Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Imperative of a Global Climate Deal
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christiana Figueres (Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) )
  ONE

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - 'The End of Leadership?' - Prof. Karthik Ramanna
  Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - 'Respect and Discrimination' - Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Aarhus University
  Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - 'Public Anger, Business Power, and the Regulation of Finance in the UK and the US' - Prof. Pepper Culpepper
  Prof. Pepper Culpepper (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - 'The Power to Protect: Bargaining Power and Female Condom Use in Mozambique' - Dr Karlijn Morsink
  Karlijn Morsink (Blavatnik School of Government/Economics)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - 'Global Informality' - Prof. Alena Ledeneva, UCL
  Prof. Alena Ledeneva (University College London)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - 'From Clientelism to Corruption' - Prof. Simona Piattoni, University of Trento
  Prof Simona Piattoni (University of Trento)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - 'Explaining the Emergence of Democratic Competition: Lessons from India' - Dr Maya Tudor
  Maya Tudor (BSG, Oxford)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - 'Corruption in Public Administration: An Anthropological Perspective' - Prof. Davide Torsello, Central European University
  Prof. Davide Torsello (Central European University)
  Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: 'Serendipities of Acquired Immunity', Dr Tasuku Honjo
  TBA
• 09:30 - Public Lecture with Dr Tasuku Honjo: Serendipities of Acquired Immunity
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 11:30 - Public Lecture with Dr Martha Craven Nussbaum: Ageing and Stigma
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 11:30 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: Ageing, Stigma, and Disgust - Dr Martha Nussbaum
  TBA
• 14:30 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: Fun Research in Computer Vision and Robotics: Think like an Amateur, Do as an Expert - Dr Takeo Kanade
  TBA
• 14:30 - Public Lecture with Dr Takeo Kanade: Think like an Amateur, Do as an Expert: Fun Research in Computer Vision and Robotics
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - 'Networks and Know-How: Delivering Universal Coverage in Thailand'
  Ilan Nam (Colgate)

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Toward a Theory of Social Institutions
  Please note that the venue for this talk has been changed - it will now be held in the Clay Room, Nuffield College
  Ellen Lust (University of Gothenburg)
  Democracy and Difference Seminar Series

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Colonial Approaches to Governance in the Periphery
  Adria Lawrence (Yale)
  Democracy and Difference Seminar Series

Friday 9 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Does deterrence work in cyberspace?
  Professor Joseph Nye

Monday 19 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:30 - Challenges of Government Conference 2017: Bridging the Gap
  Various Speakers

Friday 14 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Yascha Mounk on democracy at risk
  Yascha Mounk (Harvard University)

Wednesday 13 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Challenges of Governance in Africa
  HE President Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe ( Former President of South Africa), Dr Khulu Mbatha (African National Congress)

Tuesday 26 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Why financialized corporate governance has failed us, why banks own the place, and what we can do about it
  Professor Anat Admati (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - How can auditing reduce public sector corruption?: The case of Brazil’s municipality-facing auditing programme
  Sérgio Seabra (Comptroller General of Brazil )

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Aspects of Conservatism: Maurice Glasman - The Beauty of Conservatism
  Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (London Metropolitan University)
  Aspects of Conservatism

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The consequences of Germany's federal elections
  Alexandra Borchardt (University of Oxford), Felix Krawatzek, Alexandra Zeitz (University of Oxford ), Bill Emmott (Author and adviser)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Book Launch: When They Go Low, We Go High
  Philip Collins (The Times), Chris Deerin (Political columnist and journalist)

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Asia-Pacific security in the time of Trump
  Hon Richard Marles MP (Australian Labor Party)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Aspects of Conservatism: Paul Faulkner - Trust in Government
  Please note the change of room - the event will now be held in Seminar Room 2, Blavatnik School of Government
  Paul Faulkner (University of Sheffield)
  Aspects of Conservatism

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Book Launch: The Future of War: A History
  Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman (King's College London), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Book Event: Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
  Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary), Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Aspects of Conservatism: Danny Kruger - The Country We Want to Be
  Danny Kruger (Legatum Institute)
  Aspects of Conservatism

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Does transparency work?
  Paolo de Renzio (International Budget Partnership)

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
  Graham Allison (Harvard Kennedy School)

Tuesday 5 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The art of listening
  John Studzinski (Blackstone), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Monday 8 January 2018 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Leadership in the African context: How to drive transformational change in African countries
  Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (Former President of Nigeria)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The judiciary as a check on executive power: an uncertain future
  Judge Jed Rakoff (Columbia Law School), Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The place of country branding in public policy: a case study of Singapore
  Koh Buck Song (Writer and branding consultant)

