Professor Ngaire Woods will chair a highly informative and interactive session on Strategy with Indian-American Economist, Professor Avinash Dixit and Professor of War Studies KCL and Foreign Policy Advisor to Tony Blair, Sir Lawrence Freedman.

This event is open to members of the University. Please register your attendance via email: events@bsg.ox.ac.uk

Biographies

Avinash Kamalakar Dixit is an Indian-American economist. He is currently University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the University of California, Berkeley, at Balliol College, Oxford and at the University of Warwick. In 1994 Dixit received the first-ever CES Fellow Award from the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. Dixit has also held visiting scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund and the Russell Sage Foundation. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and was Vice-President (2002) and President (2008) of the American Economic Association. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

The Rt Hon. Sir Lawrence David Freedman is Professor of War Studies at King's College London, and was a foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair. He is a member of the 2009 United Kingdom Iraq War inquiry. Freedman held positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) before he was appointed, in 1982, Professor of War Studies at King's College London. He has been Vice Principal (Research) at KCL since 2003 and a Fellow since 1992. Freedman was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1996 and Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George in 2003. Sir Lawrence Freedman contributed to the preparation of the 1999 Chicago speech in which Tony Blair set out the 'Blair doctrine’. Freedman's principal areas of interest include contemporary defence and foreign policy issues. He has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues.