The road to the bawbee – currency options for an independent Scotland

When

Thursday 2 December 2021
18:30 - 20:00

Cost

Free

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Speakers

  • Fellowship profile image of Professor Sir John Kay

    Professor Sir John Kay FRSE

    Visiting Professor, The London School of Economics and Political Science

    Professor Sir John Kay FRSE is one of Britain’s leading economists. His work is centred on the relationships between economics, finance and business. His career has spanned academic work and think tanks, business schools, company directorships, consultancies and investment companies. John has been a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford since 1970 and has held chairs at London Business School, the University of Oxford, and the LSE. He is the author of many books – most recently Radical Uncertainty, jointly written with Mervyn King, and Greed is Dead, co-authored with Paul Collier, published in 2020.

  • Fellowship profile image of Professor Nicola McEwen

    Professor Nicola McEwen FRSE

    Professor of Public Policy and Governance, University of Glasgow

    Nicola McEwen is Professor of Territorial Politics at the University of Edinburgh and Senior Research Fellow with the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe. She was founding Co-Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change and remains a CCC Fellow. Nicola specialises in nationalism, devolution and intergovernmental relations, with a focus on Scotland and the UK in comparative perspective. Her current research examines the impact of Brexit on UK devolution and the Union, and the Scottish independence project. Among her recent publications is a co-edited e-book, Scotland’s New Choice: Independence after Brexit (Centre on Constitutional Change, 2021).

  • Fellowship profile image of Professor Graeme Roy

    Professor Graeme Roy FRSE

    Vice Principal and Head of College (Social Sciences College Senior Management), University of Glasgow

    Graeme Roy is Dean of External Engagement and Deputy Head of College in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. A Professor of Economics he is also Chair of the Scottish Fiscal Commission, Scotland’s independent economic and fiscal forecasting body. He is a former Senior Civil Servant in the Scottish Government and head of the First Minister’s Policy Unit. He is a past Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute at the University of Strathclyde. He has been a special adviser to the Scottish Parliament’s Economy Committee.

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