Exclusive"For LSE, it was important to remain part of Civica alliance after Brexit" (J. Black to News Tank)

"For London Business School (LSE), it was incredibly important to remain part of Civica after Brexit. Academia, scholarship, research, and education are a global endeavour, and international collaborations are critical to that endeavour. They improve the quality of research and education because of the interaction with people from different cultures and places, with different perspectives", says Julia Black, President of the British Academy, Warden of Nuffield College (UK), and former Strategic Director of Innovation at LSE, on 07/05/2025.

She talks to News Tank during the Civica Global Forum, which takes place on 06 and 07/05/2025 at IE University (Madrid). Civica is a European alliance of ten institutions specialising in the social sciences, including LSE.

Julia Black says she "argued very much" for LSE's entry into Civica : "This was a key opportunity that we needed to seize." Then, after Brexit, "even though there was no financial benefit at the LSE to be part of Civica, it was regarded as an immensely valuable initiative, both in terms of the contributions we could make and the…