Following on from the hugely successful event last year, Question Time will be hosted once again by the Departments of Economics and PAIS, and promises to be an exciting and engaging evening which will focus on ‘Globalisation and Anti-globalisation’. Very similar in format to the popular BBC television show, this will be an excellent opportunity to engage with politicians, policy makers and academics on major issues and questions that concern the world.

 

The event will take place on Monday 2 October from 6.15-7.45pm in Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, one of the most prestigious venues on campus where BBC Question Time was once filmed.

• Professor Kate Williams, historian and broadcaster specialising in modern history, royal and constitutional affairs. She is also a Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading. Kate is also a bestselling author of six historical books including a biography of Josephine Bonaparte.
• Chris White, MP for Warwick and Leamington from 2010 to 2017.He was the author of the Social Value Act and a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee. Chris is the Vice-Chair of the think tank Policy Connect and patron of the International Development charity Cord, now based in Coventry.
• Katy Chakrabortty, Head of Advocacy at Oxfam GB. Katy leads the team focused on Oxfam's political influence in the UK, and its relationship with the UK government and parliament. Her background is in political campaigning and parliamentary advocacy, having previously worked for the Electoral Reform Society, Amnesty International, and DeHavilland.
• Samira Ahmed, award winning journalist and broadcaster, and a visiting professor of Journalism at Kingston University with a special focus on culture and its overlap with politics. She presents the weekly programme Newswatch on BBC One and is one of the main presenters of the BBC Radio 4 Arts programme Front Row.
• Dr Dennis Novy, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is also an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and was the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
• Dr Faiza Shaheen, economist, writer, activist and commentator. Prior to this, Faiza was Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at Save the Children UK, where she led on the development of a new global campaign on inequalities in child outcomes, and Senior Researcher on economic inequality at the New Economics Foundation (NEF).