Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2024

The Global Priorities Institute and the Oxford Department of Economics is pleased to announce the Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2024, delivered by Daron Acemoglu (MIT Economics). Tickets to this event are available to watch the lecture in-person and live online.

For meetings with the speaker on 1st May please email gpi-office@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

3:30pm - 5pm, Thursday 16th May 2024.

Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, OX1 3UQ

This event will be followed by a drinks reception for in-person attendees.

Please click HERE to register for this event

Daron Acemoglu

MIT Economics

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor of Economics at MIT and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal awarded to economists under forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. In 2019 he was named Institute Professor, MIT’s highest faculty honor. In 2024, Acemoglu was awarded the Sanjaya Lall Professorship at the University of Oxford.

In memory of Professor Sir Tony Atkinson.

The Atkinson Memorial Lecture is an annual distinguished lecture series established in 2018 in memory of Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, jointly by the Global Priorities Institute (GPI) and the Department of Economics. The aim is to encourage research among academic economists on topics related to global prioritisation - using evidence and reason to figure out the most effective ways to improve the world.

Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2024