EMS News

2017 Emerging Markets Symposium topic announced
The Emerging Markets Symposium (EMS) was established in 2008 to consider solutions to ‘wicked’ problems of human welfare in emerging markets (1). The problems are complex, defy easy answers but demand attention because they menace growth,... Read more

EMS Executive Director and EMS participants address the Global Youth Forum 2016 at the World Bank
Ian Scott, the Emerging Markets Symposium's Executive Director, and EMS participants Jo Boyden and George Patton all spoke at the Global Youth Forum, 13-15 June 2016 in Washington, D.C.. The Global Youth Forum is organised by The World Bank Group... Read more
'Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets' Report launched at the House of Lords in London
This year’s Emerging Markets Symposium Report, Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets, was launched in the House of Lords, London, on Tuesday 24 May, 2016. The report urges emerging market country governments to address the specific... Read more

New report from the EMS on Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets to be launched 24 May in the House of Lords, London
The latest EMS report, Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets, will be launched on 24 May in the House of Lords, London.
Speakers will include Professor Jo Boyden, Director of Oxford University’s Young Lives Research Centre and... Read more

EMS Symposium Urges Investment in Youth
40 leading international experts were joined by a dozen young graduate students from Green Templeton College for the seventh annual EMS symposium which this year (7- 10 January) focused on Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets.... Read more
Brazil launch of EMS report on Ageing in Emerging Markets at the International Longevity Global Alliance
The Third International Longevity Forum organized by the International Longevity Global Alliance and hosted by the International Longevity Centre, Brazil, took place in Rio de Janeiro on 21 and 22 October 2015.
The conference was attended... Read more

Ageing in Emerging Markets – Summary and Conclusions now available available in Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese
The EMS has published the Summary and Conclusions from the Symposium on Ageing in Emerging Markets in Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese and are now available on this website . To download visit http://ems.gtc.ox.ac.uk/ems-... Read more

Czech launch of EMS Ageing report in Prague
In the first of a series of regional launches around the world, the EMS Ageing in Emerging Markets report was the focus of a special session at the Ageing and Alzheimers conference held in Prague on 17 August. The main speaker at the event, which... Read more

New report from the EMS on Ageing in Emerging Markets launched 30 June in the House of Lords, London
A new report, Ageing in Emerging Markets, from the Emerging Markets Symposium at Green Templeton College, Oxford was launched on 30 June in the House of Lords, London. The launch was hosted by Baroness Goudie, a regular EMS participant. The... Read more

Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets announced as subject for EMS 2016
The Emerging Markets Symposium in January 2016 will focus on Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets. Previous symposia on Maternal and Child Health (2014) and Ageing (2015) have addressed challenges and opportunities associated with the... Read more