A Final Word from the 2012 Summit Coordinators

Posted on 20 / 02 / 2012

What an amazing weekend!

We hope all delegates had a really enjoyable time and will agree that it simply flew by. This year we were blessed with an incredible line-up of speakers and we hope delegates have been inspired by the talks.

The Summit was the culmination of nearly 12 months of hard work by our team of 50 students and we want to thank each and every one of them for the time and effort they have each put in to make the Summit the success it has been.

We hope you have gained new perspectives and made new friends and that you will remember your time here for many years to come. It has been an honour and a privilege to be Coordinators of this years Summit and we look forward to seeing what the 2013 Summit has in store!

Stela Bonifacic and Winston Yap

Warwick Economics Summit 2012 Coordinators

Warwick Economics Summit launches free iPhone and iPod Touch App

Posted on 14 / 02 / 2012

Warwick Economics Summit is delighted to launch, for the first time, a free iPhone and iPod Touch application available from the App Store.

The app includes information about the Summit, exclusive Warwick Economics Summit videos, the programme for this year's Summit and Trivia about the University of Warwick and Economics in general.

For more information about the app and to find out how to download it click here: http://bit.ly/WESapp

Speaker update: MP John Hemming completes the panel line up

Posted on 7 / 02 / 2012

John Hemming, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley has completed the line up for this year's Question Time Panel. Mr Hemming studied Natural Sciences at Oxford and founded his first business, providing settlements systems for stockbrokers, at the age of 23. The company is now a multi-million pound enterprise.

John was elected to the Birmingham Yardley constituency in 2005. A staunch opponent of super- and hyper-injunctions (privacy laws) he is known by many for using parliamentary privilege to reveal the existence of super-injunctions against the likes of former RBS Chief Executive Fred Goodwin and footballer Ryan Giggs.

Mr Hemming joins journalist and broadcaster Margaret Doyle, Director of ResPublica Phillip Blond and founder of the Microfinance group at Clifford Chance on this year's panel.

Mr Hemming also concludes the line up for this year's Summit which includes:

• Nobel Laureate Professor George Akerlof
• Bestselling author Professor Steven Landsburg
• Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
• Rufus H. Yerxa, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organisation
• Dr Adam Posen, Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee
• Baroness Vadera, former Government Minister and Investment Banker
• Paul Ormerod, renowned British economist
• John O'Sullivan, Britain Economics Editor for The Economist
• Charles Seaford, Head of the Centre for Well-being at the New Economics Foundation
• Professor Abhinay Muthoo, Head of the Department of Economics, University of Warwick
• Professor Sascha Becker, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
• Dr Johannes Abeler, Lecturer at the University of Oxford
• Mark Smythe, RBS Group Economist

Question Time Panel

• Margaret Doyle, broadcaster and journalist
• Maya Mehta, Lawyer and founder of the Microfinance group at Clifford Chance
• Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica
• John Hemming MP, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley

For more details on our speakers, click here: http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/programme

Speaker update: Rufus H. Yerxa, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organisation

Posted on 26 / 01 / 2012

We are delighted to announce that Mr Rufus H. Yerxa will be speaking at Warwick Economics Summit 2012.

Mr Yerxa has served as Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since 2002. He has an extensive record as a trade negotiator, diplomat and lawyer. Mr Yerxa served in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), first as the Geneva-based Ambassador and subsequently as the Deputy USTR in Washington. Prior to these appointments he was with the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Trade. His private sector experience includes both law practice and a senior corporate role.

For more information, please click on our speaker's page: http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/programme

Mr Yerxa joins what is already one of the best line ups of speakers in the history of the Summit including:

• Nobel Laureate Professor George Akerlof
• Bestselling author Professor Steven Landsburg
• Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
• Dr Adam Posen, Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee
• Baroness Vadera, former Government Minister and Investment Banker
• Paul Ormerod, renowned British economist
• John O'Sullivan, Britain Economics Editor for The Economist
• Charles Seaford, Head of the Centre for Well-being at the New Economics Foundation
• Professor Abhinay Muthoo, Head of the Department of Economics, University of Warwick
• Professor Sascha Becker, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
• Dr Johannes Abeler, Lecturer at the University of Oxford
• Margaret Doyle, broadcaster and journalist
• Maya Mehta, Lawyer and founder of the Microfinance group at Clifford Chance

Click here for more details about this year's speakers: http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/programme

Speaker update: Rt Hon David Willetts MP pulls out of Warwick Economics Summit

Posted on 26 / 01 / 2012

We regret to announce that Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State or Universities and Science, is no longer able to attend Warwick Economics Summit 2012.

Mr Willetts's office has informed us that he has unforseen 'urgent Parliamentary business' over the Summit weekend.

For more information about our exciting new speaker announcement click here: http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/news?id=24

Warwick Tickets sold out in record-breaking 57 minutes! ALL tickets now sold out.

Posted on 25 / 01 / 2012

The tickets for Warwick (also known as "Internal" students) sold out in less than an hour today!

