Events

27th October 2026: 5:00pm
Oxford Martin School & Online

The Oxford economist Sir Dieter Helm discusses his latest book in which, while emphasising the urgent need to address climate change, he challenges standard narratives about halting climate change and argues for a brutal reality check on policy failures and why after 30 years of UN climate conferences we have failed to slow rising CO₂ levels.

26th October 2026: 12:30pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

In affluent countries, healthier diets can reduce environmental pressures; where nutrition remains inadequate, however, dietary improvement may initially require more food, water, and energy, or shift environmental pressures to distant producers.

22nd October 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

This book by Professor Rob Garlick is a timely call to action for anyone concerned about the future of work. In the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, Queen Elizabeth II famously asked: ‘Why did nobody see it coming?’ As today’s AI revolution reshapes work at unprecedented speed, the question is no longer whether we see it coming—but what we choose to do about it.

21st October 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

Professor Arindrajit (Arin) Dube, one of the most influential economists on the topic of wage inequality and minimum wage policies, presents his new book, 'The Wage Standard: What's Wrong in the Labour Market and How to Fix It'.

15th October 2026: 5:00pm
The Sheldonian Theatre and Online

We welcome Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, who will give this year's James Martin Memorial Lecture.

12th October 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

In this talk Andrew Sutton will share from recent research on how finance may act both as an AI risk vector and risk mitigant.

10th June 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Development is usually measured and governed at the level of nations — but the evidence tells a different story, in which cities are the fundamental unit. This inversion redefines development as a tangible process of physical, social and economic connectivity, leading to interesting new solutions.

9th June 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

The multi-lateral international system that the US and her allies built after WW2 is in terminal decline. A new system has yet to be established. This is compounded by phenomenal technological change and the evolving character of politics and warfare. The consequence is a world that is far less stable than we have had for several generations. How should this be navigated?

4th June 2026: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

An overview of the ongoing impacts of the Soufrière Hills Volcano on the island of Montserrat, and the potential for magma-derived resources to support energy independence and sustainable access to critical metals.

2nd June 2026: 2:00pm
Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House

A roundtable discussion organised by the Oxford Department of International Development and the Oxford Martin School.

28th May 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

This panel discussion will assess how far the government’s good intentions on housing are being realised. But what are the prospects for tackling the UK’s dysfunctional property taxes? Is the speculative builder model for private sector housing supply fit for purpose? Do we need radical new ways of expanding access for Britain’s families to decent roofs over their heads?

21st May 2026: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Dr David Cooper will highlight why urgent action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss is important, describe progress in achieving the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and discuss what further steps are needed.

20th May 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

From an award-winning University of Oxford Professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies - the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthcare to the news and social media we consume and the products foisted upon us.

18th May 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s stark pronouncement in Davos on the “rupture” of the rules-based order captured the sense of many that long-held international norms hold little sway and the practices of major powers are increasingly unpredictable. Yet, change in global order(s) is nothing new. Our current conceptual frameworks risk overstating contemporary change even as they may have missed more subtle, but still significant, changes in global order and governance over the last several decades.

26th March 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Gillis Lecture Theatre, Balliol College

Dr Johan Swinnen will examine how shifting geopolitics, conflicts, trade disruptions, and changes in the food development finance landscape have affected progress on hunger and nutrition for transforming food systems and what the implications are.

19th March 2026: 5:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Saïd Business School & Online

The challenges and opportunities of considering nature and biodiversity in making decisions in the private sector are becoming ever more urgent. At this panel discussion, co-organised by the Oxford Martin School and the Saïd Business School, Professor Mette Morsing (Interim Dean of Saïd Business School) will moderate a discussion amongst Oxford researchers and senior executives from the private sector to explore these issues.