We look forward to welcoming The Lord Skidelsky FBA as guest speaker at a Whitehall Group lunch on Thursday, 15th May. During lunch (12.30 – 2.30pm) Lord Skidelsky will be discussing “The Future of AI in the Age of Geopolitics”. We are grateful to Farrer & Co. for hosting this event.
Whitehall Group lunch – Thursday, 15th May 2025 (12.30 – 2.30pm)
Venue: Farrer & Co., The Peacock Room, 66 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LH
Speaker: The Lord Robert Skidelsky FBA, Member of the House of Lords / British economic historian
Subject: “The future of AI in the Age of Geopolitics”
Lord Robert Skidelsky is emeritus professor of political economy at Warwick University. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983,1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. His book on the financial crisis – Keynes: The Return of the Master – was published in September 2010. How Much is Enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life, co-written with his son Edward, was published in July 2012. He is also the author of Britain in the 20th Century: A Success? (Vintage, 2014), editor of The Essential Keynes (Penguin Classics, 2015), and co-editor of Who Runs the Economy? (Palgrave, 2016) and Austerity Vs Stimulus (Palgrave, 2017), Money and Government (Allen Lane, 2018). He has recently written and filmed a series of lectures on the History and Philosophy of Economics which will be made available as an open online course in partnership with the Institute for New Economics Thinking.
His latest book Work in the Future: The Automation Revolution was published in in 2020 (Palgrave).
Lord Skidelsky was made a member of the House of Lords in 1991 (he sits on the cross-benches) and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He is chairman of the Governors of Brighton College.
