Our quarterly series of international speaker events continues on Wednesday, 17 September 2025 in the RDS Members Club as we welcome Karthik Ramanna, author of The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World.

Professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of Oxford and an expert on business-government relations, sustainable capitalism, and corporate reporting and auditing, Professor Ramanna studies how organizations and leaders build trust with stakeholders. His scholarship has won numerous awards, including the Journal of Accounting & Economics Best Paper Prize, the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey Prize for ‘ground-breaking management thinking,’ and three times the international Case Centre’s prizes for ‘outstanding case-writing,’ dubbed by the Financial Times as ‘the business school Oscars.’

Previously, Professor Ramanna taught at the Harvard Business School in both the MBA and senior executive-education programs. He has a doctorate from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

In his latest book, Professor Ramanna offers a framework for managing stakeholder outrage that draws on analytical insights from disciplines as wide-ranging as the science of aggression, managerial economics, organizational behaviour, and political philosophy.

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