Events
Daniel Levy, President of the US / Middle East Project
What has the Trump presidency done for the Middle East? Between escalating tensions with Iran and legacy policies on Israel / Palestine, are regional geopolitics being reshaped?
As the 74th UN General Assembly comes to a close, join Daniel Levy, President of the US / Middle East Project, to gain a better understanding of what is at stake.
Siege: Trump under fire
With Fire and Fury, Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and explosive book about a presidency that is under fire from almost every side.
A stunningly fresh narrative that begins just as Trump’s second year as president is getting underway, and ends with the delivery of the Mueller report, Siege reveals an administration that is perpetually beleaguered by investigations and a president who is increasingly volatile, erratic, and exposed.
US National Editor, the Financial Times
With the race for the 2020 election hotting up, Ed Luce will give us an update from Washington. What are the chances of Trump being re-elected and who will he most likely be running against?
Margaret Heffernan on why we ignore the obvious at our peril
Wilful Blindness was first published in 2011; the Financial Times called it one of the most important books of the decade. Largely inspired by the banking crisis and the crisis in the Catholic Church in Ireland, the book has gone on to be required reading in many institutions around the world: in finance, manufacturing, accounting, government and the law.
Margaret has now updated the book as events – Grenfell Tower, Rotherham, Wells Fargo, General Motors, VW, Brexit and Trump – keep so resoundingly proving her thesis. The new edition includes material on these and other examples, together with a new section on whistleblowers, antidotes and prevention.
Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg News
John oversees editorial content across all Bloomberg platforms, including its news, newsletters, magazines, opinion, television, radio and digital properties, as well as its research services including Bloomberg Intelligence.
Bloomberg News has over 2,400 news and multimedia professionals that produce more than 5,000 stories daily. These are distributed on Bloomberg.com and syndicated to over 1,000 media outlets in more than 60 countries.
Former Minister of State at the Department for Transport and Minister for London
Jo served as a Government Minister for 6 years until his resignation over Brexit in November.
His last Ministerial role was as Minister of State at the Department for Transport, and also Minister for London. From May 2015 – January 2018 he served as Minister of State for Universities & Science. Before this he was Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit and Chair of the Prime Minister’s Policy Board, from April 2013 until May 2015, as well as Parliamentary Secretary, then Minister of State in the Cabinet Office.
Prior to his election to Parliament in 2010, Jo spent thirteen years at the Financial Times, working in a variety of roles, including Associate Editor & Editor of The Lex Column, South Asia Bureau Chief (2005-2008) and Paris Correspondent.
Radical Help: How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state
In 1942, the Beveridge Report laid the foundations for the UK’s welfare state. Seventy five years later, Hilary Cottam presents a new approach that will help rebuild the institutions that underpin society, based around human connections.
Hilary is an internationally acclaimed social entrepreneur whose work in communities around the world focuses on collaborative, affordable solutions to 21st century challenges: employment, ageing and chronic disease. Transformation is achieved through approaches that emphasise human relationships supported by technology.
Hilary’s recent book Radical Help argues that the Fourth Industrial Revolution needs an accompanying social revolution and sets out a new social welfare framework.
Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union
To kick off the year, join us to hear from the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU about where we are in preparations for Brexit.
in conversation with Owen Jones about his new book The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Big Short, Moneyball and Liar’s Poker, comes to the how to: Academy stage with his explosive exposé of the chaos and mismanagement taking place in the White House under the Trump administration.
His new book The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy, reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and corruption that is fuelling the destruction of a country’s fabric and exposes Trump’s attempts to privatise and profit from publicly funded assets.
Michael will be in conversation with Guardian columnist Owen Jones, on the day after the US mid-term elections. Join us for what promises to be a fascinating insight into the state of America today.
Ambassador John D. Negroponte with Bill Antholis and Chris Lu
The American presidency is at a crossroads. Significant turning points present themselves today – not just to President Trump and his team, but also to recent and future presidencies.
While campaigning for the presidency, Donald Trump promised to be a disrupter – to “shake up” American politics and policy – both at home and abroad. To what extent has this taken place? How have domestic and international forces shaped American politics? From NAFTA to TPP, what are the effects of a Trump presidency on global trade? What is America’s role in a changing international landscape?
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