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September
FULLY BOOKED Oxford Open Doors 2022 at the Oxford Martin School Tour (3.30pm)
10th September 2022: 3:30pm
Registration Required
Oxford Martin School
In conjunction with the Oxford Preservation Trust the Oxford Martin School is delighted to be part of the Oxford Open Doors 2022 programme and hopes that you can join us for a tour of our listed building.
June
'Decolonising Africa-Europe relations' with Prof Carlos Lopes
16th June 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
Africa and Europe stand at a crossroads.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
Book talk: 'Butler to the world: how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals' with Oliver Bullough
15th June 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
In this event chaired by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Oliver Bullough will be discussing his best selling and critically acclaimed book, 'Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals'.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
Book talk: 'Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning' with Claire Craig & Sarah Dillon
8th June 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
There is an urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning.
'The economic impacts of large dams: a comparative analysis of the Nile and Colorado Rivers' with Ken Strzepek, Kevin Wheeler & Jim Hall
6th June 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
The Colorado River and the Nile River are both undergoing dramatic transformations.
May
Book Talk: 'Envisioning 2060: opportunities and risks for emerging markets' with Harinder Kohli, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Sir Suma Chakrabarti & Ian Goldin
31st May 2022: 12:30pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
The event will launch a book by the Emerging Markets Forum (EMF), a Washington DC based not-for-profit think tank focused on emerging economies.
'P4 healthcare and precision population health - a transformation of healthcare' with Dr Leroy Hood
25th May 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
If one takes a systems approach to healthcare, it is obvious that it should be predictive, preventive, personalised and participatory (P4).
'Illicit finance and the role of professional enablers in the United Kingdom: are things finally changing?' with Andrew Mitchell & Dame Margaret Hodge
24th May 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting sanctions regime has shed light on the United Kingdom’s harbouring of illicit wealth from around the world.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
'From swimming in data to drowning: What happens when new data essentially falsify all extant theories within a field?' with Prof Robert Axtell
19th May 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
Data have always been the lifeblood of the sciences, giving rise to new theories, invalidating old.
Panel Discussion: 'Illicit financial flows and offshore finance: its impact on African development'
11th May 2022: 5:00pm
Live Stream
Online - Crowdcast
Join us as our panel of three major African experts discuss the impact of illicit financial flows and offshore structures on the continent’s development prospects.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
Panel Discussion 'Adaptation limits and prospects for people and ecosystems: findings from the IPCC (WGII) report’
10th May 2022: 5:30pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
The IPCC WG1 has already established that human-induced global warming has reached over 1C and is continuing to rise, demonstrating that climate change is not only a threat in the future, but also right now.
Panel discussion: "On the trail of capital flight from Africa"
4th May 2022: 5:00pm
Live Stream
Online - Crowdcast
Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, and South Africa are countries that have witnessed large-scale illicit financial outflows in recent decades.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
Book talk: ‘Why do some countries gamble on development, and others don’t?’ with Stefan Dercon, David Pilling, Melinda Bohannon & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
3rd May 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School
In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed.
Series: African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges
March
'The critical case for reforming land-based carbon accounting' with Tim Searchinger
29th March 2022: 4:00pm
Live Stream
Main Lecture Theatre, School of Geography and the Environment
The capacity of land to grow plants plays a key role in emerging carbon-neutrality climate strategies of both countries and companies.
"Getting to a fusion pilot plant: a perspective from the US" with Prof Sir Steve Cowley
23rd March 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Online & Oxford Martin School
Fusion could, if developed, play a major role as a major "firm" addressable power source in the future decarbonised energy supply.
