• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
• Timing: See individual lectures for details
• Web Address: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/
• Organising department: Oxford Martin School

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Tackling the illegal wildlife trade from China's epicentre
  Tien Ming Lee (Sun Yat-sen University)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Why do we spend so little on preventing ill-health and so much on treating it?
  Professor Chris Dye (Visiting Professor, Oxford)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work
  Professor Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute, Geneva)

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Chilling prospects: how to provide cooling for all without blowing the world’s carbon budget
  Dan Hamza-Goodacre (Executive Director, Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Global maps of the spread of infectious diseases and their vectors
  Dr Moritz Kraemer (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - The ethics of vaccination: individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities
  Dr Alberto Giubilini (Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease)

Wednesday 24 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Africa in transformation: economic development in the age of doubt
  Professor Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town)

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - From global to local - the relationship between global climate and regional warming
  David Battisti (University of Washington)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - City region food systems: potential for impacting planetary boundaries and food security
  Dr Mike Hamm (Michigan State University)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Unlocking digital competition
  Prof Jason Furman (Harvard Kennedy School)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Protecting the high seas (Oxford Green Week Talk)
  Prof Alex Rogers, Dr Gwilym Rowlands (Oxford Martin School)

Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From pollution to solution: will China save the planet?
  Barbara Finamore (Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC))

Thursday 5 September 2019 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Clouds and climate
  Prof Tapio Schneider (Caltech)

Monday 7 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Ending energy poverty: reframing the poverty discourse
  Dr Rajiv J. Shah (President, The Rockefeller Foundation)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation
  Dr Carl Benedikt Frey (University of Oxford)

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Psychologically informed micro-targeted political campaigns: the use and abuse of data
  Dr Jens Koed Madsen (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Cartographic attributes of the invisible – the geographies of the platform economy
  Prof Mark Graham (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare
  Dr William Bird (Intelligent Health)

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Nano comes to life: how nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology
  Prof Sonia Contera (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A world without work: technology, automation and how we should respond
  Dr Daniel Susskind (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Pyrrhic progress: the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production
  Dr Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford Martin School)

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health
  Prof Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - "Income insecurity in the 21st Century" with special guest speaker Andy Haldane (Joint Event with DSPI and INET)
  Andy Haldane (Bank Of England), Jane Millar (University of Bath), Matteo Richiardi (University of Essex), Professor Brian Nolan (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - What is Life? (James Martin Memorial Lecture)
  Sir Paul Nurse, FRS (Director, The Francis Crick Institute)

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Panel discussion: Africa, capital flight and the bankers who help: evidence from the FinCEN files
  William Fitzgibbon (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), Agustin Armendariz (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), Taiwo Hassan Adebayo (Premium Times Nigeria), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Monday 23 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Data work: the hidden talent and secret logic fuelling artificial intelligence
  Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford), Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change)

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - The Great Health Dilemma: Is Prevention Better than Cure?
  Professor Chris Dye (Professor of Epidemiology, University of Oxford), Professor Salim Abdool Karim (Director, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA))

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Ian Goldin: "Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World" chaired by Nik Gowing
  Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change), Nik Gowing (Founder, Thinking the Unthinkable)

Tuesday 6 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Book Launch: Anne Schwenkenbecher: 'Getting our act together: collective moral obligations'
  Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch University), Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease)

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Online panel discussion: "National ‘fair shares’ in GHG mitigation, international environmental law & climate litigation"
  Professor Dr Niklas Höhne (Founding Partner, NewClimate Institute), Dr Louise Jeffery (Climate Policy Analyst, NewClimate Institute), Gerry Liston (Legal Officer, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)), Lucy Maxwell (Senior Legal Associate, Climate Litigation Network), Professor Lavanya Rajamani (Faculty of Law)

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: "What does the future hold for cities, climate change and migration"
  In-person attendance is fully booked, but you can watch online via Crowdcast or Youtube
  Prof Susan Parnell (PEAK Urban), Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford ), Prof Kazem Rahimi (University of Oxford), Prof Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book talk: Cogs and Monsters: what economics is and what it should be' with Prof Diane Coyle (Online)
  Prof Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge), Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change)

