On Wednesday February 2, a special interactive pre-conference session for 16-18 year old students, their teachers, counselors and parents will be offered in partnership between the Bank of England, Discover Economics, Warwick Economics Summit, and the University of Warwick. This will be held at 17:30-19:00 GMT / 12:30-14:00 ET / 11:30-13:00 CT / 10:30-12:00 MT / 09:30-11:00 PT. The session will provide insight into studying Economics at university level and will include an interactive taster lecture, the chance to hear from economists about the wide-ranging work that they do, plus also hear from current undergraduate Economics students. Details and booking for the pre-conference session are available here. Note that on the booking form some of the information requested from schools only contains UK-related fields – please just select an item if required but do not worry if this does not match your geographic region or specific details.
For the conference itself, key points are:
- Warwick Economics Summit (WES) is the largest annual student-led academic conference in Europe
- The 16-18 year old scheme aims to develop grassroots awareness of Economics to students around the world virtually, through providing a great opportunity for participants to gain a deeper and diversified understanding of Economics and its application in the real world (plus make an impressive addition to students’ personal statements and university applications)
- The 2021 summit brought together nearly 1900 live attendees of 63 nationalities, from 150 universities worldwide
- WES will run in hybrid format for February 4-6, 2022 to facilitate 16-18 year olds to join virtually from around the world
- Registration for 16-18 year olds is free of charge – book here
- The full schedule is still being finalised but sessions are due to run between:
- Friday February 4: 14:00-21:00 GMT / 09:00-16:00 ET / 08:00-15:00 CT / 07:00-14:00 MT / 06:00-13:00 PT
- Saturday February 5: 10:00-20:00 GMT / 05:00-15:00 ET / 04:00-14:00 CT / 03:00-13:00 MT / 02:00-12:00 PT
- Sunday February 6: 10:00-17:00 GMT / 05:00-12:00 ET / 04:00-11:00 CT / 03:00-10:00 MT / 02:00-09:00 PT
- Speakers released so far include:
- José Manuel Barroso - Former President of the European Commission
- Nadia Calviño - Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
- Beatrice Fihn - Executive Director of ICAN
- Irina Bokova - Former General-Director of UNESCO
- François Villeroy de Galhau - Governor of The Bank of France
- Richard Blundell - Economist, Professor of Political Economy at UCL
- Barry Schwartz – American psychologist and the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College
- Lars Peter Hansen - Recipient of the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Learn more about the speakers here
- The pdf brochure for the 2022 summit is available here
- Check information and submit queries (via details in the pdf brochure or the ‘contact us’ section) at: https://www.
warwickeconomicssummit.com/16- to-18-year-olds - Visit the 2022 conference homepage here
- Register for a free place here
For any queries, please submit these to the organisers directly. I hope this further information helps though 
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Best regards,
Sarah Jamieson
Regional Officer (North America) | Europe & Americas Team | University of Warwick
s.jamieson@warwick.ac.uk | External: 024 7615 1174 | Internal: 51174
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