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EBRD podcastsBrave old world- the launch of EBRD Transition Report 2025-26Is demographic change a bigger global challenge than climate change? And is population ageing, in fact, one of humanity’s greatest successes?
In this episode, listen back to the launch of the EBRD’s Transition Report 2025-26: Brave Old World. Moderated by Richard Porter, EBRD Managing Director of Communications, the discussion brings together a distinguished panel:
Professor Sarah Harper CBE – Clore Professor of Gerontology, University of Oxford; Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Eghosa Omoigui – Founder and Managing General Partner, EchoVC Partners
Dr Nicholas Eberstadt – Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute
Beata Javorcik – EBRD Chief Economist
Brave Old World ex...
2025-11-261h 32
Insight TalksThe IC series: Shifting DemographicsIn the first episode of this series, we dive deeper into the research and predictions explored in our Shifting Demographics report. Professor Sarah Harper CBE, Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and Charlie Willans, report co-author and Head of Responsible Investment, discuss the trends in population ageing across the world, the opportunities it creates in emerging economies and the risks for China, as well as the implications for labour supply and climate change. Professor Harper is an industry leading expert on demography and gerontology. Her highly regarded book, How Population Change Wil...
2025-06-2523 min
The Century PlanOur Ageing Population - How It Affects Our Retirement - with guest Professor Sarah Harper CBE.In this episode of The Century Plan, Dennis and Sarah are pleased to welcome their guest, Professor Sarah Harper CBE. Sarah is a world-renowned scientist and Clore Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford. She's a fellow at University College and Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and she was appointed CBE for services to demography in 2018. Sarah's written books including How Population Change Will Transform Our World, Ageing Societies, Risk and Resilience and Global Ageing. During this episode, Sarah Harper shares her insights on how society needs to adapt to us li...
2024-05-0247 min
DiscoveryThe Life Scientific: Sarah HarperPeople around the world are living longer and, on the whole, having fewer children. What does this mean for future populations? Sarah Harper CBE, Professor in Gerontology at the University of Oxford, tells presenter Jim Al-Khalili how it could affect pensions, why it might mean we work for longer, and discusses the ways modern life is changing global attitudes to when we have children, and whether we have them at all. Fertility and ageing have been Sarah's life's work and she tells her story of giving up a career in the media to carry out in-depth research, and going...
2024-01-1527 min
The Life ScientificProfessor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.People around the world are living longer and, on the whole, having fewer children. What does this mean for future populations? Sarah Harper CBE, Professor in Gerontology at the University of Oxford, tells presenter Jim Al-Khalili how it could affect pensions, why it might mean we work for longer, and discusses the ways modern life is changing global attitudes to when we have children, and whether we have them at all. Fertility and ageing have been Sarah's life's work and she tells her story of giving up a career in the media to carry out in-depth research, and going...
2023-11-1428 min