EXCELLENCE IN ECONOMIC THINKING
In this high-calibre lecture series the world’s best economic thinkers, practitioners and Nobel Laureates return to the birthplace of modern economics to deliver original keynote lectures of global relevance.
Professor Ogilvie will give her lecture at Panmure House in June 2025. It will be available to view shortly afterwards below.
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie
Professor Ogilvie is the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford. Sheilagh explores the lives of ordinary people in the past and tries to explain how poor economies get richer and improve human well-being. Sheilagh is a Fellow of the British Academy and winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize (2021, 1999), the Stanley Z. Pech Prize (2008), the Anton Gindeley Prize (2004), and the René Kuczynski Prize (2004). She has published on institutions and economic development, guilds, merchants, communities, serfdom, human capital, demography, finance, state capacity, and social capital. She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to research European serfdom.