International Economics Week 2011
14-19 November 2011
International Economics Week 2011 held on the 14-19 November, one of
TeamBEST’s key academic events this year, was a great success. The nine talks
from high-profile speakers on a range of issues regarding international economics, gave students a
real insight into economics from an alternative perspective to their normal experience in a
traditional lecture.
The events were extremely popular with over 250 students, from a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, who attended the talks which included:-
- Challenges for Monetary Policy (Simon Price - Bank of England)
- Global Markets (Katharine Banbury - Nomura)
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International Trade Negotiations (Euan MacMillan - DFID) - A Game of Catch-Up (John O’Sullivan - The Economist)
- Money, Debt and the New World Order (Philip Coggan - The Economist)
- Tackling Poverty in Uganda through Social Enterprise (Simon Graffy - Volunteer Uganda)
- State of the UK Economy (Hugh Pym - BBC)
- Lessons learnt from the Great Recession (Colin Lawson - University of Bath)
- The Euro Crisis (Bruce Morley - University of Bath)
Hugh Pym, BBC correspondent, informed the TeamBEST committee that he really enjoyed hearing the viewpoints of students and University of Bath academics on stories that he regularly reports on.
Tom Barrett, a first year undergraduate Economist commented on his feelings of the event, “ International Economics Week was an extremely useful experience as it gave a real world and current perspective on what we learn in lectures. I found the talk by DFID (Department for International Development) interesting as it explained how the theory surrounding international trade actually translates into the real world. I also enjoyed the talk given by Hugh Pym, the BBC's chief economics correspondent, on the current state of the British economy. It gave me a chance to ask questions that are never answered by the media and gain an insight into one of the countries most informed minds on the current state of the British economy.”
TeamBEST would like to thank Nomura for their support of International Economics Week 2011.
