Speaker Bio

Larry Kramer is President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, he served as President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2012-24, and before that spent most of his career in the academy, most recently as the 15th Dean of Stanford Law School. Larry has taught and researched American law and legal history at several top universities, and was a law clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States following his education. He serves as board chair of iCivics and has been a director on the boards of numerous nonprofit organisations.