On Monday 13 October, the SPE held its Annual Conference, kindly hosted by Bloomberg LP in their flagship London office.

The event was chaired by Stephanie Flanders, Head of Bloomberg Economics, and featured an inspiring line-up of speakers, including:

• Megan Greene, External Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England
• Jamie Rush, Director of Global Economics, Bloomberg
• Sir Ivan Rogers, former UK G8, G20 and EU Sherpa and former UK Permanent Secretary to the EU
• Neil Shearing, Group Chief Economist, Capital Economics
• Jennifer Welch, Chief Geoeconomics Analyst, Bloomberg Economics
• Michael Pollitt, Prof of Business Economics, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
• Rachel Fletcher, Director of Regulation and Economics, Octopus Energy
• Ken Egan, Senior Director, KBRA
• Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard University
• Rupert Harrison, Senior Advisor, PIMCO
• Lorenzo Codogno, Founder, LC Macro Advisors and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

You can watch the whole event below. Our thanks go to all speakers and Bloomberg for making this event such a success.

Part 1 video:

In part 1 you can watch Megan Greene talk on Monetary policy under uncertainty followed by Jamie Rush on The past, present and future of the natural rate of interest.

Part 2 video:

In part 2 you can watch the Threat of Geopolitics panel with Sir Ivan Rogers, Neil Shearing and Jennifer Welch followed by the session Switching lanes - time for a change in utilities regulation? with Prof Michael Pollitt and Rachel Fletcher.

Part 3 video:

In part 3 you can watch the panel Going off-road: is government debt too high? with Ken Egan, Jason Furman and Rupert Harrison followed by a talk on European renaissance or stuck in the mud?