🚀 #SOAS DLD is delighted to announce the next Future Leaders Programme: 💡 Designing for #Development: How collaboration among architects, urban planners and political economists can inform a rethinking of development strategies 🔗 info & application ⬇️ tinyurl.com/y8mvtvb6

✨Applications for the next @soas-dld.bsky.social Future Leaders Programme, '𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙩 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙨', close on Monday (20th July). ➡️For more info & to submit your application, visit: tinyurl.com/bdtndkw4

✨Applications are open for the next @soas-dld.bsky.social Future Leaders Programme, '𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙩 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙨'. ➡️For more info & to apply, visit: tinyurl.com/bdtndkw4 📅Date: 14 -18 Sep, 2026 📍London 📌Deadline: 20 July 2026

🚀 Final Day of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 14 🧠📊 Group Work Part III: Presentations 🎤 💬 Participants presented their policy proposals, drawing on the ideas and debates developed throughout the programme to address real-world development challenges.

🚀 Afternoon session at @SOAS DLD #FLP14 🌐🏭 Restructuring of Global Value Chains 🎤 With Richard Kozul-Wright, Yin Shao Loong & Christopher Cramer 💬 Discussing how shifting global value chains create new opportunities and challenges for industrialisation in the Global South.

🚀 Continuing Day 4 at #FLP14 🤖💻 Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, and Industrial Policy: Sectoral Applications and Implications 🎤 With José Miguel Ahumada, Jostein Hauge & Verena Hitner 💬

🚀 Day 4 of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 14 ♻️⚡ Sustainability and Industrial Policy: Energy, Minerals, and Industrial Decarbonisation 🎤 With Antonio Andreoni, Yin Shao Loong & Pamela Mondliwa 💬 Exploring how industrial policy can accelerate the green transition.

🚀 Closing Day 3 of @SOAS DLD #FLP14 🛠️⚙️ New Policy Tools and Alignment with Other Related Policies 🎤 With João Silva, Verena Hitner & Isabel Estevez

🚀 Afternoon session at #FLP14 🌍🤝 The Changing Global Policy Environment: Policy Space and South-South Cooperation 🎤 With Yin Shao Loong, Andrés Arauz, Yemi Dipeolu & Amir Lebdioui

🚀 Day 3 of @SOAS DLD Future Leaders Programme 14 📊🏭 Practical Policy Challenges Part 2: Implementation and ‘Policy Learning’ through Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) 🎤 With Antonio Andreoni, João Silva & Pamela Mondliwa

🚀 Afternoon session at #FLP14 🏛️🤝 Practical Policy Challenges Part 1: Policy Design, Institutional Set-Up, and Coalition Building 🎤 With Andrés Arauz, Amir Lebdioui, Yemi Dipeolu & Jonathan Di John

🚀 Continuing Day 2 at #FLP14 💭🌍 Backgrounds 2: Theoretical Debates (continued) – Panel Discussion 🎤 With Antonio Andreoni, Isabel Estevez & José Miguel Ahumada 💬 A discussion on competing perspectives on industrial policy and their implications for development strategies in the Global South.

🚀 Day 2 of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 14 📚⚙️ Backgrounds 2: Theoretical Debates – Lecture 🎤 With Ha-Joon Chang 💬 Exploring the major theoretical debates surrounding industrial policy, development, and structural transformation.

🚀 Continuing Day 1 of #FLP14 🌍💬 Backgrounds 1: History of Industrial Policy – Panel Discussion 🎤 With Richard Kozul-Wright, José Miguel Ahumada & Jostein Hauge 💬 A discussion on the evolution of industrial policy and their relevance for today's development challenges.

🚀 First session of #FLP14 🌍⚙️ Why is Industrial Policy Suddenly Popular? #Geopolitics, #ClimateChange, and Reversing Premature De-Industrialisation 🏭 🎤 With Ha-Joon Chang, Yemi Dipeolu & Isabel Estevez 💬

🚀 Kicking off @SOAS DLD Future Leaders Programme 14 🌍🏭 Industrial Policy for Structural Transformation in the Global South 🎤 Opening remarks with the DLD Co-Directors: Ha-Joon Chang, Christopher Cramer & Jonathan Di John

🚀 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #DLD next Thursday June 11 for our latest Conversation event, this time on the global health funding crisis. 💡Our speakers: Professor Toby Green, Professor Kara Hanson, and Tess Hewitt ➡️ info and registration🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

🌍Last Thursday Winnie Byanyima of @unaids.org delivered a brilliant annual lecture for here at @soas-dld.bsky.social, arguing how lessons from the #HIV/#AIDS movement can help us address today's enduring health inequalities. ➡️Keep your eye out for our video of the event, to be published soon!

✨Our @soas-dld.bsky.social Annual Lecture 2026 is this Thursday 28 May! Book your free ticket now! ➡️ rb.gy/s8nqhk 🌏"Whose rules-based order? Lessons from the #health justice movement for a broken multilateralism" will be delivered by Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of @unaids.org 🌏

💡How can the majority world seize the current geopolitical rupture to upend the global imbalances that hinder #health & development? ➡️Join us on 28 May to hear @unaids.org's Winnie Byanyima discuss how we can apply lessons from the #AIDS movement to wider struggles for global justice: rb.gy/s8nqhk

🚀We're delighted to announce the @soas-dld.bsky.social Annual Lecture 2026! Join us @soasuni.bsky.social on 28th May to hear Winnie Byanyima of @unaids.org discuss how the majority world can upend the imbalances that hold back health and development. More info and tickets:🔗https://rb.gy/s8nqhk

▶️ 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿: applications close today for the @soasuni.bsky.social Future Leaders Programme 14: 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝. 🔗For more information and to submit your application, go to: sl1nk.com/dj4xsrr 🚀 We look forward to receiving your submissions!

🚀 Afternoon session at @soasuni.bsky.social DLD #FLP13 🇨🇳💰 Access Money and the Gilded Age in #China 🎤 With Yuen Yuen Ang & Mushtaq Khan 💬 Examining the political economy of corruption and development through the lens of China’s transformation and the concept of “access money.”

📣 @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics is HIRING!!! 🚨 📚 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Economics of #China 🇨🇳 info and application 🔗 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/863254

📣 SOAS University of London #Economics is HIRING!!! 🚨 📚 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Data Science 📊 info and application 🔗 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/859365

📌 How automation is reshaping social mobility in #China 🇨🇳 On this blog hosted by @UNUWIDER, @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics PhD Student Wenjun Wang explores how the exposure to automation is becoming a key determinant of individuals’ economic prospects. 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/...

📌 We are pleased to share the Guest Lecture with #SOAS #Economics Prof. Uli Volz, organised by SOAS Students' Union in collaboration with SOAS CSF: Climate Finance and the Global South: "Scaling Up Sustainable Finance and Investment in the Global South" 🌍 Info 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📌 Join us on 22 April at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Joshua Budlender (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), University of Cape Town), on: Racial Segregation in South African Firms 🌍 Info 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

🚀 Continuing the final day at #FLP13 🇳🇬🏥 Case Study: Fighting Corruption in the Nigerian Health Sector 🌍 🎤 With Pallavi Roy 💬 A deep dive into governance challenges in healthcare systems and the policy strategies needed to improve accountability and service delivery.

🚀 Final Day of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD FLP13 🎓⚙️ Case Study: Anti-corruption Strategies in Worker Training and Skills Programmes 🎤 Mushtaq Khan 💬 Exploring how corruption risks emerge in training and skills programmes, and how policy design can improve accountability and effectiveness.