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Wednesday 15 September 2021
12:30

Roula Khalaf

Editor of the Financial Times

A Global Perspective

Few people are better placed to offer an insightful view on the rapidly changing world around us.

Wednesday 9 June 2021
12:30

Amanda Fielding

Founder of the Beckley Foundation

Psychedelics

Since its creation by Amanda Feilding in 1998, the Beckley Foundation has been at the forefront of global drug policy reform and scientific research into psychoactive substances. Amanda joins us to tell us more about the collaborations with leading scientific and political institutions worldwide to design and develop ground-breaking research and global policy initiatives.

Tuesday 29 June 2021
12:30

Thomas Heatherwick

British Designer and Founder of Heatherwick Studio

The Future of the Workplace and Current Design Projects

Thomas will share thoughts on the future of the workplace and discuss recent and upcoming projects and design inspirations, expanding on the major issues his Studio is thinking about in 2021.

Wednesday 11 March 2020
12:30

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Morality: Restoring the common good in divided times

We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other, but neither is capable of bearing the moral weight of showing us how to live.

This has had a profound impact on society and the way in which we interact with each other. Traditional values no longer hold, yet recent political swings show that modern ideals of tolerance have left many feeling rudderless and adrift. In this environment we see things fall apart in unexpected ways. The influence of social media seems all-pervading and the breakdown of the family is only one result of the loss of social capital. Many fear what the future may hold.

Delivering a devastatingly insightful critique of our modern condition, and assessing its roots and causes from the ancient Greeks through the Reformation and Enlightenment to the present day, Rabbi Sacks argues that there is no liberty without morality, and no freedom without responsibility.

Thursday 9 January 2020
12:30

Why we eat too much

Dr Andrew Jenkinson

Modern nutrition has failed us. We have more choice in the food we eat than ever before, but less quality. We endlessly diet, yet are hungrier and fatter than ever. So where did it all go wrong, and what can we do?

For over two decades, bariatric surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. His new book combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism to illuminate how our appetite really works.

Debunking the great myths of the body, and systematically explaining why dieting is counter-productive, Dr Jenkinson investigates every aspect of nutrition. From the difference between good and bad fats to the impact of genes and genetic mutation on our weight and what happens to our hormones long after a diet ends, the book explores the fields of agriculture, pharma, anthropology and medicine to uncover the truth behind our bad food habits and the escalating obesity crisis.

Wednesday 12 February 2020
12:30

Ian Bremmer

Top risks and trends shaping the world in 2020

Ian is credited with bringing the craft of political risk to financial markets – he created Wall Street’s first global political risk index – and for establishing political risk as an academic discipline.

At this event he will talk about the three key themes shaping the world today (the rise of China, AI and climate change) as well as other Top Risks that we face as we head into 2020.

Wednesday 4 December 2019
12:30

Biodiversity

Dr Jonny Keeling, Producer of Planet Earth, and Dr Alex Schnell of Cambridge University

To coincide with the new BBC series on biodiversity (Seven Worlds – One Planet), we are hosting a lunch to explain what is at stake in the battle against biodiversity loss.

Recent reports from the UN show that around a million species are now threatened with extinction. What are the main drivers of biodiversity loss? What does this loss mean for the human species? And how might we think of halting – and eventually reversing – this downward trend?

Wednesday 4 March 2020
12:30

Kathryn Sullivan

Kathryn D. Sullivan, Astronaut and former US Under Secretary of Commerce

In her new memoir, the first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding.

Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a “Sputnik Baby,” her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of “thirty-five new guys.” (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA’s storied astronaut corps.)

Tuesday 26 November 2019
12:30

Michael O’Sullivan

Michael O'Sullivan, author of The Levelling

The world is at a turning point. While globalization benefited many, it also produced extremes including drastic wealth inequality, indebtedness, and political volatility. In its wake, we see disorderly events such as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump – the harbingers of a world turned upside down.

In his recent book, Michael O’Sullivan paints a picture of how a new world order will evolve. He foresees the levelling-out of: wealth between rich and poor countries; power between nations and regions; political accountability and responsibility between political leaders and “the people”; and institutional power – away from central banks and defunct twentieth-century institutions such as the WTO and IMF.

Monday 16 September 2019
12:30

Roger McNamee

Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook catastrophe

If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying democracy, he would have howled with laughter. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund’s bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg.

Zucked is McNamee’s intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world’s most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. It’s a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. First there is the author’s dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share his concerns, polite as they may be to his face.

And then comes Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, and the emergence of one horrific piece of news after another about the malign ends to which the Facebook platform has been put.

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12:30

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07:45

Robert D. Kaplan

Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis

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