[INVITATION] IEA In Conversation with Lord Moynihan of Chelsea OBE
Return to Growth: How to Fix the Economy
The IEA will be hosting an upcoming event with Lord Moynihan on his book, “Return to Growth: How to Fix the Economy”. This event will take place on Thursday 27th March from 18:00 – 20:00 at the IEA Westminster offices. Tom Clougherty, the IEA’s Executive Director, will chair this event.
The acclaimed Return to Growth Volume One by Lord Moynihan, addressed the mystery of why growth has deserted western democracies like the UK and wrote a tough prescription to cure our economic ills.
Continuing his vital examination in Volume Two, Moynihan looks at the excuses of our stagnation, reminding readers of the three ‘devils’ that affect our ability to achieve growth – high government spending, excessive tax and regulation, and too much bureaucratic interference and waste – and finding that the new UK government shows no sign of addressing them. He then isolates and delves into the three crucial ‘angels’ that support economic growth that we urgently need to embrace – free markets, free trade and sound money.
In this manifesto for economic change, Moynihan combines his business acuity with a profound political overview, making an authoritative moral case for action, outlining the steps we can take to reverse our decline and avert impending economic disaster.
Lord Moynihan is a businessman and venture capitalist who started his career advising companies and banks in the Netherlands, the US and the UK as a specialist in mergers and turnarounds. He then ran the global firm PA Consulting Group for twenty-one years. He subsequently transitioned into venture startups, creating over twenty companies to date, most of them in the science and technology fields.
Jon has worked as a volunteer in the charity sector all his life, including in Bangladeshi refugee camps and other developing countries; in educational think tanks, both managing and fundraising for charities; and in the arts sector, where among other activities he was president of the Royal Albert Hall for a number of years. Jon sits in the House of Lords as Baron Moynihan of Chelsea.
Date: Thursday 27th March 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Location: 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB