Exit Strategy Workshop No 6: Post-Covid Jobs and the Quest for Better Work

An important question in the current emergency relates to the potential for reforming our economics as we exit from lockdown and move through the Covid-19 crisis. Recovery is not just a matter of getting people back to work, but of bringing them back to better jobs.

Introduction: Dame Henrietta Moore, Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL

Panel 1: A New Social Contract
Chair: Andrew Percy, UCL
Panellists:
Stephen Machin, Director, Centre of Economic Performance, LSE
Anand Menon, Director of the UK in a Changing Europe, KCL
Ruth Yeoman, Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford

Panel 2: Labour Markets in Recovery
Chair: Georgios Melios, UCL
Panellists
Laura Gardiner, Research Director, Resolution Foundation
Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, KCL
Geoff Tily, Senior Economist, TUC