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David Willetts

David Willetts

Visiting Professor

Biography

Lord David Willetts is a Conservative Party politician, life peer, and academic and is currently Executive Chair of the Resolution Foundation. From 1992 to 2015, he was the MP for Havant, becoming Minister of State for Universities and Science from 2010 until 2014. Before that David worked at the Treasury and the Number 10 Policy Unit and served as Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government. Willetts became a member of the House of Lords in 2015. He is Governor of the Ditchley Foundation, a member of the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Lord Willetts has written widely on economic and social policy. His book The Pinch was published in 2010 and his most recent book A University Education came out in November 2017.

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The Rt Hon Lord Willetts on space, sustainability and what the UK can do next

The Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS joined the Freeman Air and Space Institute for their summer lecture where he reflected on how the space domain has evolved since...

Lord Willetts

Events

02SepGenerations - web graphic

Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?

Selfish baby boomers? Miserable Gen X? “Snowflake” millennials and Gen Z? Are you bored or annoyed by the tired clichés about you and your generation?

Please note: this event has passed.

23NovVisiting Professor, David Willetts, will be joining us on 23 November.

Connections: 'Is there a war between the generations? And if so who is winning?' with David Willetts

The coronavirus seems yet another example of the conflicting interests of different generations. But is this just promoting generational warfare?

Please note: this event has passed.

News

The Rt Hon Lord Willetts on space, sustainability and what the UK can do next

The Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS joined the Freeman Air and Space Institute for their summer lecture where he reflected on how the space domain has evolved since...

Lord Willetts

Events

02SepGenerations - web graphic

Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?

Selfish baby boomers? Miserable Gen X? “Snowflake” millennials and Gen Z? Are you bored or annoyed by the tired clichés about you and your generation?

Please note: this event has passed.

23NovVisiting Professor, David Willetts, will be joining us on 23 November.

Connections: 'Is there a war between the generations? And if so who is winning?' with David Willetts

The coronavirus seems yet another example of the conflicting interests of different generations. But is this just promoting generational warfare?

Please note: this event has passed.