The panel will present a range of perspectives on risk and its relationship to social innovation including a sociological discussionon the decline of social trust and the opportunity offered bysocial entrepreneurship to address this deficit. A differentconceptualisation of risk will also be presented that considers an economist’s perspective on risk and social finance.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
11:30 - 13:00, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerDirector, ESRC Risk Network, University of KentPeter Taylor-Gooby is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent and Chair of the British Academy New Paradigms in Public Policy Programme. He also chairs the HEFCE Research Excellence Framework Social Work and Social Policy and Administration Panel. He is a Fellow of the British Academy…
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SpeakerFellow in Economics, St Hugh's College, University of OxfordJeremy Large does research in the field of finance called market microstructure, which studies the details of how offers to trade are made and accepted on financial exchanges. In addition to doing research in Oxford, he also lectures on Financial Econometrics (MFE) and Market Microstructure in the Saïd…
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SpeakerDirector, The Young FoundationMulgan obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford and a Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster. He was also a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, trained as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka and worked for a spell during the 1980s as a van driver…
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SpeakerProfessor, All Souls College, University of OxfordAvner Offer is an Economic historian who currently holds the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and of the British Academy. He specializes in international political economy, law, the First World War and land…