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - How did President Macron build a new political party? And will it last?
  Guillaume Liegey (Liegey Muller Pons), The Rt Hon. the Lord Adonis (Labour Party), Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The role of international organisations in making peace
  Alexander Hug (OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine)

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - What future for philanthropy in an era of ‘perma-crisis’?
  Sotiris Laganopoulos (Bodossaki Foundation ), Dr Jennifer Clarke (Bodossaki Foundation)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Can we build socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable societies?
  Zlatko Lagumdzija (Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001- 2002)), Wim Kok (Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands)

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The United States as the world's largest jailer
  Chief Judge Patti Saris (U. S. District Court, District of Massachusetts)

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - India’s leadership role in the world
  P. Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid
• 17:45 - Aid paradoxes in Afghanistan
  Dr Nemat Bizhan (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Marketcraft: how governments make markets work
  Professor Steven K. Vogel (University of California)

Wednesday 28 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - #AidToo: politics, power and safeguarding in international aid
  Helen Evans (Oxfordshire City Council), Shaista Aziz (Journalist and writer)

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Implementation as 'a long voyage of discovery': rethinking strategies for building state capability
  Michael Woolcock (World Bank's Development Research Group; Harvard University)

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Promoting good governance through digital tools
  Dr Mihály Fazekas (University of Cambridge)

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Can we make accountable societies? Lessons from the Dutch Golden Age and the invention of sustainable finance
  Professor Jacob Soll (University of Southern California)

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Adventures across disciplines: studying biophysics, and observing the shaping of policies
  Please take your seats by 9.20am as the lecture will be preceded by a welcome by Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
  Dr Graham Farquhar (Kyoto Prize 2017 Laureate for Basic Sciences)
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 11:45 - My fifty years with the transistor
  Dr Takashi Mimura (2017 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Advanced Technology)
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 15:00 - How to win a Stalin Prize: Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet
  Dr Richard Taruskin (2017 Laureate for Arts and Philosophy)
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Navigation by judgment: why and when top down management of foreign aid doesn’t work
  Dan Honig (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Getting rules into policymakers’ hands: a review of rules-based macro policy
  Mario Marcel Cullell (Central Bank of Chile)

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Rule of law, the promotion of sustainable development and Ghana's experience: a view from the bench
  Justice Georgina T. Wood (Former Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana)

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:45 - Running a think tank in the 21st century
  Dr Travers McLeod (Centre for Policy Development)
• 17:00 - The Korean missile crisis: avoiding the cliffs at the edge of the summit
  Scott Sagan (Stanford University)

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Heading for a global trade war? The US, China and the future of the global trading system
  Various Speakers

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:30 - Technology and Public Policy Conference
  Various Speakers

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Zeinab Badawi and Ngaire Woods in conversation
  Zeinab Badawi (BBC), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Negotiating with North Korea
  Various Speakers

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Creating Wakanda: Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship Across Africa
  Strive Masiyiwa (Econet Wireless), Atherton Mutombwera (Hutano Diagnostics Ltd), Jessica Price (Rhodes Incubator)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Britain at sea: how can we salvage foreign policy?
  Lord Malloch-Brown

Friday 15 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - In conversation with Professor Joseph Nye and Fadi Chehadé
  Professor Joseph Nye, Fadi Chehadé

Friday 28 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:15 - The Trump administration and international law
  Professor Harold Koh (Yale Law School)

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems: Findings and Implications
  Prof Margaret Kruk (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Palaces for the people: How to build a more equal and unified society
  Eric Klinenberg (New York University)

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Book launch with Paul Collier: The Future of Capitalism
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Bringing Behavioral Science into Global Public Policy
  Renos Vakis (World Bank)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - Challenges and opportunities in Somalia: Insights from the Minister of Finance
  Dr Abdirahman Dualeh Beileh (Ministry of Finance, Federal Republic of Somalia)
• 17:00 - Current challenges in protecting civilians in armed conflict
  Professor Jennifer Welsh (European University Institute), Professor Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Brazil: How did we get to here?
  Various Speakers

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Challenges of Government Conference 2018: The Future of Government
  Various Speakers

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Book launch with Martha Nussbaum: The Monarchy of Fear
  Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago), Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Keeping the faith in an uncertain world: Scotland's National Performance Framework
  Leslie Evans (Scottish Government)

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The China-US rivalry and its consequences for Asia and the world
  Please note that the start time is now 17.00 (not 17.15 as originally advertised)
  Professor Kishore Mahbubani (National University of Singapore)

