Legatum Institute Foundation

The Legatum Institute, Harvard Business Review and USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study hosted an intensive half-day conference on how different disciplines think about the future. The first session discussed how different disciplines approach forecasting, and how science, technology and human judgement are interlinked to determine the best outcomes when making predictions and tracking behaviour. Discussants: Matthew Barzun, US Ambassador to the UK, Ben Page, CEO of Ipsos Mori and Mikkel Rasmussen, Europe Director of ReD Associates. The conversation was moderated by Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO of the Legatum Institute.

As part of the Legatum Institute's Salon Series, 'Prosperity on the Edge: 1913-14 The Last Year of Peace', former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams delivered a lecture on historian Adolf von Harnack's influence at the time, as well as the way in which post-war thought was shaped by the reaction against his kind of liberal religion. The discussion was moderated by Legatum Institute Senior Adviser Hywel Williams.

The Legatum Institute, Harvard Business Review and USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study hosted an intensive half-day conference on how different disciplines think about the future. The second session of the day, entitled 'Revolutions in the Pipeline', looked at future innovations and potential shifts in technology and economics, which may have a disruptive impact. Discussants: Diane Coyle, President of Enlightenment Economics and Ben Hammersley, writer and futurist.

To mark the launch of its latest 'Transitions Forum' paper on "Libya in Transition: Reforming the financial sector to spur economic growth", the Legatum Institute, in partnership with Brehon Advisory, will host a livestreamed panel discussion with Mark Dempsey, Dr Fatima Hamroush and Mary Fitzgerald. The discussion was moderated by LI Director of Global Transitions Anne Applebaum. Further information: http://www.li.com/news-events/events/2013/11/27/default-calendar/reforming-libya-s-financial-sector-and-the-politics-that-go-with-it

Estonian President Toomas Ilves delivered a keynote address for the Legatum Institute. He discussed how Estonia went from a "a non-digital society with no hardware, no software and a completely different form of communication, to a world where we cannot imagine living without this technology".

A livestreamed discussion to launch the first of the Legatum Institute's Global Fellow's papers, beginning on the series with a paper on entrepreneurship in the developing world. Authored by Reuben Abraham, the paper 'Learning by Doing: What Makes Entrepreneurship Thrive?' presents lessons learned and findings from over six years' experience combining research and practice to engineer entrepreneurial solutions to pressing socio-economic problems. Panellists included: Reuben Abraham, Partner and Head of Urbanization at the IDFC Foundation in Mumbai, Guy Rigby, Head of Entrepreneurs at Smith & Williamson, and Gunilla Carlsson, former Swedish Minister for International Development. The discussion was moderated by Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO of the Legatum Institute. The event was hosted in partnership with the Centre for Entrepreneurs.

The Legatum Institute was pleased to host the West Asia - North Africa (WANA) Forum chaired by His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal for a private roundtable discussion about the concept of a Regional Bank for Reconstruction and Development (RBRD) in the WANA region. In this short clip, LI Director of Global Transitions interviews Prince El Hassan on the themes discussed at the roundtable.

In association with The Henry Jackson Society, the Legatum Institute hosted Christian Whiton, Principal of D.C. International Advisory for a discussion on his book which offers new solutions to the foreign threats the UK and US face today, including radical reform of the national security bureaucracy. The discussion was moderated by the Henry Jackson Society's Douglas Murray.

In a discussion at the Legatum Institute Josh Muravchik, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for 23 October 2013: In a discussion at the Legatum Institute Josh Muravchik, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, presented and discussed ideas from his latest book, 'The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East'. The discussion was moderated by Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO of the Legatum Institute.

A conversation with William Inboden, William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy, and Statecraft, University of Texas-Austin, on American foreign policies. The discussion was moderated by the Legatum Institute's Nathan Gamester.