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The OMEGA Centre Seminar Series focuses on topics related to the planning, appraisal and delivery of mega infrastructure projects and their impacts on development. All are welcome.
All are welcome and participation is free. Please ensure to reserve a space via the event page.
has undertaken a wide range of research and consultancy studies on several pressing issues related to: the treatment of 鈥淩isk, Uncertainty and Complexity鈥� in project decision-making, the 鈥淧ower of Context鈥� on such decision-making, and the role of 鈥淪ustainability and Sustainable Development Visions鈥� for mega project infrastructure investments.
The Seminar Programme allows the OMEGA Centre to provide a platform to present findings of recently completed and on-going infrastructure projects globally, and to engage with a wide audience from academia and praxis. We invite听speakers involved in a variety of aspects of mega infrastructure project developments with a view to encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration and knowledge-transfer. See a list of past and current contributors below.
The seminars especially looks to foster the generation of innovative approaches to tackling/addressing current and future threats, risks and opportunities of contemporary megaproject decision-making and decision-making in future environments.
Planning the Net Zero Airport: A new approach to airport planning that better captures the complexities and velocity of change in our contemporary world
Date: Wednesday 22听November 2023
Time:听5:30-7:00pm GMT
Location: Hybrid
Decentralised Sanitary Infrastructure as a Critical Agent of State-led Development: The case of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia
Date: Wednesday 6 December听2023
Time:听5:30-7:00pm GMT
Location: Hybrid
The 2 US$ Trillion US Green Infrastructure Plan: A critical review of prospects and challenges ahead
Date: Postponed听
Time:听5:30-7:00pm GMT
Location: Hybrid
Past events
- 2018-19 Seminars
16听January 2019 London鈥檚 Cross Rail 1: Progress & Prospects
Speaker: Geoff Hobbs, Director of Public Service Transport Planning, Transport for London (TfL), London30听January 2019 International Challenges & Lessons in Governance for Megaproject Planning, Appraisal & Delivery
Speaker: M氓ns L枚nnroth, Former State Secretary for Environment & Sometime Board Member of Volvo Research & Education Foundations (VREF), Gothenburg, Sweden20听February 2019 The Thames Tideway Tunnel & Developments in Public Private Partnership (PPP) Arrangements
厂辫别补办别谤:听Mike Pugsley, Finance and Commercial Director, Agilia Infrastructure Partners, London27听February 2019 Nature, Scope & Scale of Global Infrastructure Knowledge Gap: A World Economic Forum Perspective Vangelis, Papakonstantinou, Lead, System Initiative Shaping the Future of Long-term Investing, Infrastructure & Development, World Economic Forum (WEF), Geneva
6听March 2019 The Belt and Road Initiative in South-Eastern Europe: A Focus on Serbian Infrastructure Projects
厂辫别补办别谤:听Pedja Sovilj, Director, Infrastructure Delivery Unit, Office of Prime Minister, Government of Republic of Serbia13听March 2019 HM Treasury鈥檚 New Green Book on Central Government Guidance for Appraisal and Evaluation: Implications for UK鈥檚 New Mega Infrastructure Projects
Speaker: Joseph Lowe, Editor of Green Book, Head of Economics Branch, Public Spending Group, HM Treasury, UK- 2019-20 Seminars
23听October 2019 The Railway Metropolis: How Planners, politicians and developers shaped modern London
厂辫别补办别谤:听, Partner, FCP Rail, London and Senior Advisor to Metrolinx, Toronto20听狈辞惫别尘产别谤听2019 21st Century Megaproject Port Development & Logistics: Prospects & problems in the use of blockchain
厂辫别补办别谤:听, Sometime Director & Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries, World Economic Forum, Geneva4听December 2020听The Sizewell Nuclear Plant: Challenges and prospects of public private-partnership
厂辫别补办别谤:听 Directors, Agilia Infrastructure Partners, London11听顿别肠别尘产别谤听2019 Defining Benefits on Mega Projects 鈥� A way through the fog
厂辫别补办别谤:听Paul Mansell, Independent Advisor to IPA UK; Visiting Senior Lecturer, Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management, 最准的六合彩论坛 & Managing Director, ImpaQt Consulting Ltd29 January听2020听The Belt and Road Initiative in Eastern Europe: A focus on Serbian Infrastructure Projects
