You are cordially invited to a Networking Luncheon featuring guest speaker Tim Jarvis, polar explorer, author, film maker and environmental scientist. Tim is best known for his polar expeditions. Tim retraced, in 2007, Sir Douglas Mawson’s famous antarctic track using the same clothing, equipment and starvation rations as Mawson had available to him in 1912. Then, in 2013, Tim and five companions recreated the greatest survival journey of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton's "double", sailing a small replica lifeboat 1'500 km across the Southern Ocean from Elephant Island, Antarctica, to the island of South Georgia, and climbing over South Georgia's mountainous interior, all again done using the same rudimentary equipment and period clothing.

We expect the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to be the most watched live television broadcast since the one showing the first man walking on the surface of the Moon. U.S. presidential elections have always attracted worldwide interest. The upcoming election is, however, especially consequential. In an increasingly insecure world, it matters who will lead next its most powerful and indispensable nation. The presidential debates and election touch upon many areas of interest to social scientists: from political culture to constitutional law, from demographics to social policy, from geopolitics to communal conflicts.

New and returning LSE students, you are cordially invited, prior to going up to London, to link up with alumnae and alumni of the School for some insider information on life in London and thereafter. All students will enjoy complimentary supper, courtesy of LSE alumnae and alumni. Students are welcome to bring their parents or siblings with them.

LSE alumnae and alumni, especially the graduating classes of recent years, come to connect with the older alums and to wish our new and returning students a "bon voyage" for their LSE journey, giving them some tips to make the best out of their time at the School.

Our boat is always recruiting paddlers of all abilities for various races throughout the year. We field mixed crews of female and male paddlers in recreational race categories and always have free spots. Camaraderie, fitness and fun are our aims. Never have paddled before in a dragon boat? No problem, you will be instructed. The London Dragons would be delighted to welcome you as our newest recruit.

The themes of our Annual Reunions always have had a social sciences angle. This will not be different for Reunion '16. We will visit the fascinating Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva and enjoy a guided tour of their new special exhibition on the prehistoric means of exchange. The Museum's collection contains over 7'000 artifacts and includes works of art from tribal and classical antiquity as well as sculptures, fabrics and ornaments from "primitive" civilisations around the world. It is the largest collection of its kind in the world. Many of its works are considered to be unqualified masterpieces. The Museum has gained international acclaim through its itinerant exhibitions, its loans to other museums, and the publication of numerous catalogues and art books.

At our General Meeting, we will look back on our very successful 17th year of operation and will look forward to new projects pursued by and for the membership. Join us to have your say in the running of one of the most active independent and autonomous national associations of LSE alumnae and alumni worldwide.

The world's longest railway tunnel will open in June 2016 and alumnae and alumni from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) will be there to witness this momentous occasion in person.

You are cordially invited to a Networking Luncheon featuring Ian Paisley, Jr., Member of United Kingdom Parliament for North Antrim and a key negotiator of Northern Ireland's new political arrangements

By special arrangement, LSE alumnae and alumni will be going to the Landsgemeinde Appenzell Innerrhoden

You are cordially invited to a Networking Luncheon featuring guest speaker Patrick Odier, Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association and Senior Managing Partner of Lombard Odier Group, Geneva, who will outline the current developments on the Swiss financial centres

You are cordially invited to a Networking Luncheon featuring guest speaker Anthony Browne, Chief Executive Officer of the British Bankers' Association, who will bring us up to date on the nature of balance in the current regulatory agenda, the prospects for an internationally harmonized approach, a new settlement for banks which are internationally active and on the role of proportionality

LSE alumnae and alumni will be hitting the rink for some ice skating fun and retire to a fine dinner

You are cordially invited to a Networking Event with Peter Voser, Chairman of ABB, who will present that, given the increasingly competitive international environment, companies wanting to remain successful in future must significantly boost their capacity to innovate, especially in the age of digitisation, which offers enormous opportunities but also presents challenges