British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

9.00

Registration

9.30

Welcome

9.40

Britain's system of pensions

• Beveridge and pensions.
  Professor Jose Harris (Oxford) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• ?In the long run we shall all be dead?: Politics and pensions in postwar Britain.
  Dr Hugh Pemberton (Bristol) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• Discussant: Professor Howard Glennerster (London School of Economics) [BIOGRAPHY]

11.00

Coffee

11.30

Financing UK pensions

• Overregulating your pension out of existence: The long term consequences of British pension policy over the last 30 years.
  Professor David Blake (Cass Business School, London) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• Paying for our futures: the political economy of pension reform in the UK.
  Professor Paul Johnson (London School of Economics) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• Discussant: Professor John Hills (Pensions Commission / London School of Economics) [BIOGRAPHY]

12.50

Lunch

13.50

UK occupational pensions in comparative perspective

• Occupational Pension Schemes in the United States: Comparisons to the United Kingdom.
  Dr Steven A. Sass (Centre for Retirement Research, Boston College, USA) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• The search for security: Occupational pensions in Britain and Europe.
  Professor Noel Whiteside (Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• Discussant: Frank Field MP (Chairman, Pensions Reform Group) [BIOGRAPHY]

15.10

Short Break

15.20

European comparators

• Pension reforms in Southern Europe: The Italian experience.
  Professor Maurizio Ferrera (Milano) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• Perspectives on Pensions in Eastern Europe.
  Dr Katharina Müller (German Development Institute, Bonn, Germany) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• Discussant: Professor Dr. Karl Hinrichs (Bremen) [BIOGRAPHY]

16.40

Tea

17.10

Women and pensions: how to address gender inequality in British pensions

• The 'Scandal’ of Women’s Pensions: How did it come about?
  Professor Pat Thane (Centre for Contemporary British History, University of London) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• Gender Inequality in British Pensions: Towards a Better Deal.
  Professor Jay Ginn (Surrey) [ABSTRACT | BIOGRAPHY]
• Discussant: Rt Hon Baroness Patricia Hollis of Heigham [BIOGRAPHY]

18.30

Evening round table (subject to change)

• Chair: Norma Cohen (Senior Corporate Reporter, Financial Times) [BIOGRAPHY]
• Professor Dr. Karl Hinrichs (Bremen)
• Matthew Connell (Head of Government Affairs, Zurich Financial Services) [BIOGRAPHY]
• Professor Jay Ginn (Surrey) [BIOGRAPHY]
• Professor Gordon L Clark (Oxford) [BIOGRAPHY]
• Professor Nicholas Barr (London School of Economics) [BIOGRAPHY]

19.15

Reception