SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue

🚀 @SOAS DLD is delighted to announce the next Future Leaders Programme: 💡 Industrial Policy for Structural Transformation in the Global South 🌍 📅 Date: 22–26 June 2026 📍 #London 📌 Deadline: 20 April 2026 🔗 application ⬇️ soas.ac.uk/future-leaders…

💡Are you interested in unconventional or overlooked policies, strategies, & experiences that have contributed to economic growth around the world? ✅Check out our #SOAS #DLD 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 case studies: redirme.com/afyb3t

📌 Join us TODAY at #SOAS #Economics for a seminar organised by the @CSF_SOAS for with Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin, FREcon on: ♻️ Climate and Development Finance in a Fast-Changing World 🌍 Info 🔗 soas.ac.uk/about/event/cl…

🚀 Afternoon session at @SOAS DLD #FLP12 💰📊 Debt and Debt Management 🎤 With Christina Laskaridis & Matthew Martin 💬 A critical discussion on sovereign debt sustainability, fiscal space, and financing development in an increasingly fragile global financial environment.

🚀 Continuing the final day at #FLP12 🥬📦 The Industrialization of Freshness and High Value Agriculture 🎤 With @CramerChristoph 💬 From value chains to logistics and standards, exploring how high-value agriculture reshapes industrial strategy and global trade integration.

🚀 Final Day of @SOAS DLD Future Leaders Programme 12 🌾🌍 Agriculture and Development 🎤 With Carlos Oya @estariade 💬 Examining the role of agriculture in structural transformation — productivity, rural change, labour dynamics, and long-term development pathways.

🚀 Closing Day 3 of @SOAS DLD #FLP12 ⛏️🌍 Minerals, Development, and Global Political Economy 🎤 With Paul Jourdan & Zainab Usman 💬

♻️🏭 Green Industrial Policy in #Africa 🎤 With Arkebe Oqubay @DrArkebe 💬 How can African economies pursue industrialisation while advancing climate goals? A critical discussion on sustainability, green transitions, and development strategy.

🚀 Day 3 of @SOAS DLD FLP 12 🏭🌍 Industrial Policy: History, Rationale, and #Africa 🎤 With Arkebe Oqubay, Zainab Usman & Paul Jourdan 💬 Revisiting the historical foundations of industrial policy for Africa’s #structuraltransformation in a changing global order. 🌍

🚀 Afternoon session at @SOAS DLD #FLP12 🌍📦 Trading Up: Trade Policy Priorities in an Age of ‘Trump Tariffs’, the AfCFTA 🎤 With Nimrod Zalk & Dirk Willem te Velde 💬

🚀 Day 2 of @SOAS DLD Future Leaders Programme 12 💰🌍 Development Finance and Domestic Resource Mobilization 🎤 With Jonathan Di John & Nimrod Zalk 💬

🚀 We closed Day 1 of @SOAS DLD #FLP12 🎙️🌍 High Level Dialogue with Sir Mo Ibrahim 🎤 In conversation with Christopher Cramer & Jonathan Di John 💬 A powerful exchange on governance, leadership, accountability, and the future of African development. #Leadership #Africa #SOAS

🚀 Afternoon at #FLP12 🌍 #Africa Business Roundtable 🎤 With Salma Seetaroo & ‘Jide Olanrewaju 💬 Bringing private sector perspectives into the conversation — exploring entrepreneurship, investment, and business strategy in a changing global economy. 🏢

📌 Look at the last publication of our @SOAS #Economics Lecturer Fernando Rugitsky Fernando examines the connection between environmental policies for the #Amazon rainforest and the rise of far-right agrarian politics in #Brazil 🔗phenomenalworld.org/analysis/battl…

🚀 First panel of Day 1 of @SOAS #DLD Future Leaders Programme 12 🌍 After Aid: the shifting global context for African structural change ♻️ 🎤 With Ken Opalo & Zainab Usman 💬

🌍 Do Global Value Chains really benefit us? Join Benjamin Selwyn (@SussexUni) at SOAS for the launch of his new book on global value chains (GVCs), chaired by Lorena Lombardozzi (@floretta_voice). Explore why GVCs may generate exploitative jobs, deepen poverty, stunt human development, and harm the environment, challenging the idea that they automatically boost incomes and create better opportunities. 📍@SOAS SWLT and online 🕔5 March, at 5pm 📝 Register here: shorturl.at/TNxEr

🧠📊 Group Case Study Work underway! Debating, challenging, rethinking #policy 🚀

✨We're just kicking off our @SOAS DLD Future Leaders Programme 12, 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖: 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 ‘𝙉𝙚𝙬’ 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙. We look forward to 4 days of ideas exchange with our participants and expert speakers!

⏱️𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗟𝗬! ⏱️ ✨Applications for the next #SOAS #DLD Future Leaders Programme, 𝙍𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞-𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨, close at the end of today! ➡️info🔗 soas.ac.uk/future-leaders…

⏱️𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗟𝗬!⏱️Applications for the next @SOAS DLD Future Leaders Programme, 𝙍𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞-𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨, close at the end of today!➡️For more info & to submit your application, visit lnkd.in/etNxJ6J5