The RPI can announce the dates of our Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2026, which will take place on the 14th and 15th of September 2026, at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
The RPI can today announce the eighth session of our Strategy and Governance Forum group, delivered by the RPI’s George Yarrow, titled “The Governance of Regulatory Policy Assessment”
This session will be led by Ben Gough (PwC UK), entitled “Endpoint versus Evolution: Economic Regulation after the Cunliffe Review”
The RPI can announce the next session of our Strategy and Governance Forum, hosted by George Yarrow, who will be presenting his talk, originally planned for our Annual Conference 2025, “Cause of Productivity Growth: Insights and Empty Boxes”
In Britain, the 1980s was a decade of major regulatory reform in Britain. Water and Financial Services were signature examples. In both industries, the model which emerged was that state agencies should create a rulebook and senior executives and financiers would be allowed, even encouraged, to make as much money as possible for themselves from these activities, subject to observing the rules. In both industries, this approach can now be seen to have failed. The proposed response to these failures is to write still more rules and reshuffle the responsibilities of regulatory agencies.
In this talk, John Kay will argue that the underlying philosophy was flawed from inception, that the planned tinkering will have at best marginal effect, and that both industries should be restructured within the context of a broader reappraisal of the relationship between business and society.
The RPI can today annouce the dates of our Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2025, which will take place at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford between the 15th and 16th September, 2025.
The next RPI Study Group session, now renamed to the “Strategy and Governance Forum”, will be led by George Anstey.
The RPI can today announced the date of the 4th meeting of the Economic Strategy and Governance Study Group, which will take place at the National Liberal Club on the 26th March
The RPI can today announced the date of the 3rd meeting of the Economic Strategy and Governance Study Group, which will take place at the
We can today announce the date of the second meeting, which will take place on the 3rd October, with the same timings as the first meeting (arrival from 5pm, 5:30pm start time, concluding at 7pm with wine available for attendees), again at the National Liberal Club. We will confirm the topic in the coming weeks.
The RPI can announce the dates for our 2024 Annual Competition and Regulation Conference. This will be hosted at Lady Margaret Hall on the 9th-10th September 2024. The theme of the conference is Challenges for the New Government: Identifying Strategic Priorities
The RPI is launching a new event series, titled “Economic Strategy and Governance Study Group”, that will meet on a regular basis in Central London.
The Institute is pleased to announce that we will be hosting another of our Hertford Seminars, given by Professor George Yarrow, entitled: ‘The destructive persistence of the Nirvana Fallacy in public policy and debate’
The Institute is pleased to announce that we will be hosting one of our Hertford Seminars with a discussion led by Mark Sedwill.
We are pleased to share the dates for the Annual Competition and Regulation Conference. It will be held on the 27th & 28th of September at Lady Margaret Hall. We hope to see you there!
In this new academic year, the Institute will be moving to a new events structure, placing less emphasis on ‘omnibus’ conferences in favour of colloquia and seminars, in order to give more sustained attention to major priority issues in regulation. The upcoming Annual Conference stands at the cusp of the change and so this year there will be no conference fee, only a charge of £125+VAT to cover meal and refreshment expenses (including the food and drink costs of the Distinguished Fellows Dinner) and a charge of £80+VAT for those wanting to reside in the College on the night of 27 September.
We are pleased to announce that bookings are now open for the 2023 Westminster Conference.
Consistent with the RPI’s purpose (promoting the study of regulation for the public benefit), this year’s Westminster Conference will take a form closer to a ‘teach in’ or a challenging away-day than is traditional, particularly in the morning.
We are pleased to announce that the Institute’s annual conference, originally scheduled for 19th/20th September and cancelled due to the timing of state funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II, has been rescheduled for the afternoon of the 7th and all day the 8th December.
We are please to announce that our Annual Westminster Conference will be held on Wednesday the 11th of May at One Great George Street.
Regulatory Policy Institute events are back!
For two days in September, we will pool collective experiences on the question of ‘rethinking regulation’ with those working in Government, regulatory bodies, regulated companies, their legal and economic advisers, as well as those from the academic community in order to see whether we can draw out any principles that could be applied in the design of UK regulatory policy in a post-Brexit, post-Covid world.
We will ask ourselves: what do we need to do to rethink regulation?
The Regulatory Policy Institute is delighted to announce that John Penrose MP will be presenting his independent report on UK competition policy to an RPI
Chair:Dr Tony Balance, Director of Strategy and Regulation, Severn Trent Water Ltd.Contributions fromMorgan Wild, Senior Policy Researcher at Citizens AdviceTom Kibasi, Director of Institute for
James Richardson, Chief Economist at the National Infrastructure Commission and Jonathan Brearley, Executive Director of Systems and Networks, Ofgem. Lord David Currie will give the
Chair:Steve Smith, Lloyds Banking Group Contributions from:Laura Sandys, Challenging IdeasSian Jones, XoservePhil Jones, Northern Powergrid
Our Westminster Conference brought these themes together to examine the central question of the new social licence to operate. The conference included contributions from international experience as well as policy makers, regulated companies and advisors across the utility sector
Delivered by:Kersti Berge, Director for Energy and Climate Change, Scottish Government. with remarks from Professor George Yarrow, Chairman Emeritus and founder, RPI