100 days to kickstart Britain: what should the new government's priorities be? | LSE Festival

The UK’s economy has waned in recent years - low growth and productivity have been coupled with rising inflation and poverty. In this event Richard Davies will be joined by Ricardo Hausmann, head of the Harvard Growth lab and a panel of senior journalists and policymakers to discuss how Britain’s economic model can be re-built to kickstart productivity and tackle the country’s challenges. 

Meet our speakers and chair

Ricardo Hausmann is the founder and Director of Harvard’s Growth Lab and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. Before joining Harvard University, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (1994-2000), Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993) and as a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. 

Richard Davies (@RD_Economist) is an economist and author. He is Professor in Practice at the LSE School of Public Policy and he currently teaches at the University of Chicago. He is the founding director of the UK's Economics Observatory, holds a chair as the Professor of the Public Understanding of Economics at Bristol University and is a visiting Professor at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance. Before academia he worked in policy and journalism: he has been Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers at HM Treasury, an economist and speechwriter at the Bank of England, and economics editor of The Economist.

More about this event

This event is part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics running from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 2024, with a series of events exploring how power and politics shape our world. Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 13 May.  

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