Congratulations to Muthomi Gichaara and Shahzad Gitay, for winning this year’s Rybczynski Prize. To read the winning entry, Dancing with the bear: The impact of sanctions on Russian trade click here.

The result of this year’s competition was revealed at last night’s Annual Dinner, with François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France as our guest speaker.

The panel are always impressed by the standard of essays we receive year on year. To read this shortlisted essays, visit the SPE reading room.

We are grateful to KPMG for their generous sponsorship of the award.