2026-02-16
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Hello everyone and welcome to the London School of Economics.
My name is Silvana Tanredo.
I'm a Professor of Economics here at the LSE and I'm delighted to welcome you to the third Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture this year.
The lectures are named in honour of the brilliant economist Lionel Robbins who was a professor at the LSE and whose contributions left a profound mark in the school and more broadly in the economics profession.
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to the members of the Robbins family who are with us this evening,
Lionel's grandson James and great grandson Henry.
And we're sorry to miss St.
John's own Lionel Robin's daughter, who sadly passed away last year.
As many of you know,
the Lionel Robin's lectures this year are based around Professor Alan Manning's recent book,
Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How to Make it Better.
I'm very pleased to welcome Alan Manning, who will complete his lecture trilogy today.
Alan Manning is a professor of economics at the LSE and is the director of the labor economics program at the Center for Economic Performance also at the LSE.
Alan is the former head of the economics department.
Previously he served as member of the NHS pay review.
and more recently he was the chair of the Migration Advisory Committee here in the UK.
Alan is a star academic in the field of labour economics,
known amongst other contributions for his path-breaking work on monopsony power in labour markets.