2026-07-27
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Good afternoon, and a very warm welcome both to our online audience
and to our full-house audience here at the Sheikh Zayed Theater at LSE.
Welcome to this second keynote lecture of a conference that's celebrating
the 10th anniversary of the International Inequalities Institute, and this one is also a public event.
My name is Francisco Ferreira.
I'm the Amartisan Professor of Inequality Studies here at the LSE and Director of the IIII.
On logistics, let me say that this event is being recorded,
and barring technical issues, it will be made available on the IIIs' YouTube channel in due course.
Obviously, we'll have some time for you to ask questions at the end of the talk.
We'll get to that.
But I should warn you that we do have a hard stop at 4.30.
There's another event happening here.
Afterwards.
I think it's the Rolling Stones, and Thomas is a warm-up expert.
So we will have to stop at 4.30.
Now, I am just delighted to welcome Professor Thomas Piketty to deliver this lecture.