Adam Smith Lecture Series with The Right Hon. The Baroness Moyo of Knightsbridge

Описание: 2026 marks a milestone year for Panmure House as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. To inaugurate a year-long programme of commemorative events, we were honoured to welcome The Right Honourable The Baroness Moyo of Knightsbridge to deliver the opening lecture of the Adam Smith Lecture Series for 2026.

Baroness Moyo’s lecture examined the relevance of Smith’s ideas in relation to four of today’s most pressing global challenges:
🔸Artificial intelligence
🔸Climate change
🔸The energy transition
🔸Deglobalisation and the expanding role of government.

About the Adam Smith Lecture Series
Supported by Baillie Gifford, The Adam Smith Lecture Series invites the world’s best economic thinkers, practitioners and Nobel Laureates to return to the birthplace of modern economics to deliver original keynote lectures of global relevance.

About the Speaker
Baroness Moyo is a member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords. She is a principal of Versaca Investments. For over a decade, she has served on the board of directors of many large, global, complex corporations.

She sits on several corporate boards, including Chevron, Condé Nast, and Starbucks, along with non-corporate boards like the Economic Club of New York, National Geographic Society, and Oxford University Endowment.

Baroness Moyo has authored five bestselling books on the global macroeconomy and geopolitics. She holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University and a master’s degree from Harvard University. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.