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World Affairs Programme 2013-2014

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October 3^rd	Professor Rana Mitter	Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China University of Oxford	‘China: Where Next?’
October 10^th	Prof Andrew Balmford FRS	Professor of Conservation Science University of Cambridge	‘Nature’s Glass: Half-full or Half-empty’
October 17^th	Stephen O’Brien MP	Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Sahel	‘Beating Malaria’
October 24^th	Professor Lord Winston	Prof of Science and Society, Imperial College London	The Threat Of Mankind's Best Ideas
October 31^st	Ben Dyson	Director Positive Money	Positive Money: How We Should Change the UK Banking System’
November 7^th	Lord Maurice Glasman	House of Lords Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, London Metropolitan University	'Workers of the World: Blue Labour's Foreign Policy'
November 14^th	Professor Nicola Phillips	Prof in Political Economy University of Sheffield	‘Human Trafficking in a Global Economy’
November 21^st	Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles	Former UK Ambassador to Israel, Saudi, Afghanistan	‘Folly in Foreign Policy: an Afghan Case Study’
November 28^th	Dr Tristram Hunt MP	Member Slct Comm Political and Constitutional Reform Shadow Education Spokesman	‘Cities of Empire: British Colonialism and its Urban Legacy’
December 5^th	Dr Ghada Karmi	Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies University of Exeter	A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
December 12^th	Richard Dowden	Executive Director, Royal African Society	‘Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles’
December 19^th	David Marsh CBE	Chairman OMFIF & SCCO International, Hon Prof University of Birmingham	‘The Curse of the Euro’
2014
January 9^th 2014	Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE	Professor of Pharmacology University of Oxford	‘The Brain of The Future’
January 16^th	Werner Sabiers	German Embassy	'All Change In German Politics?'
January 23^rd	Owen Tudor	Head of European Union and International Relations, TUC	‘Getting the world to work: a 21st century role for trade unions’
January 30^th	Frances Cook OBE	Chief Executive, Howard League for Penal Reform	‘A Brighter Future For Justice’
February 6^th	Prof Beverley Milton-Edwards	Prof of Politics Queens University Belfast	‘Hamas in the wake of the Arab Awakening’
February 13^th	Peter Riddell CBE	Director, Institute for Government; former editor & journalist: FT and The Times	‘Better Government: How To Transform Whitehall’
February 20^th	Lynne Berry OBE	Visiting Professor CASS, Former CEO of WRVS & Charity Commission	‘Whose Voluntary Sector Is It Anyway?’
February 27^th	Prof Jenny Pearce	Prof of Latin American Politics, University of Bradford	‘Why is Latin America one of the most violent regions of the world?’
March 6^th	Dr Liz Davies	Reader in Child Protection: London Metropolitan University	‘The Politics Of Child Protection’
March 13^th	Prof Jackie Sheehan	Assoc. Prof. Contemporary Chinese Studies, U of Nottingham	‘The Future of China’s One Child Policy’
March 20^th	Chris Doyle	Director, Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding	‘Palestine & Israel’
March 27^th	Baroness Shirley Williams	House of Lords	To be advised