Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
OK, good afternoon, everybody.
Fantastic to see such a kind of some great attendance for this event this afternoon.
On the LSE Festival event, are universities still relevant?
And I personally am hoping that the answer to that is yes.
My name is Professor Emma McCoy,
and I am the Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education here at LSE.
It's fantastic to see you all at this event, both those of you here in person,
and I know that we have an online audience as well.
The LSE Festival this year is Visions for the Future,
taking place from Monday the 16th to Saturday the 21st of June.
And there's a whole series of events exploring the threats and opportunities of the near and distant future and what a better world could look like.
So in addition to being Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education here at LSE,
I'm also a Professor of Statistics here at LSE.
And I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Shamilia Mukesheva, Professor Aaron Reeves,
Dr. Boris Wallbaum and Lord David Willetts to both our online audiences and the audience here in the room.
So I'm going to do very brief kind of bios of our panel today,
and then we'll come to some questions.
So Shamilia is an LSE fellow in public policy at LSE.