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
- How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier
The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development with support from Africa Business Club at the London Business School, welcomes Joe Studwell, Author and Development Economist at Africa Urban Lab and Overseas Development Institute, for a conversation about his book, How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier, longlisted for the 2026… - Messy Jobs: The Work that AI Cannot Reach, with Luis Garicano
The Data Science & AI Initiative at LBS, in collaboration with the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development, is delighted to welcome Luis Garicano, Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics, for a fireside chat marking the launch of his new book, Messy Jobs: The Work that AI Cannot Reach, co-authored with…
Past Events
- AI for Education and the Future of Work in Low-Income Contexts
Opening Doors at the Last Mile Talent, determination, and drive exist everywhere, but opportunity does not. Team4Tech was built to close that gap by working through community-based organizations to open doors for learners who are too often the last to be reached. What started as a social impact program inside Intel has since grown into… - Every Last Girl: A Journey to Educate India’s Forgotten Daughters
In an inspirational session hosted by the Wheeler Institute with the support of the LBS Social Impact Club, Safeena Husain shared the blueprint behind one of India’s most expansive educational movements. Speaking with Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing, Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship and Co-Academic Director of the Wheeler Institute at London Business… - INDspire Speaker Series: Shri Piyush Goyal (Minister of Commerce and Industry of India)
At London Business, Shri Piyush Goyal opened with a debt of gratitude to an LBS professor, Sumantra Ghoshal. The two met in December 1999, on a seven-day train journey (Palace on Wheels) across Rajasthan organised for faculty from the world’s leading business schools. Goyal, then an investment banker, was one of the few non-academics on… - INDspire Speaker Series: Shri Sanjay Malhotra (Governor of Reserve Bank of India)
In a conversation at London Business School, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra returned repeatedly to one idea: trust. He described it as fundamental to institutions, arguing that resilience depends not only on policy frameworks, but on whether people believe in the institutions managing them. Across a wide-ranging discussion on inflation, geopolitical shocks,… - Journeys with Saad Mohseni: Building Media, Markets and Meaning in Afghanistan
Some lives are shaped by the country one comes from. Saad Mohseni’s was shaped by the countries he did not. Born in London in 1966 to an Afghan diplomat and his wife, he turned three in Damascus, midway through his parents’ drive from England to Kabul. By the time he reached secondary school the family… - Between Trust and Trade: on Informal Credit Networks in India
If you were asked where people borrow from for their daily consumption needs, credit cards from mega-banks seem the obvious answer. However, across the developing world where brick-and-mortar banks are often inaccessible, individuals resort to local alternatives: ‘Kiranas’ or small grocery stores. No credit scores. No collateral. No paperwork. Just a shopkeeper’s quick judgment call,…