Ms. Hughes is not alone on the high-profile lecture circuit.
The Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series, which dates to 1957, is among MIT's highest-profile lecture events.
Andy Hornby, chief executive of HBOS when it had to be rescued by Lloyds, is now chief executive of privately owned pharmacy business Alliance Boots and will tonight deliver a high-profile lecture on retailing.
Despite his admiration for Duflo, Deaton has become increasingly wary of the fashion for randomization — to the point where, at the end of 2008, he found himself giving a high-profile lecture in London that began with two photographs on a PowerPoint slide.
In addition, Club Biotech has created a new, high-profile lecture series called "The Club Biotech Lectures".
The University of Oxford's English faculty is hosting Speak the Speech, a series of high-profile lectures in unusual spaces.
He gave a series of high-profile lectures on issues of the day, addressing early on the 2003 Iraq war, an action that he considered to be "a serious violation of international law".
Former lord chief justice Lord Judge and three other senior British judges have recently backed this stance in high-profile lectures, arguing that by treating the convention as a "living instrument" the ECHR is "undermining democracy".
This self-reported adoption data is confirmed by classroom observations (Table 8), which produced overwhelmingly instructor-centered distribution of COPUS profiles (lecturing, 69%%, and Socratic instruction, 17%%) at the expense of student-centered COPUS profiles (peer instruction, 13%%).
It is the social commentator Polly Toynbee who supplies imagery that is more appropriate for Conservative social policy in the twenty first century". His policy paper comes days before Mr Cameron gives the high-profile Scarman lecture on poverty on Friday, in which the Tory leader is likely to endorse Mr Clark's central themes.
Using a high-profile annual lecture on Chinese-American relations to make his final public address as ambassador, Mr. Huntsman said bluntly that prominent Chinese activists had been unfairly detained or jailed, naming Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for "subversion," and Ai Weiwei, the Beijing artist who was taken into custody on Sunday.
