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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

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    The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges
    The Minister for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, will join us to discuss how to address these challenges as well as seize new opportunities. The UK launched an international development Wh...
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    01:20:53
    Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet'
    Hannah Ritchie discusses her new book 'Not the end of the world' with Prof Charles Godfray. We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanis...
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    • 2 years ago
    01:00:20
    Human security versus national security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?
    Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, explores the implications of growing paralysis, polarisation and uncertainty for a world in a race against time to achieve systemic and transformational change. Con...
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    • 2 years ago
    01:14:05
    The United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities in the 21st Century: some challenges and opportunities
    Adama Dieng, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, July 2012 to July 2020, discusses the UN's role in the global collective responsib...
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    • 2 years ago
    01:11:54
    Time To Look Up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisis
    After a summer of extreme heatwaves, devastating wildfires and deadly flooding across the world, all made worse by climate change, the Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma, President of COP26 in Glasgow 2021, will ...
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    • 2 years ago
    49:33
    Can international humanitarian organisations adapt to face the challenges of this century?
    Yves Daccord, former CEO of the International Committee of the Red Cross, joins us at the Oxford Martin School. The history of humanitarianism is one of vulnerabilities, power, mobilisation and adapta...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:17:07
    Panel Discussion 'The age of the strongman: populism and authoritarianism in global politics'
    A discussion on leaders and populism with Lord Patten, Gideon Rachman, Margaret MacMillan and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Since the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:25:13
    The state of the African state: Where has it come from and where is it going
    Nick Westcott, Director of the Royal African Society, discusses the African State. African states have been in flux since long before colonial powers carved up the continent into bite-sized chunks at ...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:18:30
    Book talk: 'Butler to the world: how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals'
    In this event chaired by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Oliver Bullough discusses his best selling and critically acclaimed book, 'Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodg...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:14:51
    Illicit finance and the role of professional enablers in the United Kingdom: are things finally changing?
    MPs Andrew Mitchell and Margaret Hodge discuss illicit finance and their work on improving regulations. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting sanctions regime has shed light on the United Kingdom...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:29:14
    Book talk: 'Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning' with Claire Craig & Sarah Dillon
    Claire Craig and Sarah Dillon discuss their new book. There is an urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. The challenges of using scientific evidence, of disting...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:00:43
    Book Talk: 'Envisioning 2060: opportunities and risks for emerging markets'
    The event launched a book by the Emerging Markets Forum (EMF), a Washington DC based not-for-profit think tank focused on emerging economies. The book takes a long-term perspective of emerging market ...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:28:50
    P4 healthcare and precision population health - a transformation of healthcare
    Dr Leroy Hood, CEO of Phenome Health, discusses his strategy for precision population health If one takes a systems approach to healthcare, it is obvious that it should be predictive, preventive, pers...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:18:02
    Panel Discussion: "Fleshing out a future COP"
    Dr Tara Garnett (director of TABLE and fellow of the Oxford Martin School) in conversation with Dr Helena Wright, Dr Pablo Manzano and Dan Blaustein-Rejto, discuss livestock systems and greenhouse gas...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:14:32
    What would a sustainable economy look like?
    Sir Dieter Helm discusses how we could shift to a sustainable economy. What would have to happen for this generation to live within its environmental means and to bequeath to the next generation a set...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:02:05
    Britain's long-running 'skills crisis': why can't we fix it? and what would it take to do so?
    Alison Wolf, Ian Stuart and Sir Chris Husbands join Sir Paul Collier to discuss vocational skills and the economy. This country has been worrying about vocational skills since the late 19th century. S...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:35:10
    Panel discussion: 'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed?
    This discussion brings together the editors of a special issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy on Capitalism. Rising levels of inequality, social exclusion, environmental degradation and poli...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:28:41
    The political economy of Nigeria: challenges and opportunities for reform
    Join Professor Kingsley Moghalu, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow on the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as he discusses the chall...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:09:27
    Private financing levelling-up: an idea of its time
    Join Ron Emerson, Chairman of Bank North, & Professor Colin Mayer, Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Initiative on Regional Levelling-up, as they discuss the above and in what ways does Bank No...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:05:37
    Renewing South Yorkshire: seizing new opportunities, overcoming old constraints
    Dave Smith, Chief Executive of South Yorkshire City-Region Authority and Colin Mayer, Professor of Finance, discuss how South Yorkshire can forge a strategy for change. South Yorkshire, crucible of th...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:31:20
    "Conflict resolution for the future of biodiversity conservation" with Dr Alexandra Zimmermann
    Dr Alexandra Zimmermann, WildCRU, discusses the challenges of managing conflict between different groups in order to protect wildlife and natural resources The conservation of biodiversity and natural...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:02:28
    Book talk: 'Cogs and Monsters: what economics is and what it should be' with Prof Diane Coyle
    Diane Coyle and Ian Goldin discuss Diane's new book 'Cogs and Monsters' and how economics can face the challenges of technological change. Digital technology is disruptive, and it is not sparing econo...
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    • 4 years ago
    58:07
    Greed is dead: politics after individualism
    Economists Paul Collier and John Kay discuss their book, Greed is Dead, with Sir Charles Godfray Throughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and c...
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    • 5 years ago
    01:00:55
    Zero carbon energy systems
    Join Nick Eyre and Steve Smith for a discussion on a renewable energy, energy efficiency and carbon emissions. The combustion of fossil fuels is responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions, part...
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    • 5 years ago
    01:00:40
    Net zero – why and how?
    The first discussion in the Oxford Net Zero Series, hosted by the Oxford Martin School, hones in on the fundamental motivation of the research programme: ‘Why net zero? Join the Oxford Net Zero Initia...
