Events
Our events bring together world-class business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, academics, practitioners and government officials to share successes and find new solutions to address some of the world’s most intractable development challenges.
Upcoming Events
- Guns and Butter – Public Policy in the Age of Innovation. A conversation with Philippe Aghion, 2025 Nobel Laureate of Economics
The Wheeler Institute is delighted to welcome Philippe Aghion, recent Nobel Laureate and one of the world’s foremost thinkers on innovation-led economic growth, to London Business School. The event will take place on February 9, 2026, and it will be the inaugural event of a limited series of conversations on Public Policy in the Age…
Past Events
- Democratising Corporate Governance: How to Implement Shareholder Assemblies
For over half a century, the doctrine of shareholder primacy has offered a simple moral compass for corporate executives: make as much money as possible. Popularised by Milton Friedman in his seminal 1970 New York Times article, the theory posits that by maximising profits within the bounds of law and custom, companies maximise social welfare.… - Europe, Greece, and Geopolitics in a Fragmenting World with George A. Papandreou
The Wheeler Institute had the pleasure of welcoming the former prime minister of Greece and current member of parliament, George A. Papandreou. Leveraging on his experience serving in public office and in diplomacy, Papandreou’s insights were timely given the current state of the world in which many countries seem to be more divided than they… - Our Dollar, Your Problem: Kenneth Rogoff at London Business School
The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development is honoured to welcome Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University to London Business School on the upcoming January 28, 2026. The lecture and conversation will be centred on his highly anticipated new book Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven… - AI for Africa: Harnessing AI for jobs, growth and investment
Artificial intelligence is reshaping labour markets worldwide. For African economies, where more than 20 million young people will enter the workforce each year between now and 2050, the stakes are especially high. The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development, DFS Lab, and the LBS Data Science and AI Initiative recently held a panel discussion that… - Leadership with Purpose in a Time of Transformation: A Conversation with the President of Iceland
London Business School was honoured to welcome President of Iceland, Halla Tómasdóttir, for a conversation on what leadership with purpose means today. Drawing on her career spanning both the private and public sectors, she argues that in a world facing a cross-sector and cross-generation trust crisis, leadership can no longer be driven from a single… - ISB joins Dharma Life and the Wheeler Institute to establish DL Labs at Hyderabad Campus
The Wheeler Institute and London Business School (LBS) are pleased to announce a major milestone in the evolution of Dharmalife (DL) Labs. The Indian School of Business (ISB) has formally joined DL Labs through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dharmalife and the Wheeler Institute to establish DL Labs at ISB’s Hyderabad…