Speaker: Pedja Sovilj, Director, Infrastructure Delivery Unit, Office of Prime Minister, Government of Republic of Serbia12听贵别产谤耻补谤测听2020听How Government Built USA鈥檚 wealth and infrastructure: Lessons for 21st Century
厂辫别补办别谤:听Visiting Professor, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, University of Liverpool25听惭补谤肠丑听2020听Toward More Holistic Approaches to Mega Transport Project Appraisal in Latin America: A review of selected IADB case studies,
厂辫别补办别谤:听Juan Alberti, External Consultant to Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C.- 2021-22听厂别尘颈苍补谤蝉
28 October 2021 The Sizewell Nuclear Plant: Challenges & prospects of public private-partnership in UK
厂辫别补办别谤:听Amar Qureshi & Chris Wright, Directors, Agilia Infrastructure Partners, London15 December 2021 Adaptive Regulation and Planning for Utility for Mega Infrastructure Projects: Issues for economic regulation in water and energy
厂辫别补办别谤:听Dr. Martin Hurst, Sustainability First & OMEGA Centre, 最准的六合彩论坛26听January 2022 Toward More Holistic Approaches to Mega Transport Project Appraisal in Latin America: A Lessons from the Bus Rapid Transit Project in Bogota虂, Colombia
厂辫别补办别谤:听Daniel Oviedo, Lecturer in Urban Transport and Development Planning, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, 最准的六合彩论坛23 February 2022 The Two Stories of London鈥檚 Crossrail
厂辫别补办别谤:听Christian Wolmar, Writer and Broadcaster on Transport, London23 March 2022 The 鈥楶ower of Context鈥� and Addressing Risk & Uncertainty in Mega Infrastructure Decisionmaking: What has the global financial crisis, climate change and COVID-19 taught us?
厂辫别补办别谤:听Prof. Harry T. Dimitriou, Bartlett Professor of Planning Studies & Director of OMEGA Centre, 最准的六合彩论坛- 2022-23 Seminars
2 November 2022听The Two Stories of London鈥檚 Crossrail
厂辫别补办别谤:听Christian Wolmar, Writer and Broadcaster on Transport, London听23 November 2022听Re-orienting Development: The dynamics and effects of Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe
厂辫别补办别谤:听Dr. Samuel Rogers, Postdoctoral Research Associate, REDEFINE, School of Social Sciences and Global Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes听7 December 2022听Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus: A Summary of CECAN鈥檚 Research Findings of Relevance to Mega Infrastructure Policy and Planning
Speaker: Prof. Liz Varga, Professor of Complex Systems, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, 最准的六合彩论坛, London听22听February 2023听Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Megaprojects and Sustainable Infrastructure: The role and importance of accounting studies
Speakers: Dr. Laura Corazza, Assistant Professor in Sustainability Accounting and Accountability and听Dr. Dario Cottafava, Post-Doc Research Fellow,听Department of Management, University of Turin8听March 2023听The Cynefin Framework and Megaproject Decision-making
Speaker: Prof. David Snowden, Director and Founder - The Cynefin Centre and CSO, The Cynefin Company, Wales15听March 2023听The 鈥楶ower of Context鈥� and Addressing Risk & Uncertainty in Mega Infrastructure Decisionmaking: What has the global financial crisis, climate change and COVID-19 taught us?
厂辫别补办别谤:听Prof. Harry T. Dimitriou, Bartlett Professor of Planning Studies and Director of OMEGA Centre, 最准的六合彩论坛, London 听- 2023-24 Seminars
11 October 2023听The 鈥楶ower of Context鈥� and Addressing Risk & Uncertainty in Mega Infrastructure Decision-making: What changes in globalisation, climate change and COVID-19 have taught us?
Speakers:听Prof. Harry T. Dimitriou, Bartlett Professor of Planning Studies and Director of OMEGA Centre, 最准的六合彩论坛, Prof. Anthony Costello, Professor of Global Health and Sustainable Development, Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation and Global Engagement), 最准的六合彩论坛听and Prof. Paul Ekins, Professor of Resources and Environment Policy, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources, 最准的六合彩论坛25 October 2023听Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Megaprojects and Sustainable Infrastructure: The role and importance of accounting studies
厂辫别补办别谤:听Professor Laura Corazza, Assistant Professor in Sustainability Accounting and Accountability, Department of Management, University of Turin
Further details about the OMEGA Seminar Programme can be found on the .
Further details of each seminar will be circulated nearer the time.听For enquiries and to join the mailing list, please contact Hanadi Samhan听(hanadi.samhan.18@ucl.ac.uk) or Prof. Harry T. Dimitriou, the Convenor of the OMEGA Seminar Programme (h.dimitriou@ucl.ac.uk).