As the Warwick University Women’s Badminton 1st team walked into Desso Hall early on Saturday morning, all players exuded an aura of calm. The same cannot be said of the supporters from Coventry Uni who had fashioned loud clapping implements from empty shuttlecock containers. Unbeknownst to all in attendance, the...
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Speaking at day two of the Warwick Economic Summit 2019, Professor Andrea Sironi, chairman of Borsa Italiana (the Italian Stock Exchange), did not shy away from addressing the harsh realities still facing the European Financial system, 10 years after it was thrown into disarray by the European debt crisis in...
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Of the list of notable Warwick Alumni, Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, the current President of Iceland, is close to the top. Having graduated from Warwick in 1990 with a BA in History and Politics, and obtaining a PhD from Oxford, President Jóhannesson returned to his native Iceland to become a historian...
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At 10am on a Saturday morning, the last thing you’d expect to be confronted with is the phrase ‘killer robots’. Despite this, it is the topic Angela Kane, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, chose to so poignantly dissect to kick of day 2 of WES 2019. During her...
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Are you thinking about dropping out of university to become the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or even Mark Zuckerberg? Are you planning on creating the next UK Tech unicorn? Well if this is you, unfortunately, I must be the bearer of bad news. In the UK, 75% of venture...
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You’d be hard pressed to walk around campus this term without stumbling into one of the many projects currently being built by the University. Whether this is a new sports centre, student accommodation or even the new monolithic WMG building that’s not even open to students, it’s clear that the...
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As their company values surge towards USD$1 trillion many of the world’s largest tech firms are seeing profits grow at rates well into the double digits. Such rapid growth is extraordinary and anybody with a background in finance or economics will tell you that you’d expect to see the amount...
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The Apple Pay function on my phone recently broke while I was paying for my lunch, and I was forced to search for my wallet and pull out my debit card. This simple act of putting my card into the machine and punching in my pin felt disturbingly archaic. Apart...
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Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and President of the Asia Society Policy Institute, spoke to Warwick students on Thursday 17 May. In an event hosted by Warwick Economics Summit, Mr Rudd talked to students about the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the G20, and the rise of China in...
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Speaking last Monday at an event hosted by Warwick PPE Society, BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed delivered an insightful expose on the current threats to the global economy. Focusing on both national and global economics issues, Mr Ahmed discussed the threat posed by a synchronised tightening of monetary policy and...
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Whenever people find out I’m Australian, I immediately get asked the same question: ‘Why on earth did you leave the sun and the warmth of Australia to come to university in the English West Midlands, a place that’s neither sunny nor warm?’. And my answer? Well it’s the same as...
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At the Warwick Economics Summit 2018, Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation, discussed the actions currently being undertaken worldwide to combat climate change in the aftermath of the 2015 COP21 Paris Agreement and questioned, more importantly, are we doing enough? The Paris Agreement was about economic compromise, not...
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