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How to get government and the private sector to work together for the common good

Hosted by the School of Public Policy

In-person and online public event (Great Hall, Marshall Building)

Speaker

Sharon White

Sharon White

Chair

Andrés Velasco

Andrés Velasco

Join us for this year's School of Public Policy Annual Lecture with guest speaker Sharon White. 

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Dame Sharon White was the John Lewis Partnership's sixth Chairman from February 2020 to September 2024. Sharon moved to JLP from Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, where she served as Chief Executive. Before joining Ofcom, Sharon was Second Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, responsible for overseeing the public finances. She also held Board level positions at the Ministry of Justice and the Department for International Development: worked as an adviser at the Prime Minister's Policy Unit and in Washington DC as a senior economist at the World Bank. Sharon is also a trained economist and studied at Cambridge University and University College London.

Andrés Velasco (@AndresVelasco) is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE. He was previously the Minister of Finance of Chile between March 2006 and March 2010. 

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The LSE School of Public Policy (@LSEPublicPolicy) equips you with the skills and ideas to transform people and societies. It is an international community where ideas and practice meet. Their approach creates professionals with the ability to analyse, understand and resolve the challenges of contemporary governance.

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