Be Bold! The Lecture Series for brave thinking
LEH’s new Be Bold! lecture series aims to challenge perceptions on some of the biggest issues facing society today.
Aimed at academically ambitious and curious minds, we’ll hear from thought-provoking guest speakers with wide ranging views on topics that call for us to be intellectually brave as we explore, question and challenge our own thinking.
Open to students from Upper 5 (Year 11) to Upper 6 (Year 13) – and to parents of all year groups, both Junior and Senior School.
Tim Leunig - Thursday 10th October
Our next Be Bold! speaker is international prize winning economist, Tim Leuing.
The Economic Challenges Facing Tomorrow's Graduates
LEH Theatre
Thursday 10th October
6.30pm arrival drinks / 7pm - 8pm lecture
Tickets £5.00
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The economic challenges facing tomorrow's graduates
Tim is an international prize winning economist. He has taught at various UK universities for more than 30 years, and is currently Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE School of Public Policy and an Associate Member of Nuffield College Oxford. He has also held visiting positions in the US and Europe.
Tim was also a senior civil servant for just over a decade, working in five departments. He served as Education Adviser to the Prime Minister, Economic Adviser to two Chancellors, Senior Policy Adviser to six other Cabinet Ministers, as well being Chief Analyst and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Education.
In his time in government he was instrumental in devising the National Funding Formula for schools, the furlough scheme, and the creation of the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset, matching education qualifications with earnings.
Tim is currently Director of Economics at PublicFirst Consulting, and Chief Analyst at Onward thinktank.
Coming Up
Chloe Combi is a former school teacher. She is a columnist for the Times Educational Supplement, and also writes for the Independent, Guardian, Marie Claire and the New Statesman. She’s a regular on TV and radio debates including Channel 4 News, Newsnight, Sky News and Woman’s Hour. An article she wrote on pornography and children in 2012 precipitated a major national debate and she has been quoted by David Cameron in the House of Commons. Her work on child poverty, gangland culture and street violence granted her an invite to No. 10 and she is a consultant on youth issues for the Mayor of London. Her youth project, Write Club, has had interest from UK documentary makers.
Date TBC
Previous Speakers
Matthew Syed
Matthew Syed is an author and highly acclaimed speaker in the field of high performance. He has written seven best-selling books on the subject of mindset and high performance – Bounce, Black Box Thinking, Rebel Ideas, The Greatest, and his celebrated children’s books, What Do You Think?, You Are Awesome and Dare To Be You – and has worked with many leading organisations to build a mindset of continuous improvement. He is also a multi-award-winning journalist for The Times and The Sunday Times and presenter of the popular BBC Radio 4 programme, Sideways, currently in its sixth series. Matthew is a regular contributor to television and radio and, in his previous career, was the England table tennis number one for almost a decade.
To find out more about Matthew’s work, visit: www.matthewsyed.co.uk
Tomiwa Owolade
Tomiwa Owolade is a journalist and author. He has written about identity, religion, culture and current affairs for a wide variety of publications, including the Times, the New Statesman and the Observer. His first book This is Not America was published in June 2023. He has also featured on BBC Radio 4 and Times Radio.
The title of Tomiwa's talk was This is Not America: the case for looking at race in the UK through a British perspective.
Hannah Barnes
Hannah Barnes is an award-winning journalist and author of Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children. Hannah is Associate Editor at the New Statesman and was previously Senior Journalist and Investigations Producer at the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight.
Hannah's talk explored the intricacies of gender identity - one of the most diversive issues in politics today.