Events and Talks

Keynote speech at the Global Brain Economy Summit 2026 as part of the Science Summit at the United Nations General Assembly

Cognitive Taxation and Livelihood Precarity: An Agenda for the G20 Brain Economy

September 2026

Annual Lecture at Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

Dec 2025

Why arts and humanities matter more than ever: A conversation with Henrietta L. Moore and Christopher Smith, moderated by Anna Vigoles at EXPeditions

Opening remarks at 81st session of UN General Assembly side event with the School of International Futures, Building New Alignment: Intergenerational Innovations in Multilateral Governance

Opening remarks at the Prosperity 2030 Report launch

Reimagining mobility in the 21st century city at Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter

Human Geography Seminar Series at the London School of Economics

Sept 2026

Sept 2026

July 2026

In conversation with Henrietta L. Moore and Arthur Kay at the Museum of the Home, London

Keynote speech at Healthy City Design

Roadkill book talk at Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Feb 2026

Jan 2026

Driving for change, three-part lecture series at the London Transport Museum

Roadkill book talk at Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London

Nov 2025

Oct 2025

Roadkill book talk at Temple Bar London

Jan - March 2026

Oct 2025

Oct 2025

Oct 2025

Panel discussion at The Institute for Government’s Public Services Conference

Funding public services: what do spending plans mean for performance?

Nov 2024

Opening remarks and Chair

Universal Basic Services (UBS) Roundtable: Challenges, opportunities and future for UBS

Keynote speech at the Future of London’s Unlocking Social Value Conference

Opening remarks at launch of UCL Citizen Science Academy, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity

Opening remarks at Vital Lebanon Conference, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity

Uncertainty, Solidarity, Activism & Energetics

Keynote speech at Keele World Affairs, Keele University

Regenerative Agriculture: A Global Solution

Panel discussion at the Global Governance Institute, University College London

A Global Economy For People & Planet: ‘Green Growth’ Or ‘Post-Growth?’

Panel discussion at Global Solutions Summit at The World Policy Forum

Towards a new understanding of prosperity - measurement and reporting

Panel discussion at the Fields-OECD/NAEC Symposium with Rebuilding Macroeconomics

Which Normality?

Keynote lecture at Queen’s University Belfast

Beyond Coronavirus: How Does the World Recover?

Keynote speech at the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Global Grand Challenges Summit

Can we sustain 10 billion people?

Opening remarks at the SDGeneration: A Citizen Science Movement Conference

The Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University

What is prosperity for Africa?

Keynote speech at the Rebuilding Macroeconomics workshop on The Institutions of Globalisation

Acceptable vs Unacceptable Channels of Globalisation

Keynote speech at launch of the RELIEF Centre at the British Museum

ETHICOBOTS talk at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research

One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health

Speech at the Reimagine London conference at Southbank Centre

Oct 2024

The 19th Pembroke College William Pitt Seminar at University of Cambridge

Boomer or Bust? Addressing Intergenerational Conflict

Oct 2024

Keynote speech at the UCL Citizen Prosperity Index and Dashboard Launch

Oct 2024

Opening remarks and chair of discussion at UCL Institute for Global Prosperity

Prosperity in the 21st Century: How can we adapt our prosperity thinking for the 21st century?

Oct 2023

July 2023

March 2023

Panel discussion at the Clean Growth Leadership Network and Institute for Economics and Peace

Reflecting on a year of chaos, re-imagining the road ahead

Closing remarks at the Women in Macroeconomics Conference, Rebuilding Macroeconomics

Who is the 'Individual in Macroeconomics?

Dec 2021

Dec 2021

In conversation with Prof Sir Charles Godfray at University of Oxford

Rethinking planetary prosperity: are we measuring what we value?

Symposium opening remarks at Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London

The Politics of Decolonial Investigations and the Ethics of Solidarity

March 2024

June 2021

April 2021

March 2021

Feb 2023

August 2022

Feb 2019

Tedx Talk at the Connecting Through Time session, TEDxOxbridge

Encountering Others

Discussion of Dr. Justin Gest's Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Dec 2018

June 2018

April 2018

Dec 2017

Feb 2015

June 2013

June 2010

Sept 2019

May 2023

Feb 2023