Events

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   Live Stream
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.

9th March 2026: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Energy systems are often defined by physical boundaries and framed as either connected (interconnected grids) or isolated (energy islands), yet this binary view obscures how they actually operate and are governed.

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

AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job interviews, and wars. The ubiquity of AI is so great that it might produce public resignation—a sense that the technology is our shared fate.

5th March 2026: 1:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Is there an alternative to the failed orthodoxies of neoliberalism or the chaos of economic populism? Yes, according to Oxford economist Professor Eric Beinhocker and technology entrepreneur and civic activist Nick Hanauer. A new paradigm is emerging that they call ‘Market Humanism” which has the potential to reshape our economy and our politics.

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

This panel discussion will explore how biodiversity science can better inform decisions in business, finance, government and other bodies.

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

This talk will build on findings from recent assessments of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and other platforms to explore the transformations needed, and linkages across sectors and countries, to respond to multiplying disruptions across the globe. David Obura will present some provocations to explore the underlying causes of challenges to sustainability today, and emerging perspectives to build new solutions for the multiple intersecting crises across nature, economy, society and governance.

27th January 2026: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Join the Oxford Climate Research Network and the Oxford Martin School for a debrief panel unpacking the key outcomes and implications of COP30, with insights from members of the Oxford delegation.

22nd January 2026: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Professor Ottmar Edenhofer will examine why large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is essential for meeting climate targets and establishing a third pillar of climate policy alongside abatement and adaptation.

4th December 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

The last year has been marked by a dramatic turn away from multilateral cooperation towards the assertion of national interest. Many attribute this directly to the re-election of President Trump, and while he is the most prominent spokesman and catalyst for this change, the talk will trace how the US move away from multilateral cooperation began much earlier. This shift is also not limited to the US, as other countries also focus on the promotion of national interest over international solidarity.

1st December 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Epilepsy affects over 50 million people worldwide, yet women of reproductive age, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, continue to face multiple barriers to care during pregnancy. In Nepal, these challenges highlight the urgent need to integrate epilepsy into maternal and reproductive health systems to ensure safer pregnancies and better long-term outcomes.

26th November 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Kathy Harvey will be in conversation with Kim Darroch, former British Ambassador to the European Union, National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United States, about the new disorder and its consequences for governments and businesses.

Series: Oxford Martin School and Saïd Business School Termly Events

25th November 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's "rice bowl" and a globally significant biodiversity hotspot, is on the front line of climate change.