London School of Economics Director Sir Howard Davies at Bahçeşehir University

London School of Economics Director Howard Davies evaluates the Global Crisis Today at Bahçeşehir University.

Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), one of the world's leading universities, will share his assessments on the Global Crisis at Bahçeşehir University on 5 November 2009.

At the event, which will also be attended by Prof. Dr. Taner Berksoy, Dean of the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Howard Davies will give a talk on "The Global Crisis Today". After Davies, Prof. Şevket Pamuk, Chair of the LSE Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, will take the floor and share the latest developments at the chair with participants. The LSE Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies was inaugurated in 2005 by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Howard Davies will be accompanied on his visit by a delegation of 10 people from LSE. The delegation includes important names such as Regina Simpson, head of the LSE Alumni Association, and Adam Austerfield, head of LSE Enterprise Limited. Another important group attending the event will be members of the Turkish LSE Alumni Association.

Venue: Bahçeşehir University, Beşiktaş Campus, Fazıl Say Hall
Date: Thursday, 5 November 2009
Time: 17:30

About Howard Davies

Howard Davies received his MA in Modern History and Modern Languages from Merton College, University of Oxford, and completed his MS in management sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has been Director of LSE since 2003. Prior to this, Davies served for two years as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Between 1992 and 1995 he was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry. Between 1997 and 2003 he was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the United Kingdom's single financial regulator. He also served at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Treasury, and was private secretary to the British Ambassador in Paris. Davies currently writes for The Financial Times and The Times.

About Şevket Pamuk

Pamuk graduated from Robert College and Yale University. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at many universities in Türkiye and abroad. Şevket Pamuk is a faculty member at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History and the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University. Since 2008, he has continued his academic career at LSE as "Professorial Research Fellow in Contemporary Turkish Studies". He is also the elder brother of Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk.