Mais Lecture

The annual Mais Lecture has been hosted since 1978 by Cass Business School (previously City University Business School), part of City, University of London.

The lecture is named in honour of Lord Mais, the 645th Lord Mayor of the City of London (1972-73), and Pro-Chancellor of City University (1979-84), who played a key role in establishing City University's Centre of Excellence for Banking and Finance, now part of the wider Cass Faculty of Finance.

The annual lecture is regarded as a leading event for the banking and finance community of the City of London, having hosted a number of prestigious speakers including successive Prime Ministers, Chancellors of the Exchequer, and Governors of the Bank of England.

In January 2021 Anneliese Dodds MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, became the first woman to give the Mais Lecture.

List of Mais Lectures

Lecture	Date	Delivered by	Title
First	9 Feb 1978	Gordon Richardson	Reflections on the Conduct of Monetary Policy[1]
Second	Nov 1979	Lionel Robbins	Objectives of Monetary Policy: Past and Present
Third	May 1981	Geoffrey Howe	The Fight Against Inflation
Fourth	Mar 1983	Friedrich Hayek	Science and Ethics
Fifth	18 Jun 1984	Nigel Lawson	The British Experiment[2][3][4]
Sixth	May 1986	Roy Jenkins	The International Finance Scene: Can Sense be Plucked Out of Danger
Seventh	May 1987	Robin Leigh-Pemberton	The Instruments of Monetary Policy
Eighth	May 1988	Michel Camdessus	The IMF in a Changing World
Ninth	May 1989	Samuel Brittan	A Restatement of Economic Liberalism
Tenth	May 1990	Gordon Pepper	Monetary Policy: A Post-Mortem and Proposal
Eleventh	May 1992	Erik Hoffmeyer	Economic and Monetary Union: The Case for Central Bank Independence
Twelfth	Jun 1993	Peter Lilley	Benefits and Costs: Securing and Future of Social Security
Thirteenth	May 1994	Kenneth Clarke	The Changing World of Work in the 1990s
Fourteenth	22 May 1995	Tony Blair	The Economic Framework for New Labour[5][4]
Fifteenth	Oct 1996	Michael Heseltine	Achieving Competitiveness in a Global Economy
Sixteenth	24 Jun 1997	Edward George	Monetary Policy in Britain and Europe[6][7]
Seventeenth	May 1998	Hans Tietmeyer	Financial and Monetary Integration: Benefits, Opportunities, and Pitfalls
Eighteenth	Oct 1999	Gordon Brown	The Conditions for Full Employment[8]
Nineteenth	May 2000	Jonathan Sacks	Markets, Governments, and Virtues
Twentieth	May 2001	Valery Giscard d'Estaing	The New European Debate: The Euro-zone and the Greater Europe
Twenty-first	Apr 2003	Ernst Welteke	Reflections on European Monetary Policy[9]
Twenty-second	12 May 2004	Otmar Issing	The Euro: the First Five Years[10]
Twenty-third	17 May 2005	Mervyn King	Monetary Policy: Practice Ahead of Theory[11][12][13]
Twenty-fourth	29 Oct 2008	Alistair Darling	Chancellor Reveals His Plans to Maintain Economic Stability[14][15][16][17]
Twenty-fifth	13 May 2009	Axel A. Weber	Reflections on the Financial Crisis[18]
Twenty-sixth	24 Feb 2010	George Osborne	A New Economic Model[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Twenty-seventh	Jul 2011	Paul Volcker	The World of Finance and the National Interest[26][27][28]
Twenty-eighth	8 May 2012	Patrick Honohan	The Experience of Financial Integration – Ireland, Britain, Europe[29][30][31]
Twenty-ninth	18 Mar 2014	Mark Carney	One Mission. One Bank. Promoting the Good of the People of the United Kingdom.[32][33][34]
Thirtieth	7 Oct 2015	Olivier Blanchard	Rethinking Macro (Stabilisation) Policy[35][36][37]
Thirty-first	12 Jun 2017	Brian Griffiths	Restoring Trust in the Banking System[38][39][40][41][42][43]
Thirty-second	29 Oct 2018	José Manuel Barroso	The European Union and the Changing International Landscape[44][45]
Thirty-third	13 Jan 2021	Anneliese Dodds	The challenges of the post-Covid, post-Brexit UK economy – a response[46][47][48]

