LSE

Confirmed Speakers

• Helen Scales
  Helen Scales is a marine biologist, a reporter, and a writer. Her first book, Poseidon’s Steed, explores the secret lives of seahorses and the enduring fascination of human society for these elusive sea creatures.
• Beau Lotto
  Beau Lotto is the founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab. His current research explores the peculiarities of human perception – the capacity to derive meaning from an inherently meaningless environment.
• Paul Ormerod
  Paul Ormerod is an economist and the author of many best-selling books. His most recent book, Positive Linking, explores how the power of networks can revolutionize the world.
• Karine Rathle
  Karine Rathle is a dancer, a choreographer, a teacher, a rehearsal director and a researcher in dance science. Building on the field of somatics, she integrates a scientific understanding of kinetics into both her practice and her teaching.
• Ella Saltmarshe
  Ella Saltmarshe was trained as an anthropologist and has spent the last decade working on communications innovation in international development. She advises NGOs, donors and governments on strategic philanthropy, public policy and social change, with a particular focus on the environment.
• Rob Symington
  Rob Symington is the founder of Escape The City, an online platform that connects young graduates and professionals unfulfilled by corporate jobs with opportunities outside the world of finance.
• Vinay Nair
  Vinay Nair is an LSE graduate currently working in business development with the Acumen Fund, an organization that promotes entrepreneurial approaches to resolving global poverty.
• Helen Arney
  Helen Arney is a comedian with a special interest in physics. She combines science with song, mixes education with entertainment, and sees them not as two cultures but as one subject more commonly known as awesome stuff.
• Martin Zaltz Austwick
  Martin Austwick is a lecturer in advanced spatial analysis at UCL, where he focuses his research on global dynamics, dynamic networks and methods of visualizing complex systems.