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - "Conflict resolution for the future of biodiversity conservation" with Dr Alexandra Zimmermann
  Dr Alexandra Zimmerman (Senior Research Fellow, WildCRU), Prof David Macdonald (Director, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU))

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The political economy of Nigeria: challenges and opportunities for reform
  Professor Kingsley Moghalu (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin School)

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:45 - Book talk: "Exponential: how accelerating technology is leaving us behind and what to do about it" with Azeem Azhar
  Azeem Azhar (Exponential View), Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change)

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - POSTPONED - Economic reforms in Angola: the Government’s perspective (Online Only)
  Please note this talk has been postponed due to speaker illness. We hope to announce a new date soon.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Vera Daves de Sousa (Minister of Finance, Angola), José de Lima Massano (Governor, National Bank of Angola), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Wednesday 23 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Getting to a fusion pilot plant: a perspective from the US
  Professor Steve Cowley (Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL))

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: 'Financial and economic crime in the Global South'
  Dr Folashade Adeyemo (Assistant Professor in Law, University of Reading), Dr Nkechi Azinge-Egbiri (Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Lincoln), Dr Joy Malala (Assistant Professor, University of Warwick), Luckystar Miyandazi (Coordinator, Tax Inspectors Without Borders, UNDP), Dr Lovina Otudor (The Global South Dialogue on Economic and Financial Crime), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: 'If you want to change the world, change your approach - lessons from the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Epilepsy'
  Prof Tim Denison (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Global Epilepsy), Dr Prince Kazadi (Director, ASLEK Epilepsy in Democratic Republic of Congo), Dr Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford), Gift Ngwende (Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe), Dr Mayela Zamora (Senior Researcher, Institute of Biomedical Engineering), Professor Kevin Marsh (Professor of Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine), Professor Arjune Sen (Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group)

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Biodiversity & food: challenges and opportunities to “win more and lose less"
  Professor Tom Tomich (Founder, Food Systems Lab, University of California, Davis), Professor Yadvinder Malhi (ECI, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Catastrophes of the 21st Century
  This event is fully booked
  Professor Roger Pielke, Jr (Professor in the Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado Boulder)

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The state of the African state: Where has it come from and where is it going?
  Nick Westcott (Director, Royal African Society)

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel Discussion 'The age of the strongman: populism and authoritarianism in global politics'
  In-person attendance is fully booked. Online attendance available.
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Gideon Rachman (Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Drop-in fuels from sunlight and air
  Professor Aldo Steinfeld (ETH Zurich)

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - 'A new global treaty on plastic pollution – updates from the front line'
  Andy Raine (Senior Legal Officer & Head of the International Environmental Law Unit in the Law Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP))

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - 'Childhood vaccine mandates: are they tackling the right problem?'
  Associate Professor Katie Atwell (Visiting Researcher, Vaccines and Society Unit, University of Oxford)

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond personalised and toward circuit-customised medicine: targeting molecular "address codes" for diverse functional neuron subtypes in the brain (Stanley Ho Memorial Lecture)
  Professor Jeffrey D. Macklis (Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University)

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book talk 'Cloud empires: how digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control'
  In-person attendance is fully booked but online attendance is still available
  Professor Vili Lehdonvirta (Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Preventing pandemics at the source – stopping spillover
  Professor Peter Hudson (Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on the Wildlife Trade)

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: 'Sustainable food: creating a food system for healthy people and planet'
  Dr Sasha Gennet (Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow & Fellow, The Nature Conservancy), Dr Joseph Poore (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Food Sustainability Analytics), Dr Michael Clark (Senior Researcher of Sustainable Food Solutions, University of Oxford), Dr Tara Garnett (Director, TABLE)

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Inequalities: which ones matter, and what to do about them?
  In-person attendance fully booked
  Professor Paul Johnson (Director, The Institute for Fiscal Studies)

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Can international humanitarian organisations adapt to face the challenges of this century?
  Yves Daccord (Former CEO of the International Committee of the Red Cross)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sharing the benefits from the global commons: deep-seabed mining
  Professor Dale Squires (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade)

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Technological change, the future of jobs and development
  In-person attendance fully booked
  Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - 'Remote work across jobs, companies, and space' with Dr Bledi Taska
  Dr Bledi Taska (Lightcast)