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

• 14:00 - Sir Chris Wormald: Reflections of the Fellowship
  Sir Chris Wormald (UK Government)

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The value of everything: rediscovering purpose in the economy
  Mariana Mazzucato (University College London)

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

• 17:30 - Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline
  Dr Oliver Johnson (King's College London ), Dr Sinead Walsh (EU Ambassador to South Sudan )

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - His Excellency Dr Omar Al-Razzaz in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  His Excellency Dr Omar Al-Razzaz (Prime Minister of Jordan)

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

• 17:30 - Drug war in the Philippines
  Raffy Lerma (Freelance photojournalist), Diane Desierto (University of Notre Dame), Inez Feria (NoBox Philippines)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  Malcolm Turnbull (Former Prime Minister of Australia)

Thursday 28 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Corporations, Business and Social Trust: New Research Launch and Panel Discussion
  Dr. Nikolas Kirby (Blavatnik School of Government), Harvey Koh (FSG Global Impact Consultancy), Peter Holbrooke, CBE (Social Enterprise UK), Lucy Parker (Brunswick group, Future of the Corporation )

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Current challenges to international justice: lean in or leave?
  Leila Sadat (Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The role of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in sustainable development: assessing the first three years
  Various Speakers

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

• 17:30 - Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means
  Donald Moynihan (Visiting Professor, Blavatnik School of Government), Pamela Herd (Georgetown University)

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Pushing past poverty: paths to prosperity
  Lant Pritchett (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Developmentalist financial policy after economic globalisation
  Natalya Naqvi (LSE), Prof. Pepper Culpepper (Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Conflict, crime and illicit flows
  TBA

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Mapping European financial networks: a text reuse approach
  Stefano Pagliari (International Political Economy, City, University London), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Jure Jeric (DPIR)
• 17:00 - The future of nationalism
  Professor Yuli Tamir (Shenkar College), Professor Matthew Goodwin (University of Kent), Professor David Miller (University of Oxford)
  Aspects of Conservatism

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Gender and social accountability at the IMF
  Camila Villard Duran (University of São Paolo and Researcher, ISJPS Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The war in Yemen: challenges in the world's worst humanitarian crisis
  Various Speakers

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Is there a US-China Cold War?
  Professor Joseph Nye

Wednesday 19 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Trust-building in an age of discontent: in conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi
  Rajmohan Gandhi

Monday 24 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Cities and immigration
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 10 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - First Oxford symposium on comparative political philosophy
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - First Oxford Symposium on Comparative Political Philosophy
  Various Speakers

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

• 18:00 - The APS Review: a once-in-a-generation review of the Australian Public Service
  TBA

Friday 6 September 2019 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - What is a democratic right, and what is a philanthropic gift?
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Tom Hall (UBS), Mara Airoldi (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Social Outcomes Conference

Monday 9 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Renovating democracy: governing in the age of globalisation and diigital capitalism
  Nathan Gardels (The Berggruen Institute), Nicolas Berggruen (The Berggruen Institute)

Thursday 10 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Dealing with the government: how countries regulate public procurement
  Simeon Djankov (The World Bank)

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Injustice and governance: an intractable conflict or not?
  TBA

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The temptations of populism
  Andrés Velasco (The LSE School of Public Policy), Nur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division)
• 17:00 - Fighting corruption through governmental auditing
  Sérgio Seabra (Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil), Michael Barzelay (LSE)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:00 - Challenges of Government Conference 2019: The new generations
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Decline of the West?
  Sir Malcolm Rifkind

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - How the 'Party-Government' structure functions in contemporary Chinese governance
  Professor Wang Puqu (Peking University)

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Oxford's housing and homeless crisis: why is it happening and what can be done?
  Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Professor Peter Kemp (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Paul Roberts (Aspire Oxford), Shaista Aziz (Oxford City Council), Elizabeth Garratt (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Case Against Humane War: Lecture in Honor of Professor Henry Shue
  Samuel Moyn (Yale University)

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sustainable growth in low-income countries: what policies should governments pursue?
  Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Reda Cherif (IMF), Fuad Hasanov (IMF), Joaquim Levy (Brazilian economist and Brazil's former Finance Minister)

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

• 13:25 - An insider's account of the US 'war on terror' with Mark Fallon
  Mark Fallon

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The future of work in Africa
  Zainab Usman (World Bank)

Monday 9 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Can transparency and accountability empower communities to improve their health care?
  Various Speakers
• 18:00 - Can transparency and accountability empower communities to improve their health care?
  Various Speakers

Friday 13 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - What role can big cash play in policy?
  Isobel Coleman (GiveDirectly)

