SOAS Economics

25/06/2026

📌 Join us for Climate Action Week #2026 with SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for the event:

🏦 Public Development Banking for the Most Vulnerable Nations: Scaling Up Affordable Capital and Boosting Resilience across the V20 🌍

Speakers:
🎤 Dr Diana Barrowclough, Senior Economist at UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
🎤 Carl Bernadac, Head of Research, Agence Française de Développement
🎤 Javier Díaz Fajardo, Special Envoy for Finance in Common and former CEO of Bancoldex
🎤 Dr Murtaza Syed, Head of Ecosystem in the Economics Department at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
🎤 Dr Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London

ROOM: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

Info 🔗 https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/public-development-banking-most-vulnerable-nations-scaling-affordable-capital-and

22/06/2026

🚀 Afternoon session at SOAS University of London DLD

📚🏭 Backgrounds 1: History of Industrial Policy – Lecture

🎤 With Ha-Joon Chang

💬 Revisiting the historical foundations of industrial policy and its role in shaping economic development across countries and regions.

22/06/2026

📌 Join us for Climate Action Week #2026 with SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for the event:

🏦 Public Development Banking for the Most Vulnerable Nations: Scaling Up Affordable Capital and Boosting Resilience across the V20 🌍

Speakers:

🎤 Dr Diana Barrowclough, Senior Economist at UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
🎤 Carl Bernadac, Head of Research, Agence Française de Développement
🎤 Javier Díaz Fajardo, Special Envoy for Finance in Common and former CEO of Bancoldex
🎤 Dr Murtaza Syed, Head of Ecosystem in the Economics Department at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
🎤 Dr Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London

Info 🔗 https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/public-development-banking-most-vulnerable-nations-scaling-affordable-capital-and

22/06/2026

📌 Join us at SOAS University of London for an event with Ibrahima Cheikh Diong and Director Prof :

From Promise to Practice: The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage and What It Means for Vulnerable Developing Countries 🌍

Info 🔗 https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/promise-practice-fund-responding-loss-and-damage-and-what-it-means-vulnerable

19/06/2026

🌎 How is the corporate control of the South American soya supply chain linked to the region's political turn towards the right?

How is the corporate control of the South American soya supply chain linked to the region's political turn towards the right?

📚 Some suggestions in April's Meridional, at Phenomenal World from our SOAS University of London Lecturer Fernando Rugitsky

'The political constituency represented by this multitude of farmers, connected to the most dynamic sector of the region’s economies, could in principle have been mobilized against the oligopsony, demanding a different organization of the supply chain. But instead, subordinated rural groups, suspicious of the center-left governments that presided over the consolidation of the trading oligopsony, turned sharply to the right. In Brazil, these radicalized soy farmers rose through the ranks of state-level soy producer associations to hegemonize rural politics for the country as a whole, providing Bolsonaro with a key electoral base. This marked the birth of what Caio Pompeia calls agri-bolsonarismo.

A similar development can be identified in Argentina. In 2008, when the government of Cristina Kirchner moved to increase taxes on the exports of soy, it was resoundingly defeated by a large coalition in a struggle that is now referred to as the crisis del campo, which Diana Córdoba and her co-authors described as a “rural protest of unprecedented scale in which disparate and historically fractured rural interests united in a common protest that lasted for months.”'

Read it here (also available in Portuguese and Spanish): https://lnkd.in/exawyPc8

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Read here 🔗 https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/soy-republics/

17/06/2026

📌 Join us for London Climate Action Week #2026 with SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, Finance in Common, and the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) for the event:

📈 Financing the : Public Development Banks and Action 🌍📊

Speakers:

🎤 Stephany Griffith-Jones, Professor in Practice for Financing Sustainable Development, SOAS University of London

🎤 Meral Murathan, Executive Vice President, Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası

🎤 Rémy Rioux, President of Finance in Common

🎤 Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London (moderator)

Info and registration 🔗 https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/financing-future-public-development-banks-and-climate-action

16/06/2026

The Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) announces the STOREP Grants 2026, to support new groundbreaking economic research!

We invite STOREP members to submit small-scale projects that explore one or more of the following themes:

➡️History of Political Economy & Economic Thought – Unravel the evolution of economic ideas and their impact on the present.

➡️Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Approaches – Bring different perspectives by blending insights from other disciplines.

➡️Heterodox Economic Theories – Challenge conventional wisdom and introduce innovative economic perspectives.

A dedicated selection committee will evaluate each proposal based on academic quality and significance. Up to two outstanding projects will be awarded a grant of up to €2,000 each.

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2026

Don’t miss this chance! Apply today! ✨

https://www.storep.org/wp/storep-grants-2026/

16/06/2026

12/06/2026

📌 Join us for London Climate Action Week 2026 with SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and GIZ for the event:

📈 Sovereign Solutions: Accelerating Tokenised Bonds for Sustainable Development and Climate Impact 🌍📊

Speakers:

🎤 Marianne Haahr, Executive Director of the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits & Senior Fellow at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance

🎤 Dr Yuen Lo, Lecturer in Economics at London Metropolitan University & Senior Fellow at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance

🎤 Professor Sean Kidney, CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative and Professor in Practice of Sustainable Finance at SOAS

🎤 Dr Victor Murinde, AXA Professor in Global Finance at the SOAS School of Finance and Management

🎤 Dr Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London.

Info and registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/3r5emu6e

26/05/2026

📌 Join us at SOAS University of London for Amazon Dialogues 2026: Economics, 🌳 and Global ⚖️🌎

🎤 Organised in collaboration with the Embassy of in 🇧🇷

Info and registration 🔗 https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/amazon-dialogues-2026-economics-deforestation-global-justice