Clare Distinguished Lecture in Economics and Public Policy

The Clare Distinguished Lecture in Economics and Public Policy first took place in 2006. Each year, the College asks a distinguished visitor to deliver a lecture on a topic of their choice. The aim of the lecture is to encourage the interface between academia and business/public life. The lecture is open to the Collegiate Cambridge community.
The Clare Distinguished Lecture in Economics and Public Policy is made possible by The Smithers & Co. Charity and Andrew Smithers (Clare, 1959).

Dame Colette Bowe
Dame Colette Bowe

Dame Francis Cairncross
Dame Francis Cairncross
16 February 2023
'In Praise of Economics'
Lecturer: Dame Colette Bowe DBE, a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee and former chair of the UK Banking Standards Board.
Discussant: Dame Francis Cairncross DBE, British economist, journalist and academic and former Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.
To watch the lecture, click here.

Joel Mokyr
Joel Mokyr

Gareth Austin
Gareth Austin
28 October 2019
'The Holy Land of Industrialism' Rethinking the Industrial Revolution'
Lecturer: Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Discussant: Professor Gareth Austin, Professor of Economic History, Fellow of King's College.
To listen to the lecture, click here.
To look at the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
1 March 2018
‘Managing Yale’s Endowment’
Speaker: Dr David F Swensen, Chief Investment Officer, Yale University
Discussant: Dr David Chambers, CEAM Academic Director Reader in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School
Also generously sponsored by Invesco
To listen to the lecture, click here.

David Swensen
David Swensen

Dr David Chambers
Dr David Chambers

Lord King
Lord King

Dr Martin Weale CBE
Dr Martin Weale CBE
13 March 2017
'Resetting the Global Economy'
Speaker: Lord King, former Governor of the Bank of England
Discussant: Dr Martin Weale CBE, former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and Professor of Political Economy at King’s College London
3 December 2014
'Financial Development and Policy: A view from the front lines'
Speaker: Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Discussant: Professor Masaaki Shirakawa, a former Governor of the Bank of Japan

Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Rajan

Professor Masaaki Shirakawa
Professor Masaaki Shirakawa

Professor Barry Eichengreen
Professor Barry Eichengreen

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti
28 February 2013
‘Renminbi Internationalization: Good for China? Bad for us?’
Speaker: Professor Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Cambridge
For a review of the lecture, click here.
18 February 2011
‘Creating a stable financial system: Is the reform programme sufficiently radical?’
Speaker: Lord Turner, Chairman, Financial Services Authority
Discussant: Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor, Bank of England
To view the slides from the lecture, click here.
To view the transcript from the lecture, click here.

Lord Turner
Lord Turner

Paul Tucker
Paul Tucker

Jean-Claude Trichet
Jean-Claude Trichet

Professor Willem Buiter
Professor Willem Buiter
10 December 2009
'Systematic Risk'
Speaker: Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank
Discussant: Professor Willem Buiter, London School of Economics and Political Science
14 May 2008
‘A policy framework for Climate Change and Sustainable Development: economic analysis and beyond’
Speaker: Mohan Munasinghe, Vice Chair, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Discussant: David Henderson CMG, Visiting Professor, Westminster Business School

Mohan Munasinghe
Mohan Munasinghe

David Henderson CMG
David Henderson CMG

Haruhiko Kuroda
Haruhiko Kuroda
1 February 2007
‘The Development of China and India – Prospects and Problems’
Speaker: Haruhiko Kuroda, President, Asian Development Bank
Discussant: Dr Andrea Boltho, University of Oxford
31 January 2006
'Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development'
Speaker: Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, former Chief Economist at the World Bank
Discussant: Martin Wolf CBE, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz
Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz

Martin Wolf CBE
Martin Wolf CBE