Thursday 16 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - People in Government Lab: Thoughts from a behavioural perspective
  Professor Eldar Shafir (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:20 - Political ideology in the 1930s: lessons for the 2020s
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Soleimani strike: What is the future of targeted killing?
  Various Speakers

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - School management selection and student learning: evidence from national reform in Peru
  Renata Lemos (World Bank)
• 17:30 - COP26 events series: Climate change and the US presidential elections
  Various Speakers
  COP26 events series

Monday 23 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The future of the Labour Party
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Do morals matter? Presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump
  Professor Joseph Nye

Friday 29 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Can the world cooperate?
  This event will take place online via Zoom
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 2 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - In conversation with Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and microfinance pioneer
  This event will take place online via Zoom
  Muhammad Yunus (Yunus Social Business)

Wednesday 3 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Mass Atrocities and the UN Security Council
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 7 July 2020 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Economics of inclusion in a COVID world: Policies for a sustainable recovery
  This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register to receive joining instructions.
  Various Speakers

Thursday 30 July 2020 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The politics of vaccines: Development and delivery
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Reshaping capitalism to drive change
  Sir Ronald Cohen

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Transforming the public sector in Nigeria
  Ifueko Omoigui Okauru (Africa Initiative for Governance Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Can carbon markets work?
  Online event
  Various Speakers

Thursday 5 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Remote work in governments: challenges and opportunities
  Various Speakers

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

• 18:00 - What just happened: an intimate look at the 2020 US election
  Frank Luntz

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The global race for COVID-19 vaccines
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Harnessing data to improve government effectiveness
  Various Speakers

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

• 17:00 - Philanthropy: Aristotle to Zuckerberg
  Paul Vallely, Kevin Watkins (CEO, Save the Children), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Reimagining public service in the wake of COVID-19
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 9 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Philosophy, disability and social change (online conference)
  Various Speakers

Thursday 17 December 2020 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - People management: Building the bridge between the public and private sector
  Beto Sicupira (Brava Foundation), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - On 'Auschwitz': reflecting on the meaning of absolute death
  Dan Diner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Fiscal systems and digital: how to tax for innovation
  Benno Ndulu (Former Governor of the Central Bank of Tanzania), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
  New Frontiers of Digital Governance
• 14:00 - Fiscal systems and digital: how to tax for innovation
  Benno Ndulu (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
  New Frontiers of Digital Governance

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - The politics of egalitarianism
  Various Speakers

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Mass atrocity response in China's Xinjiang province
  Various Speakers
• 18:00 - Yemen: What to do next about the world's worst humanitarian crisis?
  Mark Lowcock (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Fiscal systems and digital: how to tax for innovation
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 13 April 2021 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Scotland and independence referendums: short- and long-term reflections
  Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government), Tom Devine (University of Edinburgh), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 14 April 2021 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Global Health Justice online conference
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism: othering and the weakness of Christian identity
  Dr David Kline (University of Tennessee), Professor Zachary Kalo (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)

Thursday 15 April 2021 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Seeking the common good: The role of churches in a post-secular and post-Christendom context
  Anne Guillard (University of Geneva), Sophia Johnson (University of Cambridge), Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government)

Friday 16 April 2021 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Migration, money transfers and mobile money: evidence from Niger
  Jenny Aker (The Fletcher School - Tufts University), Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 14:00 - Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to be changed and how can it be fixed?
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford), Professor Anat Admati (Stanford Graduate School of Business), Raghuram Rajan (Chicago University)

Friday 23 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to be changed and how can it be fixed?
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford), Célestin Monga (Harvard University), Vera Songwe (UN Economic Commission for Africa)

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2021 – The science of organic light-emitting diodes
  TBA
• 12:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2021 – In conversation with the Kyoto Prize Laureates
  Various Speakers
• 14:30 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2021 – Mapping the universe
  Professor James Gunn
• 17:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2021 – A life in theatre
  Ariane Mnouchkine

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The G7 summit: what next for the future of global health?
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - Oxford Syria Society Event: Toward Transitional Justice in Syria
  Ibrahim Olabi (Guernica 37), Amina Koulani (Families for Freedom), Hamza Al-Kateab (Action for Sama)

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

• 16:00 - Leading through perilous times
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 14 July 2021 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:00 - Leading through perilous times
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Regulating privacy in the platform era: A South African perspective
  Professor Jonathan Klaaren (University of the Witwatersrand)

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Cyber Due Diligence report launch
  Talita de Souza Dias (University of Oxford), Antonio Coco (Departmental Lecturer in Law, University of Essex; Visiting Scholar, Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Professor Duncan Hollis (Temple University)

