Events 2025
An overview of events held by the IIMR in 2025. To see our forthcoming events, please go the Forthcoming Events page.
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IIMR Annual Conference
'Why were so many economists wrong about inflation in the early 2020s?'
 | Wednesday 12th November, 2025 |
 | 11am-3pm |
 | University of Buckingham |
Join us for an event that will consider the response of central banks and governments to the Covid-19 crisis - what happened, the consequences of their actions and what lessons can be learned from the mistakes they made.
(coffee from 10:30am)
Welcome 11:00am
Session 1: Money and inflation during the Covid-19 years
11:05 - 11:30 Tim Congdon & Juan Castaneda
11:35 - 12:00 John Greenwood and Steve Hanke
Session 2: An assessment of the Bank of England's reaction to Covid-19
12.05-12.30 Huw Pill, Bank of England
12:35 - 13:00 Jonathan Haskel
Lunch 13:00 - 13:45pm
Discussion
13:45 – 14:45 Discussion session among the speakers from Sessions 1 and 2, chaired by James Forder
14:45. Event closes
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IIMR Annual Public Lecture
'Monetary and fiscal policy since 2007: could we have done better?'
| Monday 10th November, 2025 |
| Doors open 18.00; lecture starts 18.30 |
| RAC Club Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HS |
Speaker: Lord Terry Burns
We are honoured to welcome Lord Burns to speak on the topic of 'Monetary and fiscal policy since 2007: could we have done better?'
Terry Burns was made a life peer in 1998 for his services as former Chief Economic Advisor and Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury. His government service started back in 1976 when he was a member of the HM Treasury Academic Panel, before being appointed as Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury and Head of the Government Economic Service in 1980 and as Permanent Secretary in 1991. Since leaving the Treasury, Lord Burns has held many Board roles within organisations including being Chairman of Santander UK, Channel 4 and the Royal Academy of Music. He has also been Chairman of the National Lottery Commission and of OFCOM.
Lord Burns has been President of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Society of British Economists. He is also a Fellow of the London Business School and a Vice-President of the Royal Economic Society.
IIMR Webinar series
Money and Inflation at the Time of Covid
| Wednesday 1st October, 2025 |
| 14.00 |
| Online |
Professor Tim Congdon will discuss his upcoming book, Money and inflation at the time of Covid, with the Institute's Director, Ewen Stewart. Tim and Ewen will examine a number of key themes about inflation in the 2020s. Crucially, they will review why in mid-2020 over 99% of the economics profession thought that the Covid pandemic would lead to a long period of disinflation/deflation. In the event, inflation in 2022 reached the highest level for 40 years. Tim Congdon was very much the exception in his correct prediction of an inflation flare-up. Why were so many economists so wrong? What lessons can be learned, so that policy-makers do not make the same mistakes in future? This promises to be an important and fascinating exchange, and we very much hope you can join us.
Vinson Centre Beloff Conference
Europe's economic crisis: fiscal and monetary context and remedies
| Wednesday 3rd September, 2025 |
| 10.00AM |
| University of Buckingham |
Speaker: Ewen Stewart, Director of the Institute of International Monetary Research. Ewen examines the European economic condition in a wider global context focusing on underlying performance and key characteristics driving what has been a consistently weak GDP growth record over the last 20 years.