1. finance

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26*, 27, 28 and 29* (* international students only)
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
11.00 - 13.00
13:15
Presidents’ Meeting
@ Rosebery Halls. Check in for all begins at 9:30
Travel from Rosebery to The Crystal
14.30 - 16.15
Tour of the Siemens Crystal
16.15 - 17.00
Travel from The Crystal to Old Street Tube Station
17:15 - 18.45
Dinner at Fish Central
19.00 - 21.00
Legislative Meeting
19.00
@ Royal Victoria Dock, E16 1GB
@ LSE
Screening of B. Lietaer’s video, recommended for his talk @ Rosebery
Friday, 27th
‘Finance: Society and Stability’
08.00 - 08.50
Breakfast (at accommodation)
08.50 - 09.30
Travel from Rosebery to LSE
09.30 - 10.15
Our Planet: An Update
10.15 - 10.30
Break
10.30 - 11.20
What is the Financial System? - A Decomposition
11.20 - 12.15
Complexity and the Stability of Money
12.15 - 13.15
Lunch with FoodforAll
13.15 - 14.15
&
14.30 - 15.30
Parallel Workshops. Attend two workshops out of those offered. Each
lasts 1 hour, with a 15 minute break in between.
Maria Sharmina
James Meadway
Bernard Lietaer
Banks and Civil
Society
A Sovereign
Monetary
System
Complementary
Currencies
Ethex: A
Positive
Lending
Plaform
Calvin Benedict
Ben Dyson
Bernard Lietaer
Lisa Ashford
How far have post-crash financial regulations contributed to
ecological sustainability aims?
Andrew Voysey (2nd session only)
15:30 - 16:00
Break
16.00 - 17.00
When Will We Know our Financial System is Working?
17.00 - 18.00
Learning Circles Open Space
18.30 - 20.00
Dinner at My Old Dutch
Saturday, 28th
‘Financing Sustainability’
08.00 - 08.50
Breakfast
08.50 - 09.30
Travel from Rosebery Halls to LSE
09:30 - 10.30
Financing a Sustainable Future
10.30 - 10.45
Break
10.45 - 11.25
Green Bonds
11.25 - 12.05
Open Space
12.05 - 12.45
Personal Finance
12.45 - 13.45
Lunch with Foodcycle
13.45 - 14.35
The Role of Government
14.45 - 15.30
The Collective Psychology of Money
15.35 - 16.00
Connecting Ideas
16.00 - 17.00
Project Fair
17.00 - 18.30
How to Run Your Chapter
18.45 - 19.15
Travel from LSE to Rosebery Halls
19.15 +
Michael Mainelli
Simon Zadek
Sean Kidney
Marloes Nicholls
Sam Fankhauser
Bernard Lietaer
Dinner at Rosebery from the People’s Supermarket and Closing Party
Sunday, 29th
09:00 - 14:00
10.30 - 16.00
Management Learning Circle 10:30 13:00
@ LSE’s 6th Floor Cafe
Outings:
Presidents’ Meeting
@ Rosebery Halls
2. The Kensington Museums
1. Tour of London’s Southbank
3. Camley Street Natural Park
Lisa Ashford
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Lisa has over fifteen years experience in energy
and environmental markets and has a growing
knowledge of crowdfunding and social enterprise.
She is the CEO and Director of Ethex, a platform
enabling investments with positive social or
environmental benefits.
Calvin Benedict
As a Senior Researcher at CCP Research Foundation UK,
Calvin’s work has supported ethical and cultural
initiatives related to “Conduct, Culture, People” within
large organisations.
Ben Dyson
Founder of research and campaign group Positive
Money, UK, Ben has committed himself to raising
awareness of flaws in our financial systems.
“The Bank of England recently published a paper explaining
how banks create 97% of the money we use, in the form of
electronic bank deposits, whenever they make new loans.
The evidence implies that this process of money creation is
linked to rising inequality and poverty, high personal and
household debt, economic instability, and the significant
power and influence of the banking sector over the
democratic process. Fundamental reforms of the process of
money creation will be needed if we are to avoid a future
financial crisis”.
Sam Frankhauser
Co-Director of the Grantham Research Institute on
Climate Change and the Environment, Sam’s researches
the economics of adaptation to climate change and
climate finance, including carbon markets.
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Sean Kidney
CEO and co-founder of the Climate Bonds
Initiative, Sean is active in investor engagement;
which his Climate Bonds organisation focussing on
mobilising the $100 trillion bond market for
climate change solutions.
Bernard Lietaer
Professor at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France
and Board Member of Club of Rome, Bernard is an
international leading academic on currency and
advocates the upgrading of the monetary system to
overcome its current incompatibility to sustainability.
Michael Mainelli
Co-Founder of Z/Yen and Emeritus Gesham
Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, UK,
Michael works emphasises the proper functioning
of markets in realising societal goals.
James Meadway
Senior economist at NEF, James’ recent work
largely focuses on developing responses to the
recession and austerity. With his team, he
develops a model to understand how the
interaction of finance and the environment
shape economic outcomes.
Marloes Nicholls
Co-Founder of the Move your Money UK campaign, and
Programme Manager of Meteos, UK, Marloes’
engagements aims at empowering citizens and
improving communication between actors in finance,
health and energy sectors.
Maria Sharmina
Research Fellow at The Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research, UK, Maria is currently focussed on
developing a systematic review assessing energy
consumption and emissions of international trade.
Andrew Voysey
Andrew leads the Finance Sector team under their
Business Platform Portfolio at the Cambridge Institute
for Sustainability Leadership’s, which brings together
business, government and academia to find solutions to
critical sustainability challenges.
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Simon Zadek
Co-Director of the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of
a Sustainable Financial System, Simon’s work
focuses on the sustainable transformation of
finance through economic policy and business
strategy.
The Spring Meeting Organising Team
Anjali Badloe, MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change
Connor Brooks, BSc Environmental Policy with Economics
Nasir Bukar Ibrahim, BSc Environmental Policy with Economics
Nathanael Didillon, BSc Environmental Policy with Economics
Pierre Dupuis, BSc Environmental Policy with Economics
Shino Hirasaki, BSc Environmental Policy with Economics
Pierre-Louis Lostis, BSc Geography and Economics
Oliver Lysaght, BSc Environment and Development
Johanna Saecker, MSc International Political Economy
Moritz Schwarz, BSc Environmental Policy with Economics
Anjli Srivastava, BSc Environment and Development
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