WES 2021 Round-Up

Did you miss the Warwick Economics Summit this year? Now is your chance to catch up on our talks from the weekend.

The Warwick Economics Summit (WES) is the largest student-run economics summit in Europe. Now having run for nearly two decades, the Summit has evolved in form and stature into a truly international forum where talented students from various universities listen to some of the world's most revered and inspirational speakers on a wide range of topics.

Held virtually for the first time this year, we featured talks from the likes of Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, David Davis, former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, as well as Queen Rania of Jordan amongst a line up of 40+ speakers.

Check out the highlights from WES2021 below:

Ursula von der Leyen on the Future of European International Relations

Queen Rania of Jordan on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic

David Davis on Brexit

Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism

Speakers in Conversation: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Tanzila Khan

José Ramos-Horta on Global Challenges, Leadership & Partnership

Antoinette Monsio Sayeh on the Global Economic Outlook and Policy Priorities

Speakers in Conversation - Mary Robinson and Kehkashan Basu

Muhammad Yunus on Post-Corona Reconstruction Programme

Zsuszanna Jakab on Public Health Policies In The Era of Covid-19