{"title": "In conversation with Sri Mulyani Indrawati", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "This year's SPP Annual Lecture is an in-person and online public conversation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It features Sri Mulyani Indrawati, former Minister of Finance of Indonesia, in conversation with Professor Andrés Velasco, and is chaired by Professor Tony Travers CBE. The discussion draws on her extensive experience in public policy and economic leadership, including strengthening Indonesia's economic stability, sustaining growth, creating employment, and reducing poverty and inequality. 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The chair is Professor Carmen Nuzzo of the TPI Centre, with speakers including Marjan Divjak of Slovenia's Ministry of Finance, Jana Harvey of RBC BlueBay, Maya Hennerkes of the EBRD and Setenay Hizliok of the TPI Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/state-of-the-sovereign-transition-2026-from-national-targets-63367/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/sovereign-transition", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf12df2256ca374a678f8e339f440b3f1b2ddebfb4b0a9d8ef0916f6b7aaad7d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The harms of extreme wealth: launching the evidence review", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/inequality"], "description": "A public talk asking how much wealth is too much and whether trillionaires should be able to exist. It launches a new Evidence Review on the Harms of Extreme Wealth, examining what research in political science, economics and sociology says about how extreme wealth causes harm and whether it points to tipping points for an extreme wealth line. It is hosted by the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with speakers including Tania Burchardt, Sunil Kapur and Catherine West, chaired by Francisco H. G. 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Peter Hall presents his new book \"Governing Growth\", tracing interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years. He identifies three postwar growth regimes - modernization, liberalisation and knowledge-based growth - each paired with a distinctive regime of political representation, with discussants Sara Hobolt and David Soskice and chair Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. The event is hosted by the Department of Government, takes place in the Malaysia Auditorium in the Centre Building, and is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/governing-growth-the-postwar-transformations-of-capitalism-a-63365/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/governing-growth", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20dac47debd37308b826eec6afd967f4d52cd91b166a045cd08efb5c581c5707-2000.webp"}, {"title": "IGHI Special Lecture 2026: Global Challenges, Human Solutions", "start": "2026-11-11T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/humanitarian"], "description": "A special lecture hosted in person and online, open to all with advance registration. 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