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Talk: 'Ravenous: how to get ourselves and our planet into shape'
  In-person attendance fully booked
  Henry Dimbleby (Lead Non-Executive Board Member, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Technology and the future of work
  Jacky Wright (McKinsey & Co)

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - The Cattle-Grain-Beef Complex: Maize, feedlots, and British breeds in the rise of the modern food system
  Dr Nathan Sayre (Professor of Geography, University of California-Berkeley)

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - More productive future-proofed crops via manipulation of photosynthesis to address global food security in 2050
  Dr Steve Long (Ikenberry University Chair of Plant Biology, University of Illinois)

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Grimsby & Blackpool- how community power is helping them with levelling up
  Baroness Valentine of Putney (Special Projects Director, Business in the Community), Jason Stockwood (53 Degrees Capital), Billy Dasein (East Marsh United), Josie Moon (East Marsh United), Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - China's Deepfake Regulations: navigating security, misinformation and innovation
  Professor Mimi Zou (University of Exeter)

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: 'Kleptocracy and The Financial Action Task Force'
  Oliver Bullough (Author and Journalist), Dame Margaret Hodge (MP for Barking and Dagenham), Dr Susan Hawley (Spotlight on Corruption), Professor Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge), Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Risk, security and democracy: A public conversation
  Professor Charles Vincent (University of Oxford), Greta Krippner (University of Michigan), Émile P. Torres (Leibniz University Hannover), Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen), Dr Suzanne Schneider (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research), Professor Andrew Stirling (University of Sussex)

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: 'Uncovering the offshore world: how researchers investigate shell companies, international wealth managers and transnational informal economies'
  Prof Brooke Harrington (Dartmouth College), Prof Kimberly Hoang (University of Chicago), Prof Kristin Surak (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book talk: 'Age of the City: why our future will be won or lost together'
  Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development)

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Adama Dieng & Prof Andrew Thompson in conversation: 'The United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities in the 21st Century: some challenges and opportunities'
  Adama Dieng (Former UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide), Professor Andrew Thompson (Oxford)

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Anthropocene opportunities: unleashing humanity's shared aspirations
  Erle Ellis (University of Maryland)

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - James Martin Memorial lecture: 'Time to look up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisis'
  Right Honourable Sir Alok Sharma (MP & President for COP26), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The future of global development and implications for Aid
  Charles Kenny (Center for Global Development)

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'How can we build the sustainable economy?' with Dieter Helm & Dimitri Zenghelis
  In-person attendance fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Professor Sir Dieter Helm (University of Oxford), Dimitri Zenghelis (Grantham Institute on Climate Change, LSE)

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Human security versus national security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?
  Achim Steiner (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)), Baroness Valerie Amos (University College, University of Oxford)

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Medicine in the 4th Industrial Revolution
  Professor Andrew Morris (Director, Health Data Research UK)

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Health misinformation: the barriers to its recognition by information consumers and the limits to the concept of medical “truth"
  Dr Olessia Koltsova (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science & Media)

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Book talk: 'The power of platforms: shaping media and society'
  Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media)

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Is conservation working?
  Julia Jones (Professor in conservation science, Bangor University)

Tuesday 16 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Panel discussion: 'Post-COP28 debrief: Does the agreement go far enough?'
  In-person registration now fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Professor Benito Müller (Oxford Climate Policy), Professor Myles Allen (Environmental Change Institute, University Of Oxford), Dr Abrar Chaudhury (Said Business School), Dr Nicola Ranger (Executive Director, Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Programme), Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The science and policy of wellbeing
  In-person attendance now fully booked. Online attendance still open.
  Professor Lord Layard (Co-Director, Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance), Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (Saïd Business School)

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Agent-based modelling in public health: from playground to planet
  Professor Joshua M. Epstein (New York University)

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The inequality of wealth
  In-person attendance now fully booked. Online attendance still open.
  Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne MP (Chair, House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee), Professor Brian Nolan (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School), Professor Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Why governments need scientists
  In-person attendance now fully booked. Online attendance still open.
  Sir Patrick Vallance (Former Government Chief Scientific Adviser (2018-2023))

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED Panel discussion: 'Saving the oceans from the sky'
  This event has been cancelled
  Professor David Freestone (Sargasso Sea Commission), Dr Efthymios (Akis) Papastavridis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens), Professor Catherine Redgewell (University of Oxford), Dr Gwilym Rowlands (Department of Biology)

