Speaker: David Lammy

David Lammy, Labour Member of Parliament for Tottenham in conversation with Graham Wilson on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 12:30 PM at Boston University Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road. Lunch is provided, please RSVP: edamrien@bu.edu.

David Lammy has been the Labour Member of the Parliament for his home constituency of Tottenham since 2000. He served for 8 years (2002-10) as a Minister in the last Labour government, including as Culture Minister, and Higher Education Minister, and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2008. Since 2010, David has been an active backbench MP. He is author of Out of the Ashes: Britain after the Riots, an analysis of the long-standing causes of the 2011 riots.

Graham Wilson is professor of Political Science and Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University. His current research focuses on the role of governments in competition for primacy between leading financial centers around the world.