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Corporate boards and the post-COVID-19 recovery
  Dambisa Boyo, Professor Colin Mayer, CBE (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

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

• 18:30 - Mexico: alternatives to address violence
  Dr Margarita Gomez (University of Oxford), Dr Karina Garcia (University of Bristol), Eduardo Guerrero (Lantia), David Perez Espara (Government of Mexico)

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Responding to service fragmentation: outcomes contracts and collaboration in cross-sector ecosystems of support
  Professor Alnoor Ebrahim (Tufts University), Dr Eleanor Carter (University of Oxford), Franziska Rosenbach (University of Oxford), Richard Johnson (Global Fund), Sarah Cooke (Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership), Val Keen (UK Government)
  Engaging with Evidence series

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - AI and Global Security
  Eric Schmidt, James Manyika

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - COP26 in real time
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Ben Abraham, Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Just and unjust uses of limited force
  Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Inward Conquest: The Political Origins of Modern Public Services
  Prof. Pepper Culpepper (Blavatnik School of Government), Thomas Elston (Blavatnik School of Government), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford), Johannes Lindvall (Lund University)

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Supporting refugees through cross-sector collaborations and innovative financing
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford), Tanyah Hameed (Blavatnik School of Government), Stéphane Saussier (Sorbonne Business School), Simon Porcher (Sorbonne Business School), Béatrice Delperdange (KOIS), Joanna Penrose Buckley (Home Office, UK Government), Samir Omar (S-Bank, Finland)
  Engaging with Evidence series

Tuesday 7 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Paul Collier in conversation with Sheila Khama
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Sheila Khama
  Managing oil, gas and mining governance in exceptional times

Monday 13 December 2021 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Paul Collier in conversation with Spencer Dale
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Spencer Dale (BP)
  Managing oil, gas and mining governance in exceptional times

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

• 12:00 - Nazir Razak in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Nazir Razak

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture - Germany, the Holocaust and the postcolonial challenge
  Professor Norbert Frei (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
  Blavatnik School of Government Events
• 17:30 - Germany, the Holocaust and the postcolonial challenge
  Professor Norbert Frei (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-first Century
  Chair: Professor Dapo Akande (Oxford), Dr Hugo Slim (Oxford), Sorcha O’Callaghan (ODI), Professor David Whetham (KCL)
  Blavatnik School of Government Events

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ukraine: What's at stake?
  Professor Harold Koh (Yale Law School), Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 2 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - What does China need to do to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060?
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Professor Fu Jun (Peking University)

Tuesday 15 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Ukraine: the implications
  Cathryn Costello (St Antony's College), Dr Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer (University of Oslo), Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Carol Leonard (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Monday 21 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - How will this end? The military situation in Ukraine and the political implications
  Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 22 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - What have we learned tracking every COVID-19 policy for the last two years?
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Toby Phillips (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Thursday 24 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ukraine: the economic impact
  Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Beata Javorcik (Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Dan Baer (Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government)

Monday 28 March 2022 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Whose vaccine is it anyway? Category prioritisation and gender in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine
  TBA

Monday 4 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:30 - Orthodox political theology between national identity and empire
  Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government), Prof. Dr. Cyril Hovorun, Dr Jenny Leith, Dr Katharina Kunter, Dr Petr Kratochvíl, Revd Dr William Lamb (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 April 2022 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Innovative financing for future pandemic preparedness
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Caesar Atuire (University of Ghana), Michelle Childs (DNDi), Professor Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton University), Professor John-Arne Røttingen (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway)

Wednesday 20 April 2022 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Will Marshall (Founder of Planet Labs) in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  Dr Will Marshall (Planet Labs), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Saving a dissident with diplomacy and international law
  Professor Harold Koh (Yale Law School)

Thursday 28 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Gambling on Development: Why some countries lose and others win
  Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Kate Orkin (Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Lecture: Robert G. Roeder, Regulation of transcription in animal cells: a 50-year journey revealing an expanding universe of factors and mechanisms
  Prof Robert Roeder (Rockerfeller University)
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 17:00 - Laureates' panel: the Kyoto Prize Laureates in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  Professor Andrew Yao (Tsinghua University), Prof Robert Roeder (Rockerfeller University), Professor Bruno Latour (Sciences Po Paris), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Lecture: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, A journey through computer science
  Professor Andrew Yao (Tsinghua University)
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 16:00 - Lecture: Bruno Latour, How to react to a change in cosmology
  Professor Bruno Latour (Sciences Po Paris)
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Governing the climate crisis: How should future leaders prepare?
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Laurie Laybourn-Langton (Institute for Public Policy Research), Nina Möger Bengtsson (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Tessa Vincent (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Officially-supported trade finance: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis
  Professor Andreas Klasen (Offenburg University)