Many thanks to everyone who purchased their tickets!

For those of you who didn't manage to secure a ticket, please include your e-mail address on our waiting list.

Latest update (26 January 2012): All tickets are now sold out.

Internal students: Register for the waiting list.

External students: Contact us if you would like to be added to the externals waiting list.

Internal (Warwick) Tickets On Sale Tonight

Posted on 25 / 01 / 2012

Internal (University of Warwick) tickets to Warwick Economics Summit 2012 go on sale tonight at 6pm.

Please buy early to avoid disappointment. This year's line up is better than ever, with Nobel Laureate George Akerlof, bestselling author Professor Steven Landsburg and Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi among others.

Register on our website for instructions on how to buy.

New Speaker Announcement: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria

Posted on 21 / 01 / 2012

For more information on our speakers click here: http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.co.uk/2012/programme

Tickets here: http://bit.ly/WEStics

Warwick Economics Summit 2012 Bursary Winners announced

Posted on 21 / 01 / 2012

The Warwick Economics Summit team is delighted to announce that 2 bursaries have been awarded in the first year of it's Bursary Scheme.

The scheme was started this year in cooperation with the University of Warwick International Office with the intention of offering students in financial need who have demonstrable academic merit the opportunity to come to the Summit through offering travel, visa and ticket costs for the weekend.

We were delighted to have received a large number of applications from as far as Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Nigeria, India and the United States.

This year's winners are:

Richa Srivastava - Undergraduate in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India

Pulkit Agrawal - Undergraduate in Economics at Harvard University, Massachusetts, United States

Through their personal statements and references from their universities, both demonstrated outstanding academic merit and clear financial need preventing them from otherwise coming to this year's Summit.

We are thrilled that for the first time, the Summit is able to give such an opportunity to gifted and deserving students and look forward to welcoming Richa and Pulkit to the University of Warwick.

HSBC Promotional Event Success

Posted on 21 / 01 / 2012

Warwick Economics Summit held a fantastic free HSBC Promotional Event with David Rennie, Political Editor and Bagehot columnist for The Economist.

Mr Rennie spoke about 'How globalisation risks killing Europe's liberal dream' in the University of Warwick's Ramphal Lecture Theatre. He gave a fascinating insight into Europe should respond to the rise in globalisation.

The evening, including a careers presentation by sponsors HSBC can be viewed here: http://www.livestream.com/warwickeconomicssummit/video?clipId=pla_786207c4-bb33-4239-a6df-6d8b156afd76

Free HSBC Promotional Event: David Rennie, Political Editor and Bagehot columnist for "The Economist"

Posted on 12 / 01 / 2012

The Warwick Economics Summit is fast approaching its eleventh anniversary. To celebrate the remarkable progress the event has made, we are thrilled to be hosting a promotional talk by David Rennie, Bagehot columnist for The Economist, followed by a networking session with HSBC.

We look forward to hearing his talk titled “How global competition risk is killing Europe's liberal dream”.

The event will take place on Thursday 19th January starting at 7.30pm

More information here: http://www.facebook.com/events/224759174273210/

The bursary application deadline now closed

Posted on 11 / 01 / 2012

The deadline for the Summit Bursary applications has now passed. Thank you to all the students who submitted their applications. The Summit team was thrilled to receive applications from as far as Brazil, US, Nigeria, Rwanda and India. The winner of the bursary will be announced by the 20th January.
For more information about our Bursary Scheme please visit http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/bursary

Summit featured on the official University of Warwick website

Posted on 6 / 01 / 2012

Ticketing Update: Issues resolved with WarwickSU website

Posted on 3 / 01 / 2012

We are pleased to announce that the WarwickSU website has resumed sending validation emails to new customers. This means that delegates are now able to complete the purchase of their tickets.

Please click here for ticket types and how to purchase tickets now. http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/tickets

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Happy New Year from all at Warwick Economics Summit.

Ticketing Update: Issues with WarwickSU website

Posted on 1 / 01 / 2012

We have been made aware that the WarwickSU website is failing to send authentication emails for new accounts on their website, and that the ticket purchasing process cannot therefore be completed.

Unfortunately this is beyond our control, however we have been informed that the issue will be resolved by 3 January 2012. Please try to purchase your tickets again after this date.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Please purchase tickets soon - there are less than 10 External Standard tickets remaining and just 1 more External Premium Single ticket left! There is good availability of External Premium Shared.

Happy New Year from Warwick Economics Summit!

Warwick Economics Summit Bursary Scheme Launched!

Posted on 21 / 12 / 2011

Warwick Economics Summit in cooperation with Warwick International Office has launched an academic and needs-based bursary which will cover the ticket and up to £1000 GBP travel and visa expenses to the Warwick Economics Summit 2012!

