When Geography meets Financial Services with Professor Sarah Hall

Join us for a virtual talk featuring Professor Sarah Hall (1996), 1931 Professor of Geography and Fellow of St John’s College.

Sarah is an an economic geographer whose research develops geographically sensitive cultural economy approaches to the economy in order to shape academic, public and policy debate at a time of profound economic disruption.

From Mayfair to Milton Keynes, Whitehall to Westminster: What happens when geography meets financial services?

In this talk, I explore how geography matters in financial services. I use the example of the UK to show how and why geography has shaped the development of London as a leading financial centre before exploring how current changing macro economic developments, most notably the UK’s relationship with the EU, China and the US is shaping this.

I also explore how geography matters in financial services beyond London by examining the changing fortunes of other cities in the UK that have sought to use financial services as a key part of their economic development policy.

I conclude by reflecting on the experience of being a geographer researching these trends and contributing to the policy debate through my experiences working in Whitehall and in Westminster alongside my academic work in Cambridge.

– Professor Sarah Hall

This talk will take place on Wednesday 19 March at 6pm (GMT) on Zoom.

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