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet'
  In-person attendance fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Dr Hannah Ritchie (Head of Research, Our World in Data), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Panel Discussion: 'The great carbon market debate: is it over for offsetting?'
  In-person attendance fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford), Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Sabine Frank (Carbon Market Watch), Lydia Sheldrake (Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI)), Kaya Axelsson (Oxford Net Zero)

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges
  In-person attendance fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Andrew Mitchell (Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)), Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Navigating world orders over five millennia: does the past offer clues to the future?
  Professor Amitav Acharya (UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance)

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Past, present, and future of economic growth: how we should rethink it
  In-person attendance is now fully booked. Online attendance still available.
  Dr Daniel Susskind (University of Oxford), Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change)

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - The Dr Stanley Ho Memorial Lecture: 'Revisiting genetic determinism: evidence from large population cohorts'
  Professor Caroline Wright (University of Exeter)

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - 'Eating to conserve: harnessing seafood sustainability to save threatened sharks' with Dr Divya Karnad
  Dr Divya Karnad (Ashoka University)

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Making sense of chaos: a better economics for a better world
  Professor Doyne Farmer (INET Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Historical research in the time of the Anthropocene: can climate data help us read the past (and, if so, how)?
  Nicola di Cosmo (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton)

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Redesigning AI
  Fully booked
  Professor Daron Acemoğlu (MIT), Professor Isabelle Ferreras (University of Louvain), Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford), Dr Daniel Susskind (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - (Global) value chains in a changing world: challenges and opportunities
  Dr Glenn Magerman (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB))

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Why hydrogen is of strategic importance to scale-up the energy transition
  Dr Dirk Smit (Corporate Chief Scientist, Shell)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Migration: past, present and future
  Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development)

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The role of a global multilateral development bank in the world today
  Dr Samuel Munzele Maimbo (World Bank)

Wednesday 10 July 2024 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - 'Communicating climate change - messages, messengers, and mechanisms' with Karen Florini (Online only)
  Karen Florini (Climate Central)

Tuesday 10 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:45 - Panel Discussion: ‘Climate overshoot: devastating risks and possible responses’
  This event is now fully booked
  Kim Campbell (Climate Overshoot Commission), Pascal Lamy (Climate Overshoot Commission), Dr Michael Obersteiner (Environmental Change Institute), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book talk: 'The Universal History of Us' with Tim Coulson in conversation with Charles Godfray
  In-person attendance is now fully booked, but online attendance is still available
  Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Biology), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - 'Getting ready for the Anthropocene: overcoming obstacles on the development path for municipal water and sanitation services' with Prof Dale Whittington
  Dale Whittington (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill)

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Panel discussion: 'Operationalising climate policy for global net zero emissions'
  Professor David Karoly (School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne), Dr Thom Wetzer (Associate Professor of Law and Finance and Founding Director, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme), Injy Johnstone (Research Associate in Net Zero Aligned Offsetting, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Kate Cook (Matrix Chambers)
• 17:00 - Factors affecting quality of life in adults with epilepsy: insights from South Africa
  Nwabisa Mlandu (Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town)

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book talk: 'Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World' with Guru Madhavan (Online only)
  Please note this event is now online only.
  Guru Madhavan (US National Academy of Engineering), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Crafting a new global order? The United Nations and international politics in the 1990s
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book talk: 'As If Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence' - Nigel Shadbolt in conversation with Charles Godfray
  Fully Booked
  Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Chinese global messaging campaigns on Western social media platforms
  Dr Naima Green-Riley (Princeton University)

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'How innovation in the private sector can help address major 21st century challenges' Warren East in conversation with Charles Godfray
  Warren East (Executive in Residence, Saïd Business School & former CEO Rolls-Royce & ARM), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fighting misinformation on social media: the role of economic research
  Professor Sergei Guriev (Dean, London Business School)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - ‘Cities rethought’: a book launch and lunchtime discussion
  Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Professor Sue Parnell (University of Bristol), Professor Edgar Pieterse (University of Cape Town), Professor Gillian Rose (School of Geography and the Environment), Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford ), Professor Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Towards a liveable planet: land, energy and food system transitions
  Professor Paul Behrens (British Academy Global Professor)