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12 Jun 2024, 18:00 – 19:30

New Economic Thinking for a New Industrial Strategy

The launch of the Strategic Economics Alliance

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Carolina Alves

Associate Professor in Economics

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

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Mariana Mazzucato

Founding Director and Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)

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Professor Mazzucato is the author of four highly-acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018), Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2021) and The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023). 

She advises policymakers around the world on innovation-led, inclusive and sustainable growth. Her current roles include being Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Co-Chair on the Council on Urban Initiatives, and a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council.

Leslie Johnston

Chief Executive Officer

Laudes Foundation

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Leslie has over 25 years of management experience across business, entrepreneurship, development, and philanthropy. Previously, she headed C&A Foundation as its first Executive Director, repositioning it as a global catalyst to make fashion a force for good. She served as Executive Director of the Argidius Foundation, Deputy Director for TechnoServe in Africa and a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.

Leslie lives in Zug, Switzerland with her husband and two teenage sons.

Bogolo Joy Kenewendo

Global economist

Kenewendo Advisory

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Erika Kraemer-Mbula

Professor of Economics

University of Johannesburg

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UCL IIPP

IIPPForum@ucl.ac.uk

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