Mais Lecture
The annual Mais lecture has been hosted since 1978 by Cass Business School, part of City, University of London.
The lecture is named in honour of Lord Mais, the 645th Lord Mayor of the City of London, and Pro-Chancellor of City University, who played a key role in establishing City University's Centre of Excellence for Banking and Finance, now part of the wider .
The annual lecture is regarded as a leading event for the banking and finance community of the City of London, having hosted a number of prestigious speakers including successive Prime Ministers, Chancellors of the Exchequer, and Governors of the Bank of England.
List of Mais lectures
| Lecture | Date | Delivered by | Title |
| First | 9 February 1978 | Gordon Richardson | Reflections on the Conduct of Monetary Policy |
| Second | November 1979 | Lionel Robbins | Objectives of Monetary Policy: Past and Present |
| Third | May 1981 | Geoffrey Howe | The Fight Against Inflation |
| Fourth | March 1983 | Friedrich Hayek | Science and Ethics |
| Fifth | 18 June 1984 | Nigel Lawson | The British Experiment |
| Sixth | May 1986 | Roy Jenkins | The International Finance Scene: Can Sense be Plucked Out of Danger |
| Seventh | May 1987 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton | The Instruments of Monetary Policy |
| Eighth | May 1988 | Michel Camdessus | The IMF in a Changing World |
| Ninth | May 1989 | Samuel Brittan | A Restatement of Economic Liberalism |
| Tenth | May 1990 | Gordon Pepper | Monetary Policy: A Post-Mortem and Proposal |
| Eleventh | May 1992 | Economic and Monetary Union: The Case for Central Bank Independence | |
| Twelfth | June 1993 | Peter Lilley | Benefits and Costs: Securing and Future of Social Security |
| Thirteenth | May 1994 | Kenneth Clarke | The Changing World of Work in the 1990s |
| Fourteenth | 22 May 1995 | Tony Blair | The Economic Framework for New Labour |
| Fifteenth | October 1996 | Michael Heseltine | Achieving Competitiveness in a Global Economy |
| Sixteenth | 24 June 1997 | Edward George | Monetary Policy in Britain and Europe |
| Seventeenth | May 1998 | Hans Tietmeyer | Financial and Monetary Integration: Benefits, Opportunities, and Pitfalls |
| Eighteenth | October 1999 | Gordon Brown | The Conditions for Full Employment |
| Nineteenth | May 2000 | Jonathan Sacks | Markets, Governments, and Virtues |
| Twentieth | May 2001 | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | The New European Debate: The Euro-zone and the Greater Europe |
| Twenty-first | April 2003 | Ernst Welteke | Reflections on European Monetary Policy |
| Twenty-second | 12 May 2004 | Otmar Issing | The Euro: the First Five Years |
| Twenty-third | 17 May 2005 | Mervyn King | Monetary Policy: Practice Ahead of Theory |
| Twenty-fourth | 29 October 2008 | Alistair Darling | Chancellor Reveals His Plans to Maintain Economic Stability |
| Twenty-fifth | 13 May 2009 | Axel A. Weber | Reflections on the Financial Crisis |
| Twenty-sixth | 24 February 2010 | George Osborne | A New Economic Model |
| Twenty-seventh | July 2011 | Paul Volcker | The World of Finance and the National Interest |
| Twenty-eighth | 8 May 2012 | Patrick Honohan | The Experience of Financial Integration – Ireland, Britain, Europe |
| Twenty-ninth | 18 March 2014 | Mark Carney | One Mission. One Bank. Promoting the Good of the People of the United Kingdom. |
| Thirtieth | 7 October 2015 | Olivier Blanchard | Rethinking Macro Policy |
| Thirty-first | 12 June 2017 | Brian Griffiths | Restoring Trust in the Banking System |
| Thirty-second | 29 October 2018 | José Manuel Barroso | The European Union and the Changing International Landscape |