Some New (Old) Directions In Entropy, Information and Inequality. Keynote, LAMES/LACEA,; Puebla, Mexico; 8 November, 2019
Are We Living in an Age of Rising Inequality? No, But Yes. Seoul, Korea, 29 November, 2018.
Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty. Cornell University, 11 November, 2018.
Addressing the Anxieties of our Time: The Work of the International Panel on Social Progress. Kuala Lumpur, 22 January, 2018.
What's the World Bank Good For? Public Lecture, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, 20 October, 2017.
The Digital Revolution and Poverty Reduction. Presentation to the International Monetary Fund. Washington, D.C. April, 2017.
IPSP: One Issue, Two Themes and Three Messages. Opening address to the authors' meeting of the International Panel on Social Progress, Lisbon. January, 2017.
Statistics for Colonial Rule, for the Independence Struggle, and for Inclusive Development, Keynote Speech, IMF Fourth Statistical Forum, Washington, DC, November, 2016.
The End of Laissez-Faire: A 90th Anniversary Commentary. Presentation at Conference on The Relevance of Keynes to the Contemporary World, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Turin, Italy. October, 2016.
The Future of International Migration, Keynote to mark the 500th Anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia, KU Leuven and UC Louvain, Belgium. September, 2016.
Citizenship, Migration and Opportunity, Presidential Address, Human Development and Capability Association, Tokyo. September, 2016.
Three Comments on the Report of the Atkinson Commission on Monitoring Global Poverty, World Bank, Washington, DC. July, 2016
Keynes, Pigou, Wicksell, Kahneman--and Fiscal Affairs, International Monetary Fund, Wsahington, DC, December, 2015.
Types of Informality: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, March, 2015