World Affairs Programme 2013-2014

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October 3rd

Professor Rana Mitter

Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China

University of Oxford

‘China: Where Next?’

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October 10th

Prof Andrew Balmford FRS

Professor of Conservation Science

University of Cambridge

‘Nature’s Glass: Half-full or Half-empty’

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October  17th

Stephen O’Brien MP

Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Sahel

‘Beating Malaria’

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October 24th

Professor Lord Winston

Prof of Science and Society, Imperial College London

The Threat Of Mankind's Best Ideas

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October 31st

Ben Dyson

Director

Positive Money

Positive Money: How We Should Change the UK Banking System’

 

November 7th

Lord Maurice Glasman

House of Lords

Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, London Metropolitan University

'Workers of the World: Blue Labour's Foreign Policy'

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November 14th

Professor Nicola Phillips

Prof in Political Economy      

University of Sheffield

‘Human Trafficking in a Global Economy’

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November 21st

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles

Former UK Ambassador to Israel, Saudi, Afghanistan

‘Folly in Foreign Policy: an Afghan Case Study’

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November 28th

Dr Tristram Hunt MP

Member Slct Comm Political and Constitutional Reform

Shadow Education Spokesman

‘Cities of Empire:
British Colonialism and its Urban Legacy’ 

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December 5th

Dr Ghada Karmi

Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

University of Exeter

A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

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December 12th

Richard Dowden

Executive Director, Royal African Society

‘Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles’

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December 19th

David Marsh CBE

Chairman OMFIF & SCCO International, Hon Prof

University of Birmingham

‘The Curse of the Euro’

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 2014

January 9th

2014

Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE

Professor of Pharmacology University of Oxford

‘The Brain of The Future’

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January 16th

Werner Sabiers

German Embassy

'All Change In German Politics?'

 

January 23rd

Owen Tudor

Head of European Union and International Relations,

TUC

‘Getting the world to work: a 21st century role for trade unions’

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January 30th

Frances Cook OBE

Chief Executive, Howard League for Penal Reform

‘A Brighter Future For Justice’

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February 6th

Prof Beverley Milton-Edwards

Prof of Politics

Queens University Belfast

‘Hamas in the wake of the Arab Awakening’

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February 13th

Peter Riddell CBE

Director, Institute for Government; former editor & journalist: FT and The Times

‘Better Government: How To Transform Whitehall’

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February 20th

Lynne Berry OBE

Visiting Professor CASS, Former CEO of WRVS &

Charity Commission

‘Whose Voluntary Sector Is It Anyway?’

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February 27th

Prof Jenny Pearce

Prof of Latin American Politics, University of Bradford

‘Why is Latin America

one of the most violent

regions of the world?’

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March 6th

Dr Liz Davies

Reader in Child Protection: London Metropolitan University

‘The Politics Of Child Protection’

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March 13th

Prof Jackie Sheehan

Assoc. Prof. Contemporary Chinese Studies, U of Nottingham

‘The Future of China’s One Child Policy’

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March 20th

Chris Doyle

Director, Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding

‘Palestine & Israel’

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March 27th

Baroness Shirley Williams

House of Lords

To be advised

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