The Adam Smith Institute

As part of this year’s economics UPP week, were delighted to welcome as guest speaker Maxwell Marlow Director of Research at the Adam Smith Institute, who spoke on UK Economic history an gave an in-depth analysis of the UK housing market. He also hosted a Q&A session where students were able to discuss career options in economics, the nature of the think tank world and current economic issues in a way that was both engaging and very enlightening. Maxwell has offered a week’s work experience at the Adam Smith Institute for the winner of our in-house essay competition that is being run this week.

We were also very pleased later in the week to welcome back former students Krishane, Divy, Ayush, Karun, Varakan, Varnan, Divy and Karun who took part in sessions devoted to practice interviews for those current Wilson’s students particularly interested in applying for Oxford and Cambridge. Our distinguished visitors concluded their visit with a very well-received open forum session where each presenter discussed their academic career to date and took questions from the floor. To top the University Preparation Week experience, we were particularly pleased to enjoy the presence of former students Yi, Liam, Hughie and Armand (all Cambridge graduates) who made themselves available to assist students with university level maths questions. This level of intense preparation will undoubtably help our Oxbridge candidates when interview time comes, so we are very grateful to all our ex-students for the enthusiasm and technical ability they demonstrated in helping our students.

The staff and students of Wilson’s would like to thank Maxwell and our alumni for their contributions to what was a very worthwhile culmination to a year of intense economic endeavour in the school.

Here is some feedback from students:

‘The seminars delivered by Maxwell were highly engaging and informative, allowing me to learn more about the nature of the UK housing market and the economic history of Britain. It was also useful in exploring the different ways to get involved with the Adam Smith Institute and other internships and the importance of networking and meeting new people to gain useful experience and valuable opportunities’. Ibrahim

‘An inspirational talk that I found surprisingly accessible considering the level of expertise that was evident on account of the amount of detail there was throughout. Maxwell spoke both clearly and concisely managing to cover a wide range of topics whilst also being able to put across his main points extremely well’. Caleb

Today’s seminar really enhanced my knowledge about the UK economy, both in the past and the future. I found it interesting how the market economy changed over time and this seminar encouraged me to want to research and find out more about the UK market economy as well as the housing market. The speaker, Maxwell, also inspired me with how much he has achieved in his career and the impact his job has had already. Nithin

Feedback from Maxwell Marlow (Adam Smith Institute): ‘I had a fantastic time speaking to your students earlier today. There were questions that I would have expected in a Master's seminar, never mind from Lower Sixth students. It was great to see students engaging with the material and asking critical questions and engaging in healthy debate. It brings a lot of hope to us as economists and in Westminster that such bright minds are going to build up Britain.’