Hannah Bargawi (SOAS), John Sender (SOAS); Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group); Haroon Akram-Lodhi (Trent University, Canada and SOAS Alumnus)

SOAS Economics has been leading teaching and research in Political Economy, Development Economics and Heterodox Economics and has participated in core policy debates, including those on sustainable development. SOAS Economics continues to foster the next generation of Economists and Political Economists across the globe while its research continues to drive academic thinking and policy debates in the UK and internationally. Our aim, individually as researchers, and as an academic department, continues to be the teaching and research of Economics and Political Economy for a Fairer World. This has never been more urgent, given the challenges we face on global, national and local levels, from the rise of nationalist politics and entrenching economic inequalities to the intensifying environmental challenges. This annual event will be an opportunity to showcase the Department’s contributions to these urgent questions and invite discussion on the direction of future SOAS Economics research. Our guests include alumni, current SOAS Economics researchers and friends and collaborators sharing our research interests.

Through this event, we hope to initiate lively discussions and debates on the most pressing economic questions facing our society and the globe. We invite current, prospective and former students and researchers to be part of this conversation.

INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME, Hannah Bargawi (SOAS)

Panel I:

INTERSECTING INEQUALITIES

Chair: Hannah Bargawi (SOAS)

Panel: John Sender (SOAS); Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group); Haroon Akram-Lodhi (Trent

University, Canada and SOAS Alumnus)

Speakers: Hannah Bargawi (SOAS), John Sender (SOAS); Sara Reis (Women’s Budget Group); Haroon Akram-Lodhi (Trent University, Canada and SOAS Alumnus)