14 October 2019
Speaker Series: Interview with Randall Kroszner
Professor Randall Kroszner, Deputy Dean for Executive Programs at Chicago Booth, and former Federal Reserve Governor, talks to Sunil Krishnan about a range of current international policy issues. They discuss strategic rivalry between the US and China, the challenge of managing global data, and the principles of regulating new financial technologies such as Facebook's Libra.
07 October 2019
Speaker Series: Interview with Janet Henry and Osama Rahman
Janet Henry, Global Chief Economist at HSBC, and Osama Rahman, Chief Scientific Advisor and Director of Analysis at the Department for Education, talk to Sunil Krishnan about their careers in economics and the outlook for the profession, on the sidelines of the Society's Careers for Economists event held at Aviva.
18 September 2019
Speaker Series: Interview with Jonathan Athow and Jill Leyland
Jonathan Athow, Interim National Statistician at the Office for National Statistics, and Jill Leyland, Member of the Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices, talk to Sunil Krishnan about the measurement of inflation in the UK. They discuss the challenges posed by modern consumption and price-setting behaviour, the development of new Household Cost Indices, and how modern "big data" techniques are starting to improve our collection of data.
01 July 2019
Speaker Series: Interview with Martin Wolf and Stephanie Flanders
Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator for the Financial Times, and Stephanie Flanders, head of Bloomberg Economics, speak to Sunil Krishnan about the phenomenon of populism, and what it means for liberal democracy and market economics.
28 September 2018
Speaker Series: Jari Stehn & Tom Orlik,
On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Jari and Tom discuss the prospects for the US dollar and global supply chains in the fallout from the US-China trade war, and Tom explains the growth of thought leadership and economic thinking inside media groups.
28 September 2018
Speaker Series: Interview with Evan Davis
On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to Evan Davis about key lessons for economists from the Brexit referendum, when the profession's majority view went one way, and most of the voting public the other. How does the public make economic judgements? How do they weigh these against other considerations? And what can economists do to restore some of the credibility they seem to have lost?
28 September 2018
Speaker Series: Interview with Stephanie Flanders
On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to the event's host about how the day's discussions reflect on the mood of the economics profession, the way forward for practitioners, and life at the intersection of journalism and financial markets.
28 September 2018
Speaker Series: Robert Chote, Chairman Office for Budget Responsibility
On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Robert discusses the changing environment for forecasting with fewer public sector staff having advanced sight of official data and countered by the challenges facing short-term forecasts against risks such as Brexit, trade and disruptive politics.
28 September 2018
Speaker Series: Philip Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland
On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to Philip Lane about how the European Central Bank has developed its policy strategy to govern the range of unconventional tools it has employed in recent years. They also discuss ways of gauging the effectiveness of different tools, and how multi-national policy can co-exist with localised labour markets.
16 August 2018
In Profile: interview with Rain Newton‑Smith
Rebecca Harding talks to Rain Newton-Smith