đź“… 25 November 2025
London, United Kingdom
Join European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Tuesday 25 November 2025 at 16.00 (London time) for the launch of the Transition Report 2025-26 in the Auditorium at Five Bank Street, London E14 4BG.
The discussion, moderated by Richard Porter, EBRD Managing Director of Communications, features:
- Professor Sarah Harper CBE, Clore Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
- Eghosa Omoigui, founder and Managing General Partner of EchoVC Partners
- Dr Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute
- Beata Javorcik, EBRD Chief Economist.
The launch will be followed by a drinks reception at 17.30.
Entitled Brave old world, the Transition Report 2025-26 looks at demographic change and its profound implications for rapidly ageing economies, as well as economies with young, fast-growing populations. It outlines recent demographic trends, including declining fertility rates, and presents broad strategies that policymakers could deploy in response. These centre on prolonging productive working lives, boosting automation and exploiting migration. The analysis focuses on artificial intelligence and migration policies in the EBRD regions and beyond, as well as ways in which demographic change shapes policy preferences and societal beliefs.
