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The Urgency of Drug Discovery
09 Feb 18 in Videos
In this short video, Professor Chas Bountra, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, discusses the process of drug discovery; what we need drugs for, what the challenges are and how can we make them efficiently and affordable. Professor Bountra also explains the focus of the Programme on Affordable Medicines.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/the-urgency-of-drug-discovery
Dr Kate Orkin
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Kate Orkin is Senior Research Fellow in Behavioural Economics at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Supernumerary Fellow of Merton College.
Prior to this, she was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College. Kate completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town and her DPhil at the University of Oxford. Kate is an applied microeconomist, working...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/kate-orkin
Book talk: ‘Why do some countries gamble on development, and others don’t?’ with Stefan Dercon, David Pilling, Melinda Bohannon & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
04 May 22 in Videos
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.
And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Oxford’s Stefan Dercon’s new book, “Gambling on Development: Why some countries win and others lose”, asks why it is that some of the previously poorest...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/gambling-on-development
'Illicit finance and the role of professional enablers in the United Kingdom: are things finally changing?' with Andrew Mitchell & Dame Margaret Hodge
25 May 22 in Videos
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.
It has also revealed the centrality of enablers in the legal and financial sectors in laundering oligarchs’ monies and reputations. As co-chairs of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax, Andrew Mitchell and Margaret Hodge have been at...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/illicit-finance-mitchell-hodge
Book talk: 'Butler to the world: how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals' with Oliver Bullough
16 Jun 22 in Videos
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'.
In Butler to the World, Bullough reveals how the UK has become a hospitable location for oligarchs and kleptocrats from all over the world...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/butler-to-the-world
Panel discussion: 'Kleptocracy and The Financial Action Task Force'
06 Jun 23 in Videos
The international standards regarding money laundering and terrorist financing are set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which describes itself as a ‘global watchdog’ whose recommendations ‘aim to prevent these illegal activities and the harm they cause to society’.
Yet various scandals such as the ‘laundromats’ of Russia and Azerbaijan – where billions of dollars were laundered into the West...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/kleptocracy
Panel discussion: 'Uncovering the offshore world: how researchers investigate shell companies, international wealth managers and transnational informal economies'
14 Jun 23 in Videos
According to the Tax Justice Network, up to $32 trillion in hidden assets are held in offshore tax havens.
The increasing outflow of money into the offshore world starves developing countries of government revenues, enables kleptocrats to hide their illicitly acquired wealth, and allows global multinational companies to lawfully avoid paying hundreds of billions in taxes. Until recently, we lacked comprehensive...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/uncovering-the-offshore-world
