Better Statistics: Is 2.5% Growth Compatible with Modern Values? - Measuring Success for Business, Society, and the Environment

Date: Wednesday 30 November 2022, 9.40AM
Location: London and online
Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX and online
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COVID-19 and Brexit have already changed the way we live and work, with more change expected as we react to their lingering effects and seek a zero carbon, sustainable future.

With contributions from Industry, academia and the Office for National Statistics – including a keynote introduction from the National Statistician – this one day conference provides a wide-ranging review of progress on measuring these effects and their implications for policy and for business.

The agenda below covers such issues as:
  • AI and the Digital Revolution
  • Sustainability and the influence of Global Warming
  • Measuring wellbeing and welfare

With the final session providing a duologue of Sir John Curtice and Sir Vince Cable to discuss the role of economics in the political debate – or is it the role of politics in the economic debate?
 
Full details including the agenda and registration links are available from the event website
 
Sir Ian Diamond (National Statistician)

Ian Cass (MD, Forum of Private Business)
 
David Freeman (ONS, Labour Force Survey)

Craig Taylor (ONS, Annual Business and Annual Purchasers’ Surveys)
 
Professor Jonathan Portes (Professor of Economics & Public Policy, King’s College)

Josh Martin (Economic Advisor, Bank of England)

Nicola Archer (Director, Savanta – presenting CDEI public opinion tracker)

David Stroll (Chief Technical Officer, Opagio Ltd)
 
Professor Martin Weale (Professor of Economics at King’s Business School)

Ehsan Masood (Journalist and author of ‘GDP: The World’s Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Change’)

Richard Heys (Deputy Chief Economist, ONS)

Jennifer Wallace (Director, Carnegie UK Trust)

Sanjiv Mahajan (Head of Methods and Research Engagement, ONS)

Vicky Pryce (Chief Economics’ Advisor, CEBR)

Sir John Curtice (Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde)

Sir Vince Cable (Author and retired MP)