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June

Risk, security and democracy: A public conversation

7th June 2023: 4:30pm   Registration Required
Online & Oxford Martin School

Criss-crossing the disparate realms of healthcare and global finance, war and national security, climate and personal safety, the language and logic of risk have become pervasive in the twenty-first century.

Panel discussion: 'Kleptocracy and The Financial Action Task Force' with Oliver Bullough, Susan Hawley, Margaret Hodge, Jason Sharman & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

5th June 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

The international standards regarding money laundering and terrorist financing are set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which describes itself as a ‘global watchdog’ whose recommendations ‘aim to prevent these illegal activities and the harm they cause to society’.

May

Baroness Jo Valentine, Jason Stockwood & Paul Collier in conversation: 'Grimsby and Blackpool- how community power is helping them with levelling up'

24th May 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

We know that flourishing communities and good work sits at the heart of good lives and wealthy societies. At the start of the digital revolution, in the 1970s, there was an expectation that people and places could transition to a new economy. Today we are reaping the grim rewards in terms of social deprivation and unbalanced economies. Levelling Up is an acknowledgement that transitions must be managed.

Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion

'The Cattle-Grain-Beef Complex: Maize, feedlots, and British breeds in the rise of the modern food system' with Dr Nathan Sayre

18th May 2023: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

Intensive, industrial beef production in the US relies on confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and high-throughput slaughter and packing plants to produce reliable supplies at low prices.

'Technology and the future of work' with Jacky Wright

17th May 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Online & Oxford Martin School

Former Chief Digital Officer of Microsoft and secondee to the UK government (now Chief Technology and Platform Officer at McKinsey & Co), Jacky Wright draws on experience of digital transformations and the impact of AI on organisations, to talk about how businesses, individuals and societies can adapt and thrive.

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February

'Inequalities: which ones matter, and what to do about them' with Prof Paul Johnson

27th February 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

Paul Johnson, Director of The Institute for Fiscal Studies, will draw on the extensive work of the IFS-Deaton review of inequalities to look at how inequalities in earnings, incomes, wealth, and education have changed over time, as well as at inequalities between different sexes, ethnic minorities and age groups.

'Preventing pandemics at the source – stopping spillover' with Prof Peter Hudson

15th February 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

While many of those working on emerging diseases expected a pandemic like COVID, and in many ways this one could have been much worse, there is now increased concern about how to prevent the next one.