Ambassador Dr Peter Ammon

The Return of Geopolitics: managing risk in the 21st century

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A staunch advocate of free trade, Ammon takes strong interest in what it takes to build a rules-based, peaceful and prosperous global order. In London, Ammon's agenda is focused on minimising economic and political risk after the BREXIT referendum.

Dr Lee Elliot Major

Stuck: Britain’s Social Mobility Problem

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Chief Executive of The Sutton Trust, Trustee of The Education Endowment Foundation. Low social mobility, particularly at the bottom and top of society, and widening educational inequality are arguably the biggest social challenges of our times.

Professor Lorraine Daston

The Sciences of the Archives: Big Science, Big
Humanities, and the Pathos of Positivism

Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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Oliver Hart

Incomplete Contracts and Control

Oliver is the Andrew E Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. This lecture was a version of his Nobel Prize Lecture, originally delivered on 8 December 2016 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. A recording of the lecture will be available shortly.

Reza Moghadam

Lessons from the Euro Crisis

Reza Modhadam is Vice Chairman, Global Capital Markets & Head of Sovereign Debt Coverage at Morgan Stanley. He joined the Firm in 2014 from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he served for 22 years.

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Sir Nigel Thrift

The University of Life

Professor Nigel Thrift was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick from 2006 until January 2016.

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Andrew Blake

Machines that learn: big data or explanatory models?

Andrew Blake took up his current post as Institute Director of The Alan Turing Institute in October 2015. He was previously a Microsoft Distinguished Scientist and the Laboratory Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

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Sir David King

Sustainable Futures: Survival of the City

Professor Sir David King is the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change. He previously worked as the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, working with Prime Ministers Blair and Brown, during which time he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on climate change

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Mark Lowcock

International Development and Economic Growth in a Changing World

Mark Lowcock is Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Development. He began his career in DFID (formally the Overseas Development Administration) in 1985.

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Norman R Augustine

Research and Education in Developed Countries and the Dinosaur: They Never Saw it Coming

Norman R Augustine attended Princeton University where he graduated with a BSE and MSE in Aeronautical Engineering. He has served as Under Secretary of the Army and later Acting Secretary of the Army and as CEO of Lockheed Martin.
 
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Jon Cruddas

Labour Value - Trade Unions and the Politics of the Common Good

Jon Cruddas became a policy officer with the Labour Party in 1989 before becoming the chief assistant to the General Secretary of the Labour Party in 1994. He is now head of Labour's policy review and is a member of the Shadow Cabinet.

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Dame Helen Ghosh

For ever, for everyone. Reinventing the National Trust in the 21st Century

Dame Helen Ghosh spent seven years in central government before becoming Director-General of the National Trust in 2012, where her interest in history, people and places, and her commitment to the environment come together.

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Sir Vernon Ellis

Beyond Public vs Private: Creating Entrepreneurial Public Value

Sir Vernon Ellis is Chair of the British Council, where he has led the Board and management through an extensive reframing of the strategy and organisation structure.

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Sir Michael Barber

Getting every child into school and learning; why wait?

Sir Michael Barber is a leading authority on education systems and education reform. He is Chief Education Advisor at Pearson, leading the company's worldwide programme of research into education policy and efficacy.Watch Sir Michael Barber's lecture

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Richard K Miller

From the Ground Up: Rethinking Engineering Education

Richard K Miller was appointed President and first employee of Olin College of Engineering in 1999. Prior to this he served as Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa.

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Professor Sir Malcolm Grant

Developing the potential of the NHS as a global leader in research and innovation

Professor Sir Malcolm Grant is Chair of NHS England, providing strategic leadership and ensuring proper governance for the board.

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Mona Siddiqui

Faith in public life - hope or hindrance?

Mona Siddiqui joined the University of Edinburgh’s Divinity school in December 2011 as the first Muslim chair in Islamic and Interreligious Studies. Prior to this she was Professor of Islamic Studies at Glasgow University for 15 years.

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Nick Pearce

Politics as vocation in a post democratic age?

Nick Pearce is Director of IPPR. He rejoined the institute in September 2010 after two years as Head of the Policy Unit at No 10.

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Professor Richard Ellis

Let There Be Light: Finding the Earliest Galaxies

Richard Ellis is the Steele Professor of Astronomy
at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
in Pasadena.

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Roly Keating

The idea of the library in a connected age

Roly Keating took up the post of Chief Executive at the British Library in September 2012.

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Dr Oliver Sacks

Narrative and Medicine: The Importance of the Case History

Oliver Sacks was a professor of neurology at NYU School of Medicine and a Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick.

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Professor David Harvey

The Contradictions of Capital

David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of
Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York.

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Professor Ian Goldin

Mind the Gap: Politics, Economics and Technological Change

Professor Ian Goldin is the first Director of the Oxford Martin School. He was Vice President of the World Bank from 2003-2006.

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Dr Steven Koonin

The Promise of Urban Science

Dr Steven Koonin is Director of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress.

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Dr Tachi Yamada

Lessons from Global Health

Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada is MD, Chief Medical & Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President & Board Member - Takeda Pharmaceuticals .

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Professor Sir Ghillean Prance

Towards Global Sustainability: a Faith perspective

Ghillean Tolmie Prance is Scientific Director of the Eden Project in Cornwall and Visiting Professor at Reading University (1988-).

Mario Vargas Llosa

In Conversation

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world’s greatest contemporary novelists, a playwright of distinction and a leading public intellectual. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.

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Sir Paul Nurse

The Great Ideas of Biology

Sir Paul Nurse is a geneticist and cell biologist who has worked on how the eukaryotic cell cycle is controlled and how cell shape and cell dimensions are determined.

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Marina Warner

The Tales Things Tell: Charmed Goods in the World of the Arabian Nights

Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history.

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Dame Julia Cleverdon

Companies and communities in tough times

Listed by The Times as one of the 50 most influential women in Britain, Dame Julia Cleverdon, DCVO, CBE is a renowned speaker on corporate responsibility, leadership and career development for women.

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Peter Forbes

Science Morphing into Art

Peter Forbes is a writer who has consistently worked at the interface between art and science. His book Dazzled and Deceived won the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing.

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Neil MacGregor

Objects of Concern

Neil MacGregor has been Director of the British Museum since August 2002. In 2009 he received an honorary DLitt from the University of Warwick.

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James Smith

Stepping Up To The Energy Challenge

James Smith was appointed Chairman of Shell UK in 2004. He is President of the Energy Institute and chairs the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership.

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Lord Robert Skidelsky

The Economics Of The Good Life

Lord Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick.

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