Public Lectures

 

2013

23rd, 24th and 25th April Professor Brian Copeland, University of British Columbia to present the Nottingham Lectures in International Economics, 'International Trade and the Environment'

2012

15th February Professor Hal Hill, Australian National University to present the Boustead Annual Globalisation Lecture, at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia 'Malaysia's development challenges: Graduating from the middle'

16th February Professor Chris Milner, Professor of International Economics, GEP, University of Nottingham to present The World Economy Annual Asia Lecture 'Declining Protection in Developing Countries: Fact or Fiction?'

7th March David Fenton, Head of Corporate, at the Royal Bank of Scotland 'A Ring Side View of the Economic Crisis'

13th, 14th and 15th March Professor Peter Neary, University of Oxford to present the Nottingham lectures in International Economics 'Firms, Market Structure and Trade'

28th March Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times 'The Shift and the Shocks: Prospects for the World Economy'

  

2011

23rd February Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times 'Challenges to Sustaining China's Growth'

8th, 9th and 10th March Jim Anderson, Boston College will present the 2011 Nottingham lectures in International Economics on 'The Gravity Model'

24th March Kate Barker, Special Adviser at Credit Suisse and former Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. 'What problems does globalistaion pose for inflation-targeting in the UK?'

30th March Lord Wolfson, Chief Executive of Next 'Business, Government and the Growth Agenda'

8th June Professor Robert Staiger, Stanford University will present The World Economy Annual Lecture 'What Does Globalization Mean for the WTO? A View from Economics'

2nd November David Smith, Economics Editor, The Sunday Times to present The Youngor Annual Globalisation Lecture 'After the Great Recession: Can Emerging Economies meet the Growth Challenge?'

3rd November Jun Zhang, Professor of Economics and Director of the China Centre for Economic Studies, Fudan University to present The World Economy China Lecture 'Why Zhu Rongji Might be Right: Understanding the Mechanism of Economic Development in China'

 

2010

27th January Professor Alan Winters, Chief Economist, Department for International Development, 'Where does the crisis leave Globalisation'

16-18th February Jim Rauch, University of California will present the 2010 Nottingham Lectures in International Economics on 'Interpersonal Relationships in International Trade'

3rd March Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times, 'China in the World Economy'

24th June Professor Carl Davidson, Professor of Economics, Michigan State University. 'Trade, Policy and Unemployment'

12th October Roger Bootle , Managing Director, Capital Economics. 'The Trouble with Markets - Saving Capitalism from Itself'

9th November Martin Wolf, The Financial Times to present The World Economy Annual China Lecture Challenges to Sustaining China’s Growth’

 

2009

29th January David Blanchflower, Dartmouth College and Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee and Dartmouth College, 'Macroeconomic Policy Responses in the UK.'

3rd November Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline plc, 'Strategies for a Global Company in a Personal Age'

26th November Lord Davies, Minister for Trade, Investment and Small Business, 'Exploiting the UK's Talent for Innovation'.

7th December David Metcalf, Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Chair of the new Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), 'British Immigration Policy and Work'

 

2008

19th November Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economic History, University of Warwick, 'The Changing Place of Britain in the World Economy: A Long-Term Perspective'

22nd October Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times , 'Fixing Global Finance'

23rd April Hamid Mughal, Executive Vice President, Rolls Royce Plc, 'The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalisation'

5th March Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times , 'Why the Subprime Crisis is a Turning Point for the World Economy'

 

2007

4th December David Smith, Economics Editor, The Sunday Times. 'The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order.'

15th November Professor Paul Collier, University of Oxford: 'The Bottom Billion'

15th March Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times, 'The Rise of the Asian Giants: India and China Compared'

 

2006

11th December Gavin Menzies, Author of '1421 The Year China Discovered The World'. 'Chinese World Maps: China and Globalisation 600 Years Ago'

9th November Will Hutton, Chief Executive, The Work Foundation. 'The Writing on the Wall: Will it be China's Century'.

4th May Tony Venables, Chief Economist, Department for International Development. 'Convergence and Divergence in the World Economy: The Role of Trade'

9th March Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times , 'Global Payments Imbalances: Will They End In Tears?'

 

2005

28th November John Martin, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, 'Compensating Trade-Displaced Workers: a Mountain or a Molehill?'

18th April Evan Davis, Economics Editor, BBC, on 'What do we do, when China makes everything?'

17th February Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times , on 'Why Globalisation Works'

2004

15th November Robert Anderton, Senior Economist, European Central Bank on 'The External Dimension of the Euro Area'

12th October David Smith, Economics Editor, The Sunday Times on 'Offshoring - Political Myths and Economic Reality'

19th February Martin Wolf (Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times ) on 'China's role in Globalisation'

 

2003

18th November Paul Collier, Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (formerly Director, Development Research Group, The World Bank) on 'Globalisation and Civil War'

20th October Adrian Wood (Chief Economist, Department for International Development) on 'Making Globalisation Work for the Poor'

30th April Martin Wolf (Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times ) on 'How Financial Integration Today Differs from that of a Century Ago'

17th March Todd Sandler (University of Southern California) on 'Collective Action and Transnational Terrorism'

2002

7th November Lord Peston (Chair of the House of Lords Enquiry into Globalisation) on 'Globalisation - Threat or Opportunity?'.

22nd April Sam Laird (Chief of Research, Division of Internatonal Trade, UNCTAD) on 'What does the WTO do for Developing Countries?' (Chief of Research, Division of Internatonal Trade, UNCTAD) on

25th February Martin Wolf (Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times ) on 'Is Globalisation Causing World Poverty?'