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    • 5 years ago
    01:02:40
    Protein structure and AI: the excitement about the recent advance made by Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold Programme
    Why is it important to understand the 3-D structures of protein, why are they difficult to construct, and what is the nature of AlphaFold’s advance? Why is this so exciting and what further advances i...
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    • 5 years ago
    01:01:00
    Data work: the hidden talent and secret logic fuelling artificial intelligence
    Professor Gina Neff discusses artificial intelligence and data work, and the ethical and social implications of integrating these tools into organisations. What happens when new artificial intelligenc...
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    • 5 years ago
    47:31
    Rethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemic
    Prof Susan Jebb and Sir Charles Godfray discuss the possible implications of the pandemic on health policy and tackling obesity. The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability...
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    • 5 years ago
    59:43
    Healthcare after the COVID-19 pandemic: the walls are coming down
    Join Professor Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine and Professor Sir Charles Godfray as they discuss how the healthcare system has had to adapt due to the Covid-19 pandemic and what this...
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    • 5 years ago
    59:14
    The ages of globalization
    Professor Jeff Sachs discusses his new book 'The Ages of Globalization' with Professor Ian Goldin. We are justified to say that we are living through a new age of globalisation, which Professor Jeff S...
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    • 5 years ago
    58:04
    21st century technologies for tackling 21st century pandemics
    Christophe Fraser of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, who advises the UK’s NHS COVID-19 Tracing app, and Prof Oliver Pybus discuss the opportunities and challenges of successfully applying new technologie...
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    • 5 years ago
    01:03:58
    Re-imagining urban mobility after COVID-19
    The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented disruptions to urban mobility systems across the globe yet also presented unique opportunities for people to drive less, walk/cycle more and reduce ...
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    • 5 years ago
    59:43
    Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years
    Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University, discusses his new book 'Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years' Expert in globalisation and deve...
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    • 5 years ago
    59:23
    A tale of two crises: COVID-19 and the financial system
    Dr Julia Giese, Bank of England, discusses the impact of Covid-19 on the financial system and how banks can play their part in economic recovery. Date 14 October 2020, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location O...
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    • 5 years ago
    56:16
    Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Professor Sarah Smith, Professor Almudena Sevilla and Professor Cameron Hepburn discuss the gender division of childcare during the covid-19 pandemic, and the impact of this on welfare and employment....
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    • 5 years ago
    57:01
    Privacy is Power
    Carissa Véliz discusses her new book 'Privacy is Power', focusing on the importance of understanding how our data is used and how we can protect our privacy. Have you ever been denied insurance, a loa...
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    • 5 years ago
    57:48
    Resetting our relationship with nature in a post-COVID world
    Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland and Professor Sir Charles Godfray discuss our relationship with nature, how it relates to the Covid-19 pandemic, and what we need to do differently in the future. The COV...
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    • 5 years ago
    59:18
    Supply and demand shocks in the COVID-19 pandemic: an industry and occupation perspective
    In this recorded talk, Professor Doyne Farmer and Maria del Rio-Chanona talk about their new paper on supply and demand shocks, and the impacts on society, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic The COV...
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    • 5 years ago
    58:49
    After the lockdown: macroeconomic adjustment to the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
    In this talk, Professor Chris Adam, Professor of Development Economics looks beyond the public health aspects of the pandemic to examine the medium-term macroeconomic adjustment challenge confronting ...
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    • 5 years ago
    01:02:57
    Global macroeconomic cooperation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
    Professor David Vines, Professor of Economics at INET Oxford, discusses the need for international cooperation to support emerging economies after the covid-19 crisis. The Covid crisis has caused the ...
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    • 5 years ago
    56:30
    Globalisation in the post-COVID world
    Professor Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, discusses the recent developments in international trade and the link between trade finance and resil...
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    • 5 years ago
    55:32
    Lie machines: misinformation in a Post-COVID world
    Phil Howard, author of Lie Machines and Nicola Aitken, Policy Manager at Full Fact, discuss the implications of fake news and misinformation. In the age of COVID-19, the lie machine is working to unde...
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    • 5 years ago
    55:47
    Recipes for transforming food production and beyond
    Paul Clarke, Ocado's Chief Technology Officer, will focus on the disruptive ingredients and recipes at the heart of Ocado's ongoing journey of self-disruption and reinvention....
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    • 5 years ago
    58:09
    What is life?
    For this year's James Martin Memorial Lecture, Sir Paul Nurse will consider some of the fundamental ideas of biology with the aim of identifying principles that define living organisms....
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    • 5 years ago
    01:26:05
    Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare
    William bird discusses how healthcare focused on communities and acitve lifestyles can lead to greater wellbeing. We are entering the fourth revolution of healthcare. The first revolution was Publi...
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    • 6 years ago
    01:14:59
    Psychologically informed micro-targeted political campaigns: the use and abuse of data
    Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a key part of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and whether it is rel...
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    • 6 years ago
    01:05:42
    The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation
    Carl Frey discusses his book 'The Technology Trap' In this book talk the Author, Carl Benedikt Frey, will discuss how the Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but how few grasped it...
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    • 6 years ago
    56:56
    Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present
    Robin Cohen discusses migration throughout history and in the present day. Migration is present at the dawn of human history - the phenomena of hunting and gathering, seeking seasonal pasture and noma...
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    • 6 years ago
    57:45
    Ending energy poverty: reframing the poverty discourse
    The President of the Rockefeller Foundation discusses the need for new solutions for energy transformation and economic development. We cannot end poverty without ending energy poverty. Ever since the...
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    • 6 years ago
    01:12:01
    New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene
    Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and ...
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    • 6 years ago
    01:03:56
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