ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2026

Registrations close 5 May 2026

ESCoE will hold its annual conference, organised in partnership with the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), on 19-21 May 2026 at King’s Business School, King’s College London. 

The conference is free to attend and will be held in person.

Keynote speakers include:

• Carol Corrado (Senior Policy Scholar, Center for Business and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University)
  
• André Loranger (Chief Statistician of Canada, Statistics Canada)
  
• Michael McMahon (Professor of Economics, University of Oxford)

Join us for discussions on recent research advances in economic measurement and statistics.

Please see additional information attached on the right hand side of this page, including important new guidance for those travelling from overseas.

Conference dinner

There will be a conference dinner at 17:45 on Wednesday, 20 May. The cost for the dinner is £50, with a discount available for ONS delegates. If you would like to attend, please indicate your interest when registering for the conference. Please note that the dinner must be paid for in advance through King’s College London eStore, as bookings will not be accepted on the day.

The programme includes papers on many aspects of the measurement and use of economic statistics, focusing on:

• Inclusive wealth measures and looking beyond GDP
• Net-zero, climate change and the environment
• National Accounts, including price measurement
• Globalisation
• Productivity and innovation, including public sector productivity
• Developing methodologies for new data sources
• Labour markets, households and inequality
• Subnational statistics
• Communicating and valuing economic statistics

Scientific Committee Chairs: 

• Stephen Hansen (University College London and ESCoE) 
• Liz McKeown (Office for National Statistics)  
• Paul Schreyer (ESCoE) 

We will make every effort to minimise changes to the programme, but it will remain subject to change at any time prior to the conference. Please ensure you allow for changes to the programme when making your travel arrangements.

If you are presenting at the conference (in any capacity), the deadline to register is 24 April 2026.

For any questions, please contact us at economicmeasurement2026@ESCoE.ac.uk.

We look forward to welcoming you to this year’s conference.