The ticket for the Warwick Economics Summit will include:

• Entry to all the talks, seminars and networking sessions
• Breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday of the event
• Three course Summit Ball on Saturday evening
• Hotel accommodation on Friday and Saturday night
• All transfers between the hotel and the University throughout the weekend

The bursary scheme is designed to identify and recognise both undergraduate and postgraduate students who demonstrate academic proficiency in their programme of study and who face financial difficulty in covering the ticket and travel costs for attending the Summit.

For more information on how to apply and the deadline please visit http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/bursary!

Future Leaders competition now closed

Posted on 11 / 12 / 2011

Future Leaders competition is now closed.

Many thanks to all students who participated. The winners will be announced in January.

The authors of the best 3 research papers will be presenting their findings at the 2012 Warwick Economics Summit and win the following prizes:

• First Prize: £350
• Second Prize: £100
• Third Prize: £50

All the papers meeting the appropriate academic standards will be published in the 2012 April edition of the undergraduate research journal Reinvention.

Future Leaders deadline- today!

Posted on 10 / 12 / 2011

The deadline for Future Leaders research paper submissions is tonight at midnight.

Many thanks to everyone who submitted their papers already! We have been very pleased to receive couple of dozens of papers from as far as Egypt and India.

The winners of the competition will be announced in January.

Latest Ticketing Update

Posted on 7 / 12 / 2011

There are fewer than 10 External Premium Single tickets remaining! Be sure to buy now to avoid disappointment!

There are more External Premium Shared and External Standard tickets available.

Register now for instructions on how to buy: http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/register

500 Twitter followers!

Posted on 7 / 12 / 2011

We now have 500 Twitter followers!

Do you tweet? Follow us to receive the latest information from Warwick Economics Summit.

New Speaker added to the line up

Posted on 6 / 12 / 2011

We're thrilled to be welcoming John O'Sullivan, Britain Economics Editor at The Economist as one of our speakers next year.

John joined The Economist in 2007 as Economics Correspondent, covering the euro-zone economy, competition policy, financial markets and currencies, and contributing regularly to the Economics Focus column. In 2009 he wrote a special report on the euro area. Prior to joining The Economist, Mr O'Sullivan spent a decade as an analyst in the City of London, most recently at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Between 1992 and 1996, he worked as a researcher in the economics department at London Business School. He holds an MSc in economics from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Important Ticketing Update

Posted on 5 / 12 / 2011

Ticketing update: due to a slight technical issue the system may have been saying that external tickets have sold out. There are still tickets available and the issue has now been resolved - please register on our website for instructions of how to buy tickets. http://www.warwickeconomicssummit.com/2012/register

Amazing response to external tickets going on sale

Posted on 2 / 12 / 2011

There's been an amazing response to External (non-Warwick) tickets going on sale.

In just one day, tickets were sold to students at 20 universities from several countries ranging from Lithuania, Belgium and for the first time, Canada!

We look forward to welcoming delegates from Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, Durham and many more!

Tickets are selling fast - so book now to avoid disappointment!

Register on our website to find out how to purchase tickets.

Externals Tickets on sale now!

Posted on 1 / 12 / 2011

External (non-Warwick) Delegate tickets are now on sale! Make sure to get your tickets early to avoid disappointment! Find out more about the ticket types and prices here.

Register on our website and find the information on how to purchase your ticket here. The detailed 2012 Summit schedule is now available from our website. We look forward to meeting you at the 2012 Summit!

External Tickets Available Soon

Posted on 30 / 11 / 2011

External (non-Warwick) Delegate tickets will go on sale on Thursday, 1st December! Make sure to get your tickets early to avoid disappointment!! Find out more about the ticket types and prices here. The detailed 2012 Summit schedule is now available from our website.

2012 Speakers Announced

Posted on 30 / 11 / 2011

We are aware that many of you have been eagerly waiting the announcement of the speakers for our 2012 event. The Talks team has been working hard to attract an excellent mix of speakers not only well-known in their respective field of interest, but also proficient in delivery of talks.

We are delighted to announce that the 2012 Summit’s speakers include:

• Professor George Akerlof (2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics)
• Professor Steven Landsburg (Bestselling author of “The Armchair Economist” and “More Sex is Safer Sex)
• Rufus H. Yerxa (Deputy Director General, World Trade Organisation)
• Dr Adam Posen (Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee)
• Paul Ormerod (Renowned economist and best-selling author)
• Baroness Vadera (Former government minister for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and the Cabinet Minister)
• Dr Johannes Abeler (Lecturer at the University of Oxford and author of ‘The Power of the Apology’)

Find out more information about all of our speakers please here.

Future Leaders Deadline Extended

Posted on 30 / 11 / 2011

By popular demand we have extended the deadline for the Future Leaders competition until 10th December, so all willing participants can submit their papers in time.

Future Leaders is a competition in cooperation with Reinvention, a journal of undergraduate research inviting students to submit original 2000-5000 word papers on an Economics related subject. The authors of the best 3 research papers will be invited to present their findings at the 2012 Warwick Economics Summit.

In addition, all the papers meeting the appropriate academic standards will be published in an edition of Reinvention.

For more information, please visit Future Leaders.