Who better to welcome you to LSE than some of the famous faces that have passed through the very doors that you are about to. The LSE Students’ Union Alumni Lecture Series sees a number of well-known alumni come back to school to teach you a thing or two about life, the world, and their time at LSE. These amazing welcome talks give you a rare chance to hear some of these people’s incredible life-stories, and will no doubt leave you inspired and raring to go on your time at this fine institution. Not to be missed!
Monday 28th September, 12.30-2pm, New Theatre
Free – Seats allocated on a first come first served basis from 12.15pm
Biography
Maurice Saatchi graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1967 with First Class Honours in Economics. He won the MacMillan Prize for Sociology in that year. He was the co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi and is now a partner in M&C Saatchi. He is a Governor Emeritus of the London School of Economics and the Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies. He is the author of The War of Independence, 1999; Happiness Can’t Buy Money, 1999; The Bad Samaritan, 2000; Poor People! Stop Paying Tax!, 2001; The Science of Politics, 2001; If this is Conservatism, I am a Conservative, 2005, and In Praise of Ideology, 2006, and The Sleeping Beauty of America in 2007, Enemy of the People in 2008, and The Myth of Inflation Targeting in 2009. He was elevated to the peerage in 1996. He served on the Conservative Front Bench in the House of Lords as Shadow Minister for the Treasury and the Cabinet Office between 1999 and 2003. He joined the Shadow Cabinet as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2003 to 2005.