Time: 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building (LSE campus)
Speaker: Dr Minouche Shafik (Bank of England)
Nemat (Minouche) Shafik became Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on 1 August 2014. She is Deputy Governor for Markets & Banking. She represents the Bank in international groups and institutions, including as G7 Deputy and in the Bank's engagement with the IMF, overseas central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Dr Shafik sits on the Monetary Policy Committee, and attends the Financial Policy Committee and the Bank's Court of Directors. More details about Dr Shafik and the event itself can be found here.
Tickets: This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested.
LSE students and staff are able to collect one ticket per person from the New Academic Building SU shop, located on the Kingsway side of the building from 10am on Tuesday 21 October. These tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis.
Members of the public, LSE alumni, LSE students and LSE staff can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live on this listing from around 6pm on Tuesday 21 October until at least 12noon on Wednesday 22 October. If at 12noon we have received more requests than there are tickets available, the line will be closed, and tickets will be allocated on a random basis to those requests received. If we have received fewer requests than tickets available, the ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated.
More details about the ticket line, including the ticket form, can be found at this link on the LSE Main website here.
This event is co-hosted by:
The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching.
The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) brings together world-class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and to help design policies that alleviate it.
The International Growth Centre ( @The_IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID.
Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEBoE
This event is generously supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [grant number ES/K002309/1].
A podcast and video of Minouche Shafik's speech are available here.