On 24th February 2016, Lord O'Neill delivered our 11th Roberts Lecture, entitled 'What next for cities and the Northern Powerhouse?'

Lord O’Neill, who is championing the Northern Powerhouse in his role as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, studied at our University in the 1970s and is perhaps best known for for coining the term BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) during his time at Goldman Sachs to acknowledge the new powers in the world’s economy.