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Dealing with climate change will require innovation and diffusion of new technologies. But how can we craft policies to best deliver this?

Daniel Pink discusses the true value in understanding regret and using it to our advantage.

Capitalism and free markets have lifted billions out of poverty across the globe. But it is also blamed for widening the gap between rich and poor - with increasing numbers of people feeling left behind.

This event marks the launch of the Grantham Research Institute’s 2022 Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation Policy Report.

Join Grace Lordan in her conversation with Ann Olivarius as they look back on the progress that women have made over the last 50 years.

LSE Visiting Senior Fellow Valeria Gontareva, who is the former Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, discusses Ukraine's wartime economy and the financial challenges it faces.

To mark the Bank of Ghana’s 65th anniversary, panellists address previous and emerging challenges for central banking in West Africa.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing forms of structural racism and inequality, and generated new social divides.

Is the United Nations still able to perform its intended role as forum for global deliberation, negotiation, and policymaking?

The uprooting of refugees from Ukraine reflects the latest phase in the ongoing and intensified age of forced migration.

The toppling of Bristol's Edward Colston statue in 2020 reminded the media that our colonial history and how it is taught, talked about and represented has an impact.

A better world is possible; the solutions are out there. We can all make a difference. We just need to know where to look - and have the courage to think big.

To be sentient is to have positive or negative experiences, such as experiences of pain, pleasure, comfort, warmth, hunger, anxiety or joy. Humans are sentient, but are we alone?

Recent decades have seen spiralling fortunes of the super-rich across the globe, and the UK is a major hub for high earners.

At this special event, LSE Director Minouche Shafik hosts a conversation with Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank and LSE alumnus Dr José Viñals, Group Chairman of Standard Chartered.

How can people move on from conflict and trauma, and overcome seemingly unbridgeable divides or intractable circumstances?

The pandemic’s impact on global trade has significantly harmed Africa’s economies and development. Could historic changes to the way African trade operates drive its recovery?

The pandemic has highlighted long-known vulnerabilities of the social care sector and amplified the urgency for reforming its funding system.

An unprecedented amount of financial support has been granted by national authorities to companies to alleviate the economic effects of COVID-19.

Fiona Hill and Kristina Spohr discuss Russia, America, and the Future of European Security.

The time has come to rethink how we design, make, and use the things we need, from the food we eat to the clothes we wear.

This session identifies and explores the changing legal landscape for Data Law.

In a world increasingly divided into those who defend and those who attack democratic systems, there is widespread consensus that democracy as a political system is under serious threat.

How can we create social impact? How can we identify a social problem where we can make a difference? How can we mobilise resources to create social change? And how do we define and measure that social change?

While jobs are being destroyed, created and transformed, the fundamental issue is that there are not enough well-paying jobs to go around and not enough clear pathways leading to them.