Events

Peter is the UK’s leading procurement specialist. He will be sharing stories from his new book of buying and corporate supply chains gone wrong with focus on how the UK government have it got it so wrong with PPE, ventilators, the NHSX app – and even HS2 and Crossrail. Peter will also touch on procurement and supply chain technology and where he sees the best opportunities for new technology that can help organizations AVOID Bad Buying.

Expounding on themes from his recent book, America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Robert will be discussing the strategic and immediate challenges of U.S. foreign policy during this era of transformation.

The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where politics in the US and the UK has been consumed with inward-facing struggles, countries like South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, as well as China, have made extraordinary advances economically, technologically and politically.

John and Adrian will be explaining how we ended up in this mess and exploring the possible routes out. If Western governments respond creatively to the crisis, they will have a chance of reversing decades of decline; if they dither and delay while Asia continues to improve, the prospect of a new Eastern-dominated world order will increase.

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, Ambassador Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a White House memoir like no other.

In conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, John will be sharing the highs and the lows, the turmoil and the conflict.