References

1. "Reflections on the conduct of monetary policy - the first Mais lecture". www.bankofengland.co.uk.
2. "Economic policy: The British Experiment (The Mais Lecture) | Margaret Thatcher Foundation". www.margaretthatcher.org.
3. "The Mais lecture: ten years on | LSE Digital Library". digital.library.lse.ac.uk.
4. Skidelsky, Robert. "Bring back Keynes".
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6. "The Sixteenth Mais Lecture - speech by Edward George". www.bankofengland.co.uk.
7. "Info". www.bankofengland.co.uk. 1997. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
8. HM Treasury, e-Comms Team (June 12, 2001). "Delivering economic stability, speech by Ed Balls, Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury". webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on April 7, 2010. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-10-13. Retrieved 2019-10-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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11. "Info". www.bankofengland.co.uk. 2005. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
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14. "Subscribe to read | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Cite uses generic title (help)
15. "Darling: tax may rise in downturn". The Independent. October 30, 2008.
16. "Alistair Darling: New approach needed for public finances to combat downturn". October 29, 2008 – via www.theguardian.com.
17. "Darling: UK must be determined". politics.co.uk.
18. "Listing" (PDF). www.bis.org. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
19. BBC Parliament - Briefings (2010-02-27). "George Osborne". BBC. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
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21. Reece, Damian (February 24, 2010). "Osborne leaves no room for doubt as to Tories' intentions to tackle deficit" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
22. "Osborne promises honesty on cuts". February 25, 2010 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
23. "Have economists witnessed the birth of 'Osbornism'?". Channel 4 News.
24. Watt, Nicholas; Mulholland, Hélène (February 25, 2010). "UK must cut fiscal deficit now, warns George Osborne" – via www.theguardian.com.
25. "At last, the Tories get organised". Coffee House. March 12, 2010.
26. Armitstead, Louise (July 14, 2011). "Volcker: Vickers has 'missed' big bank problem" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
27. "haslamedia".
28. Skinner, Chris M. (July 15, 2011). "Volcker versus Vickers, Round One". Chris Skinner's blog.
29. "Governor Honohan presents Mais lecture at Cass Business School, London | Central Bank of Ireland". www.centralbank.ie.
30. "Listing" (PDF). www.bis.org. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
31. Hennessy, Mark. "EFSF should have funded banks, says Honohan". The Irish Times.
32. "One mission". www.bankofengland.co.uk. 2014. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
33. Peston, Robert (March 18, 2014). "All change at the Bank of England" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
34. "The rich are different". March 19, 2014 – via The Economist.
35. "Olivier Blanchard at Cass Mais Lecture 2015: Rethinking Macro (Stabilisation) Policy" – via www.youtube.com.
36. "Ex-IMF Chief Economist backs Macron's economic policy: an interview with Olivier Blanchard". October 20, 2015.
37. "Olivier Blanchard at Cass Mais Lecture 2015" – via www.youtube.com.
38. "Restoring Trust in the Banking System | Cass Business School". www.cass.city.ac.uk.
39. "Programme" (PDF). theceme.org. 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
40. "Lord Griffiths at Cass: Restoring Trust in the Banking System, Mais Lecture 2017" – via www.youtube.com.
41. "Restoring Trust in the Banking System, Lord Griffiths - Mais Lecture 2017 - Highlights" – via www.youtube.com.
42. "Lord Griffiths: Restoring Trust in the Banking System". May 26, 2017.
43. "Speech". www.bankofengland.co.uk. 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
44. "Mais Lecture 2018". City, University of London.
45. "Jose Manuel Barroso: Mais Lecture, Cass Business School – Fortis Consulting London".
46. Giles, Chris (2021-01-21). "Labour signals end of Corbyn era in setting out economic vision". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
47. Boscia, Stefan (2021-01-13). "Labour's Anneliese Dodds to call for 'responsible fiscal framework' in major speech". City A.M. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
48. "Anneliese Dodds - Mais lecture to the Business School at City University London". The Labour Party. 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2021-01-29.

External links

• The Mais Lecture 1978-2012
• The Mais Lecture: ten years on (Nigel Lawson at London School of Economics)