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:30 - Governor Ridwan Kamil of West Java: Political leadership for transforming local government
  Governor Ridwan Kamil (Government of West Java, Indonesia), Dr Julien Labonne (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 26 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - The politics of service delivery: The case of education
  Jaime Saavedra (World Bank), Ruth Kagia (Office of the President of Kenya), Sardar Ali Shah (Minister for Education, Culture, Tourism, Antiquities and Archives, Government of Sindh, Pakistan)

Tuesday 31 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Reimagining capitalism for a world on fire
  Professor Rebecca Henderson (Harvard University)

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:30 - Transforming the war drugs
  Dr Annette Idler (Global Security Programme, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Relief Chief: Mark Lowcock in conversation with Emily Jones
  Mark Lowcock (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Friday 10 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The political economy of US polarisation: Reversing the narrative
  Professor William D. Ferguson (Grinnell College)

Tuesday 13 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Mainstreaming gender at the International Monetary Fund
  Professor Anandi Mani (Blavatnik School of Government), Ratna Sahay (International Monetary Fund)

Tuesday 4 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Rethinking intellectual property for future pandemic preparedness and response
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton University), Professor Brook K. Baker (Northeastern University), Esteban Burrone, Sangeeta Shashikant, Ellen t’Hoen, Fatima Hassan

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local
  Dr Nina Hall (Johns Hopkins University), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Wednesday 26 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Religion and human rights: Enemies or allies?
  John Witte (Emory)

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - From privacy to prohibition: US abortion policy, devolved
  Professor Anita L. Allen, JD., PhD (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Brazil: Looking ahead
  Professor Timothy Power (University of Oxford), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Filipe Recch (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Leany Lemos (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Professor Gabriela Lotta (Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV))

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

• 18:00 - Beyond Imperfect Justice: Legality and Fair Labelling in International Criminal Law
  Talita de Souza Dias (University of Oxford), Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Dr Devika Hovell (London School of Economics and Political Science), Dr Miles Jackson (University of Oxford), Professor Kevin Jon Heller (University of Copenhagen)

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Public Policy Admissions Q&A
  TBA
• 15:30 - Development banks: Unlocking partnerships and financing to build forward
  TBA

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Dystopia and crisis: How can we imagine a better world when the world is burning?
  Sir Geoff Mulgan (UCL), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 9 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Forced migration: Evidence and policy challenges
  Dr Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford), Professor Alex Betts (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford), Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Dr Vlad Mykhenko (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Treatment of prisoners of war in armed conflict
  Professor Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne (University of Bristol), Yvette Issar (ICRC, Geneva), Andrea Raab (ICRC, London), Dr Miles Jackson (University of Oxford)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Establishment of the Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Professor Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Ukraine: The future of ethnic and religious diversity
  Professor Volodymyr Kulyk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Dr Olga Onuch (University of Manchester), Dr Dmytro Vovk (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University)

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The future of the US Republican Party: A Q&A with Pablo E. Carrillo
  Pablo E. Carillo, Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government)

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

• 16:30 - Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood
  Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)

Monday 5 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Book launch: State Fragility
  Dr Nematullah Bizhan (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University), Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 11 January 2023 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The role of journalism in disrupting corruption
  Jane Bradley (New York Times), Mitali Mukherjee (Reuters Institute, Oxford), Professor Chris Stone (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Rachel Auerbach, cultural genocide and a new conception of victims' testimonies
  Professor Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University)

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mark Malloch Brown in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  Mark Malloch Brown (Open Society Foundations), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

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

• 17:30 - Baroness Catherine Ashton in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  Baroness Catherine Ashton, Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Bad bets, bad apples, or bad policy? Should ordeals be a policy tool of the Twenty-first Century?
  Professor Carolyn Heinrich (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Balliol College, Oxford), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Global Security and its political dimensions
  Dr Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government and Pembroke College), Professor Rana Mitter, Professor Samuel Makinda (Murdoch University), Dr Thomas Tieku (King's University College at The University of Western Ontario), Dr Igor Gretskiy (International Centre for Defence and Security), Samira Duale (Creative Alternatives Now)

Thursday 23 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Co-shaping Global Health: Institutional solutions
  TBA

Friday 24 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The COVID-19 pandemic: Celebrating service and drawing lessons for the future
  Professor Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (World Health Organization), Professor Irene Tracey (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Peter Horby (University of Oxford), Professor Sir David Nabarro (Imperial College London), Dr Tu Anh (Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management), Caroline Edwards (former Secretary of the Department of Health, Australia), Mandip Brar (member of the Indian Administrative Service)

