We are delighted to invite you to our ‘Brexit: local and devolved government’ conference, in partnership with LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs.

The event will provide an opportunity to assess the impact of Brexit on the existing institutional settlement, exploring ways to promote the civic and economic empowerment of Britain’s cities and regions in the post-Brexit political landscape.

Speakers and panels will include:

8.30am Registration and coffee

9.15am Welcome and introduction

Professor Anand Menon, Director, UK in a Changing Europe, Professor Tony Travers, LSE

9.30am Keynote conversation: Lord Kerslake and Lord Heseltine with Professor Anand Menon 

10:30am  Empowering local government

• Lord Gary Porter – Chair, Local Government Association
• Ivan Annibal – Managing Director, Rose Generation
• Professor Tony Travers – Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, LSE
• Jessica Studdert, Deputy Director, New Local Government Network
• Anthony Painter – Director, Action and Research Centre, RSA (Chair)

11:30am Cities vs everywhere else: the new divide?

• Sir John Curtice – Senior Fellow, The UK in a Changing Europe
• Professor Will Jennings – University of Southampton/Centre for Towns
• Lisa Nandy – Member of Parliament, Wigan
• Jonn Elledge – New Statesman (Chair)

12:30pm Lunch

1:15pm How Brexit may affect Britain’s regions and localities

• Professor Philip McCann – University of Sheffield Management School
• Nikhil Datta – The UK in a Changing Europe
• Professor Alan Harding – Chief Economic Adviser at GMCA and visiting Professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School,
• Sarah O’Connor, Financial Times (Chair)

2:15pm Keynote: Bernard Jenkin MP chaired by Dr Katy Hayward

3:15pm Tea

3:30pm  Devolution Post-Brexit

• Professor Roger Awan-Scully – Cardiff University
• Iain Macwhirter – Columnist for Herald and Sunday Herald
• Dr Katy Hayward – Reader, Queen’s University Belfast
• Professor Dan Wincott – Cardiff University
• Kenny Farquharson – The Times (Chair)

4:30pm  England post Brexit: power to the regions?

• Andrew Carter – Chief Executive, Centre for Cities
• Phillip Blond – Director, ResPublica
• Ed Cox – Director, IPPR North
• Fiona Fletcher-Smith, Executive Director of Development, Enterprise and Environment, GLA
• Professor Tony Travers – Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, LSE (Chair)

Venue: 6th floor, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT

To register please click here.