Shortlisted for the FT’s Business Book of the Year, Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together, demystifies our tribal instincts and shows us how to use them to create positive change. Bracing and hopeful, Tribal unlocks the deepest secrets of our psychology and gives us the tools to manage our misunderstood superpower.

Sport is becoming big business, creating an exciting, emerging asset class. Joining us to bring clarity to the opportunities and pitfalls, we are delighted to be hosting legendary ex Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis, and Fergus Bell, co-founder of The Players Fund, a London based sports focussed VC firm.

Record your sleep. Measure your blood sugar. Drink red wine. Don’t drink red wine. Take metformin, resveratrol and regular ice baths. Longevity is the biggest trend in health and wellness at the moment, with apps, wearables, supplements and influencers all vying for our attention, but what are the hidden essentials that can actually keep us healthier for longer? And what should we measure and prioritise as individuals?

We bring together the Presidents of two of the world’s leading universities, each of them immensely accomplished academics with exceptional track records, to discuss the future of tertiary education, the role of universities in addressing the major challenges our societies face, and the complexities of campus politics.

Sonia joins us to discuss the remarkable life of Pamela Harriman. There is practically no-one in twentieth-century politics, culture and fashion whose lives she did not touch. From seducing Americans during World War II at the behest of her father-in-law, Winston Churchill, to plucking Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulting him to the presidency, her influence knew no bounds.

Will each of the 4 trillion seeds in the US corn market have its own ‘prescription’ for fertiliser, pesticide, planting? How will space assets orchestrate food production on Earth? Will autonomous equipment change the shape of farming? How are better indoor and outdoor location technologies bottlenecks for food production? Sophie will explore the opportunities presented to agriculture as the industry grapples with a changing climate, desperate demographics, and novel technologies.

Anthony is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio. Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Earlier, he worked in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co. Anthony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a board member of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. He is the author of five books. He served on President Donald J. Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee, and in 2017 briefly served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank and White House Communications Director.

The World Economic Forum (20-24 Jan 2025) brings together leaders from governments, business, civil society and science to discuss the most pressing issues of the day and the outlook going forward. Børge brings us the round-up, the untold stories and his hopes and fears for the future.

Conspiracy theorists. Incels. White Nationalists. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum. Today, accelerated by the polycrisis of the pandemic, economic crisis, global conflict and rapid technological change, their ideas are becoming more widespread. Based on Julia’s undercover investigations for her latest book Going Mainstream, she explores: why outlandish ideas have taken hold and conspiracy myths are spreading faster than ever and, how, united by a shared sense of grievance and skepticism about institutions, radicalised individuals are influencing the mainstream as never before.

Today’s domestic and international volatility reminds us that our current global indices ignore the most important metric for ranking nations: stability. The newly released Periodic Table of States (PTOS) fixes that. Find out which countries are the real role models for the world and why — and whether stability is a good barometer for investors.

Throughout recorded human time, few places on Earth have inspired as much fascination as the North Pole. Blending memoir from his intrepid journey to the North Pole in 1990, along with history, philosophy and a stark warning about melting ice, Erling offers a profound meditation about nature and our place within it.

Alastair is the 696th Lord Mayor of London having served as Aldermanic Sheriff from 2022-2023. Alastair started his career at leading international law firm Baker & McKenzie in London and in Asia. He later held senior positions at SPARK Ventures (formally NewMedia SPARK PLC) a pioneering technology venture capital company in London, and was Managing Director at Galahad Capital Plc. Alastair is the founder and Chairman of Naisbitt King Asset Management Limited (NKAML), an FCA-authorised asset management company, specialising in managing segregated portfolios of investment grade fixed income securities. In addition, he is Chair of the British Liver Trust and Secretary of the UK Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sovereign Wealth Funds. He is also Chair of the Institute of Directors, London Region.

Andy is the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts. He was formerly Chief Economist at the Bank of England and a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee. He was the Permanent Secretary for Levelling Up at the Cabinet Office from September 2021 to March 2022. Andrew is Founder and President of the charity Pro Bono Economics, Vice-Chair of the charity National Numeracy and Chair of the National Numeracy Leadership Council. Andrew chairs the Government’s Levelling Up Advisory Council and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre’s Industrial Board. He is contributing editor at the Financial Times and Chief Economic Advisor at PwC. Among other positions, he is Honorary Professor at the Universities of Nottingham, Manchester and Exeter, Visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Social Services.

Chris is Chair of the National Wealth Fund and of Evelyn Partners, the wealth management company. He is a member of the Board of Melrose plc, the aerospace company and will become its Chair early next year. In his executive career Chris was most recently CEO of British Land. Before that, he was CEO of Barclays’ Commercial Bank. Chris’ earlier career was spent at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Partner and at Morgan Grenfell. Chris has a MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.