Friday 31 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - What did COVID-19 teach us about preparing for mega-crises?
  Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Sir David Omand (King's College London)

Tuesday 18 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Brazil: The first 100 days of the Lula administration
  TBA

Thursday 20 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed?
  Professor Ben Ansell (University of Oxford), Prof. Pepper Culpepper (Blavatnik School of Government), John Simpson (BBC)

Friday 21 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Digital and divided? Navigating geopolitical contestation in cyberspace
  TBA
• 11:00 - Digital and divided? Navigating geopolitical contestation in cyberspace
  David Koh (Singapore Commissioner of Cybersecurity), Professor Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us dissapointed?
  TBA

Tuesday 9 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: A personal journey through the information revolution by engineer and applied physicist Carver Mead
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 15:00 - A personal journey through the information revolution by engineer and applied physicist Carver Mead
  Professor Carver Mead (CalTech)
• 18:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: Laureates' panel: the Kyoto Prize Laureates in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford

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

• 11:00 - Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens in time and space
  Professor Bryan T. Grenfell (Princeton)
• 11:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens in time and space
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 16:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford: Lecture and performance by tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain
  TBA
  Kyoto Prize at Oxford
• 16:00 - Lecture and performance by tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain
  Zakir Hussain

Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - The International Law Protections against Cyber Operations Targeting the Healthcare Sector
  TBA

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

• 15:30 - Michel Barnier in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  TBA

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

• 17:15 - Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar: A citizen-first approach
  Rohini Nilekani

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - What the world needs to learn from India's digital transformation
  Nandan Nilekani (InfoSys), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:15 - What the world needs to learn from India’s digital transformation
  TBA

Thursday 29 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Overcoming the Oppressors
  Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Robert Rotberg

Thursday 20 July 2023 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Insights from the implementation of the Living Goods results-based financing programme
  Various Speakers
  Engaging with Evidence series

Wednesday 13 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Hack and Learn Summer 2023 - Kick-off Session
  Various Speakers

Friday 15 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Accountability at arm’s length: Dame Margaret Hodge in conversation with Professor Carolyn Heinrich
  Dame Margaret Hodge (MP for Barking and Dagenham), Professor Carolyn Heinrich (Vanderbilt University)

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

• 17:15 - Professor Dame Angela McLean in conversation with Dean Ngaire Woods
  The event is open to University of Oxford members only. Please use your university email address to register.
  Dame Angela McLean (Government Chief Scientific Adviser)

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

• 13:00 - Cross-sector collaboration: Insights from a leaders' Playbook
  Various Speakers
  Engaging with Evidence series
• 17:00 - AI safety summit: trends, challenges, and opportunities
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Oxford LatAm Dialogue: Rights and Security - Striking the balance in Latin American public policies
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Godless Crusade
  The event is open to University of Oxford members only. Please use your university email address to register.
  Dr Tobias Cremer (Pembroke College and DPIR, University of Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)

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

• 13:00 - Understanding the DIB effect. Insights from the evaluation of the FCDO Development Impact Bonds Pilot Programmes
  Various Speakers
  Engaging with Evidence series

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Why is there a gender gap in attitudes towards AI?
  Peter Loewen (Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy), Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist
  Maya Tudor (BSG, Oxford), Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy)

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Rising Public Leaders Programme webinar
  Dr Christopher Stone (Blavatnik School of Government), Roxana Radu (Blavatnik School of Government)

Monday 4 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Official launch of the special issue on "Change in Armed Conflict"
  Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government), Katerina Tkacova (Blavatnik School of Government), Richard Caplan (Linacre), Daniele Rugo (Brunel University London)

Wednesday 6 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Christian Right in Europe: Movements, Networks, and Denominations
  Gionathan Lo Mascolo (Fellow at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right), Anja Henning (European University Viadrina), Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 14 December 2023 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 (#PhiDisSocCh4)
  This event is online only.
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - What’s in a (performance) number? And how do we use it?
  Various Speakers
  INDIGO Peer Learning Session

Wednesday 10 January 2024 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Satirical strategies: exposing corruption with humour
  all in-person spaces are fully booked - online registration still available
  Various Speakers

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Alfred Landecker Holocaust Memorial event - Film screening of ‘The Zone of Interest’ followed by a panel discussion
  the event is now fully booked, no more submissions are permitted.
  Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Shirli Gilbert (University College London), Zoe Waxman (Oxford)

