Dear Student,

With less than a week ago, we are delighted to up-date you on the final preparations for this year’s Warwick Economics Summit. All the speakers have now been confirmed, all the tickets sold out and the team is ready to welcome students from 17 different nations and over 50 universities.

Online Live Streaming
Throughout the Summit weekend, we will be Live Streaming the event and viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions to the speakers through our Live Stream page.
Live streaming begins at 6pm on Friday – visit our official website to follow the coverage.

Warwick Tickets sold out in record-breaking 57 minutes!
The tickets for University of Warwick students sold out in less than an hour on the 25th January. Thank you to all students for their enthusiasm for this year's Summit.

Speakers updates
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.

John Hemming MP, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley has completed the line up for this year's Question Time Panel. 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 Rufus H. Yerxa and Mr Hemming complete the line up for this year's Summit which includes:
• Professor George Akerlof, a Nobel Laureate in Economics
• Professor Steven Landsburg, Bestselling author of "The Armchair Economist"
• 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, 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
• Margaret Doyle, broadcaster and journalist
• Maya Mehta, Lawyer and founder of the Microfinance group at Clifford Chance
• Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica

For more information about the speakers, please visit our speakers page.

The Summit Bursary Scheme Winners
Warwick Economics Summit has for the first time awarded bursaries to students around the world demonstrating academic merit and real financial need preventing them from otherwise attending the Summit.
As announced in our previous newsletter the recipients of this year’s bursary are Pulkit Agrawal from Harvard University and Richa Srvivastava from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Their profiles are now available on our website.

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Whether in person, or online, we look forward to Welcoming you to Warwick this Friday!

Warwick Economics Summit Team

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