Special Events

In addition to our Sen Club and Research programmes, we put up various special events throughout the academic year, ranging from economic debates and collaborations with other societies and external institutions to our signature Economics Symposium and Policy Competition.

Our annual themed Economics Symposium involves a series of panels and standalone speeches by esteemed economists, policy professionals, and government officials on a particular pertinent socioeconomic issue. In 2021, 900+ people in total attended it and 15 speakers from some of the most prominent institutions in the UK and the US participated in it.

Our Economic Policy Competition invites students to discuss, research, and propose solutions to important policy issues within economics. Last year, 40 undergraduate teams from across the world, including the UK, China, Russia, and India, competed to design cost-effective policies to mitigate the economic and public health aftermath of a future pandemic in a country of their choice and present their findings in a 1000-word document.

In the upcoming academic year, we envisage the following additions to our Special Events programme:

Intellectual Diversity

We aspire to expand the number of perspectives debated and considered at our events by hosting speakers from a wider range of professional and regional backgrounds at the Economics Symposium and inviting graduates and postgraduates to present their ideas in our Economic Policy Competition.

Hybrid Format

Remembering the success of hosting Economics Society event online, we plan to retain some events on Zoom to ensure that a greater number of speakers could be available to answer questions from our members both during and outside the Economics Symposium.

Leveraging Partnerships

With social events receiving a green light from the government, we aim to reintroduce social events and coordinate a members-only visit to the Bank of England and other London sites of proven significance to the economics profession.

Policy Debates

We want to partner with nationality-based societies at the LSE to invite prominent economists from around the world to engage in an interdisciplinary discussion of the most pertinent economic policy issues to expose our members to a more diverse range of perspectives and promote diversity and inclusion.