Each year we invite a prominent speaker on international development to give the IDS Annual Lecture. These events are open to the public and available to watch online afterwards. Past speakers include Vice President of the Gambia Isatou Touray, and world-renown economist Jayati Ghosh.
The Gambia, once viewed as an improbable nation, suffering the fate of many other African countries bedevilled with coups and dictatorial regimes, has gone on to prove itself not only as a viable state, but also as a beacon of democracy in...
Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and founding director of UNAids, delivered the IDS Annual Lecture 2018 on ‘Can we end the aids epidemic? The need for a development approach’. Lecture was broadcast live on Facebook. As a result of...
World renowned economist, Professor Jayati Ghosh devliered this year's IDS Annual Lecture on ‘The complexities of success: Globalisation, inequality and economic insecurity in China and India’.
The inaugural IDS Annual Lecture delivered by Professor Ferguson is titled “Not Working: Rethinking Production and Distribution in the Jobless City”. It examines the issue of contemporary global cities being full of people not in stable, waged employment and suggesting new analytical...