It hosts numerous conferences each year and has attracted high-level speakers, including Robert Barro, George Borjas, Nobel Laureate Edward Prescott, Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, Sir Nigel Lawson and many others.
The liberalisation and privatisation of the energy markets in the United Kingdom began with the Margaret Thatcher Government in the 1980s (often called the Thatcher-Lawson agenda, due to the key role of Nigel Lawson in the Thatcher government cabinet).
Lawson | Nigel Kennedy | Henry Lawson | Nigel Hawthorne | Lawson (band) | Nigel Planer | Nigel Mansell | Nigel Bond | Nigella Lawson | Nigel Parkinson | Nigel Lythgoe | Nigel Havers | Nigel Bruce | Doyle Lawson | Dave Lawson | Sir Nigel | Nigel Wright | Nigel Osborne | Nigel Gresley | Nigel Nicolson | Nigel Godrich | Nigel Davenport | Nigel | Alfred Lawson | Nigel Tranter | Nigel Stepney | Nigel Playfair | Nigel Marven | Nigel Dick | Nigel Calder |
Eschewing journalists with previous experience in the profession, he hired graduates straight from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, giving a start to the careers of writers such as Patrick Hutber (of Hutber's law), William Rees-Mogg, Christopher Tugendhat and Nigel Lawson.