Welcome to the Warwick Economics Summit 2023! We were delighted to host Henrietta H. Fore, Former Executive Director of UNICEF!

Henrietta H. Fore has been a recognised leader in the United Nations, business, non-profit organisations and the United States Government. From 2018 to 2022, Ms. Fore served as Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), working in 192 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential. A $7 billion agency with a staff of over 20,000 works in health, education, nutrition, water, sanitation and protection. Innovation hubs in 5 thematic areas are opening in 5 countries. Programs include the world’s largest procurement and delivery of childhood and COVID vaccines and connecting every school and learner to distance learning and the internet to reimagine education with foundational, transferable, occupational and digital skills.

The Warwick Economics Summit (WES) is the largest student-run Economics summit in Europe. Now having run for nearly two decades, the Summit has evolved in form and stature into a truly international forum where talented students from various universities listen to some of the world's most revered and inspirational speakers on a wide range of topics.