A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of do’s and don’ts for policymakers around the world, but it fell short by neglecting the social and institutional underpinnings indispensable for achieving sustained growth and building fairer and more cohesive societies. What new ideas —and policies— can guide us through the challenges humanity faces today?
Meet our speakers and chair
Oriana Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at LSE, and a honorary foreign member of the American Economic Association, a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, CEPR, BREAD and IZA. She is Director of the Hub for Equal Representation at the LSE and of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC) programme at IZA.
Margaret Levi is emerita professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and faculty fellow and former Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University. She is co-director of the Stanford Ethics, Society, and Technology Initiatives.
Dani Rodrik is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has published widely in the areas of economic development, international economics, and political economy. His current research focuses on employment and economic growth, in both developing and advanced economies.
Andrés Velasco is Professor and Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE. Since 2021 he has been a member the High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) to the IMF and the World Bank. In 2017-18 he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. He also served as Minister of Finance of Chile between 2006 and 2010.
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