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Talk with Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Winner
  Oleksandra Matviichuk (Centre for Civil Liberties), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Blavatnik Book Talks: Our Future: A Green Manifesto for Latin America and the Caribbean
  Dr Juan Pablo Orjuela (University of Oxford), Iván Duque Márquez, Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government)

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

• 10:15 - Pakistan Elections: Expectations, realities and the path forward
  This is a hybrid event.
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Costa Rica's Trail: Policy lessons in trade, Environmental Stewardship, and Science Diplomacy
  Andres Valenciano Yamuna (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean), María Estelí Jarquín (International Relations Coordinator at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)), HE Mr Rafael Ortiz Fábrega (Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - Blavatnik Election Briefings: Indonesia Votes - Understanding the Indonesian Election: Lessons from the World's Third-Largest Democracy
  This is a hybrid event.
  Various Speakers

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

• 18:00 - ‘The world found nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human.’ On (not) seeing others as human.
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Anne Phillips (LSE), Dr Lior Erez (Blavatnik School of Government), Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - Hack and Learn Spring 2024
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Lisa Yasko's talk at the Blavatnik School of Government
  Lisa Yasko (MP of the Ukrainian Parliament)

Wednesday 13 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Blavatnik Election Briefings: Russia Votes - Examining the impact of another Putin presidency
  Sergei Guriev (SciencesPo), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 14 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Wellbeing - Science and Policy
  Various Speakers

Monday 8 April 2024 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict
  This is a hybrid event.
  Joel H. Rosenthal (Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs), Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Professor Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 April 2024 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session One
  This event takes place online only.
  Professor Gina Gustavsson (Uppsala University, Sweden), Dr Marius Guderjan (Freie Universität Berlin), Professor Patrick Berghagen (University of Stuttgart), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series

Thursday 18 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Two
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Ruth Carlitz (University of Amsterdam), Professor Patrick Berghagen (University of Stuttgart), Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Three
  This event takes place online only.
  Professor Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zürich), Angie Jo (MIT), Professor Stella Ladi (Queen Mary University of London), Professor Gina Gustavsson (Uppsala University, Sweden), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Weight of Nature
  This is a hybrid event.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Blavatnik Book Talks: J L Austin — Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence officer
  Mark Rowe (Author and Researcher), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government)

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

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Four
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Francisco Pozo-Martin (Robert Koch Institute), Professor Julia Wang (National Taiwan University), Professor Philipp Trein (University of Lausanne), Professor Stella Ladi (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Mexico's missing - How families and technology are working together
  This is a hybrid event.
  Lucía de los Angeles Díaz (Solecito de Vercruz), Miguel Moctezuma (Global Security Programme, Blavatnik School of Government), Víctor Hugo Ávila Barrientos (Jalisco Missing Persons Search Commission)

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Laureates Panel
  Please note this event takes place online only.
  Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Elliott H Lieb (Princeton University), Nalini Malani (Artist)

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

• 11:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Dr Elliott H Lieb - My journey through physics and mathematics
  this is a hybrid event.
  Dr Elliott H Lieb (Princeton University), Professor Shivaji Sondhi (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2024: Nalini Malani - My Reality is Different
  this is a hybrid event.
  Nalini Malani (Artist), Mallica Kumbera Landrus (Ashmolean)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Five
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Kevin Bardosh (Collateral Global, University of Edinburgh and University of Washington), Dr Yuxi Zhang (University College London), Steven Kuan-Ju Chen (Cadmus International UK Ltd / National Taiwan University), Professor Philipp Trein (University of Lausanne), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Zeinab Badawi in conversation with Dean Ngaire Woods
  Zeinab Badawi (BBC), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Six
  This event takes place online only.
  Angie Jo (MIT), Dr Kerim Can Kavakli (Bocconi University), Dr Marina Schenkel (Trinity College Dublin), Marjolaine Lamontagne (McGill University), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Seven
  This event takes place online only.
  Dr Kerim Can Kavakli (Bocconi University), Dr Ruth Carlitz (University of Amsterdam), Dr Hanna-Tina Fischer (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Dr Marina Kaneti (National University of Singapore), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Book Launch: Long Problems - Climate and the Challenge of Governing across Time
  Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University)

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - OxCGRT Seminar Series: Session Eight
  This event takes place online only.
  Marjolaine Lamontagne (McGill University), Professor Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zürich), Dr Marina Kaneti (National University of Singapore), Dr Hanna-Tina Fischer (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Dr Anna Petherick (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Andrea Vaccaro (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
  OxCGRT Seminar Series

Thursday 27 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Oxford Cyber Forum
  Various Speakers