004
“The Cranfield Trust: working as a volunteer for small and medium-sized charities”
Roger Watkins
May 5th, 2004
“Debt management in the UK and overseas”
Mike Williams
April 14th, 2004
“Why has the UK set up independent competition authorities?”
Robert Foster
March 3rd, 2004
“Iraq: The legacy of the coalition”
Paul Reynolds
February 4th, 2004
“DFID’s Economic Resource Centre”
Jonathan Ridley
January 7th, 2004
“Who will pay for the world’s water?”
Jim Winpenny
November 5th, 2003
“Social impact assessment does it complicate or complement the work of economists?”
Mary Ameson
October 1st, 2003
“The national air traffic services: a model public private partnership?”
Charles Yates
July 2nd, 2003
“Finding and facing facts about legal systems and FDI”
Amanda Perry-Kessaris
June 4th, 2003
“Eurotunnel: success or failure”
Chris Castles
May 7th, 2003
“EU enlargement and the Euro-Eastern Europe links to the UK debate”
Katinka Barysch
April 2nd, 2003
“The return of cosmopolitan capital”
Nigel Harris
February 5th, 2003
“The future focus of the Bretton Woods Institutions: key issues in the debate”
Creon Butler
January 29th, 2003
“Reconstruction and development in Afghanistan. An overview and reiew of opportunities for Economic Consultants”
Mark Watson
November 20th, 2002
“The market for independent Economic Consultants”
