The Owen Powell Memorial Lecture "Britain in the World"

Lord Peter Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary University of London

Before joining the Queen Mary School of History in 1992, Peter was a journalist for 20 years with spells on as a leader writer and Whitehall correspondent, for the Financial Times as its lobby correspondent at Westminster, and as a columnist on The Independent.

Understanding the hidden wiring of the constitution and the power of the machinery of government in Britain remained at the heart of his research and teaching at Queen Mary when he moved from journalism to academia in 1992. He co- founded the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1986; and later the Mile End Group, a postgraduate research hub and forum at Queen Mary. He won the Times Higher Education Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.

His books include Never Again: Britain 1945-51, The Secret State, The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution, Cabinet and Whitehall, and Distilling the Frenzy: Writing the History of One's Own Times. He won the Orwell Prize for political writing in 2007 for Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties.

He was appointed to the House of Lords in November 2010, sitting as a non-political crossbench peer. "Economic Inequality and Our Grandchildren’s Future"

Professor Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford

Danny Dorling joined the School of Geography and the Environment in September 2013 and was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand.

With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty. Co-authored texts include The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live and Bankrupt Britain: An Atlas of Social Change.

His recent books are, Inequality and the 1%; Injustice: Why Social Inequalities Persist; So You Think You Know About Britain; Fair Play; The Visualization of Social Spatial Structure; The Population of the UK; Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times; The 32 Stops; Population Ten Billion; All That is Solid.

He is Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers and a patron of Roadpeace, the national charity for road crash victims. "Small Countries, Big Issues: The Caribbean in the 21st Century"

Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas CMG, OBE, Hon. Prof. Univ of London, Associate Fellow Chatham House

Victor Bulmer-Thomas is an associate fellow in the Americas programme, honorary professor at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, and an emeritus professor of economics at London University.

From 2001 to 2006 he was the director of Chatham House and from 1992 to 1998 he was the director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at London University. He edited the Journal of Latin American Studies from 1986 to 1997 and has authored or edited more than 20 books on Latin America and the Caribbean including, The Economic History of Latin America since Independence (Third Edition, 2014) and The Economic History of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars (2012).

He is a non-executive director of the New India Investment Trust and the JP Morgan Brazil Investment Trust. He has received honours from the governments of Brazil, Colombia and the United Kingdom.

"Talking to Terrorists"

Jonathan Powell, CEO/Founder, Inter Mediate, diplomat and negotiator, former Chief of Staff (Blair government)

Jonathan was a British diplomat from 1979 to 1996 working on the negotiations to return Hong Kong to China in the early 1980s, the CSCE human rights talks, CDE arms control talks with the in the mid 1980s, and the ‘Two plus Four’’ talks on German reunification in the late 1980s.

Jonathan was Chief of Staff to from 1995 to 2007 and the chief British government negotiator on Northern Ireland from 1997-2007.

Since leaving government Jonathan has written, Great Hatred Little Room: Negotiating Peace in Northern Ireland, The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World and Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts. "International Longevity in the 21st Century"

Baroness Sally Greengross OBE, President/Chief Executive ILC-UK

Baroness Sally Greengross has been a crossbench (independent) member of the House of Lords since 2000 and co-chairs five All-Party Parliamentary Groups: Dementia, Corporate Social Responsibility, Intergenerational Futures, Continence Care and Ageing and Older People.

She is the Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Choice at the End of Life, and is Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Equalities. Sally is Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre – UK; Co-President of the ILC Global Alliance; and was a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2006-12.

Baroness Greengross was Director General of Age Concern England from 1987 until 2000. Until 2000, she was joint Chair of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at Kings College London, and Secretary General of Eurolink Age. Baroness Greengross is Chair of the Advisory Groups for the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) and the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA).

She is President of the Pensions Policy Institute and Honorary Vice President of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. Baroness Greengross is Patron of the National Association of Care Caterers (NACC) and Patron of Care & Repair England. She holds honorary doctorates from eight UK universities. "On Liberty"

Shami Chakrabati, Director, Liberty

Shami Chakrabarti has been Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) since September 2003.

She was called to the Bar in 1994 and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996 until 2001 for Governments of both persuasions, before joining Liberty as In-House Counsel. She became heavily involved in its engagement with the 'War on Terror' and with the defence and promotion of human rights values in Parliament, the Courts and wider society.

Since becoming Liberty’s Director she has written, spoken and broadcast widely on the importance of the post-WW2 human rights framework as an essential component of democratic society.

She is Chancellor of Essex University, a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple, and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Manchester. In 2011, Shami was invited to be one of six independent assessors advising Lord Justice Leveson in his Public Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the UK Press. She was also chosen as one of eight Olympic Flag carriers at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.

Shami's first book, On Liberty, was published in 2014.

"That Spatchcocked Federation? The Political Economy of the EU and the UK’s Membership of it"

Bill Emmott, Former Editor, The Economist, and executive producer, "The Great European Disaster Movie"

Bill Emmott is an independent writer and consultant on international affairs, based in London and Somerset. After studying politics, philosophy and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford. In1980 he joined The Economist, the world's leading weekly magazine on current affairs and business, in Brussels and rose to become Editor from 1993 until 2006. When he left in March 2006, The Economist's circulation was almost 1.1m worldwide, having more than doubled in the previous 13 years.

Now, he is involved with books, documentary films and the work of The Wake Up Foundation, a charity dedicated to education and communication about the decline of western societies which he co-founded in 2013 with an Italian film-maker, Annalisa Piras. Their latest film, "The Great European Disaster Movie", aired on BBC4 on March 1st and Arte on April 21st, and is now the centrepiece of an educational roadshow around Europe.

Bill writes regular columns on international affairs for La Stampa in Italy and has written frequently for The Times and Financial Times in Britain. He has won journalism awards in Italy and Britain and "lifetime achievement" awards from the Work Foundation and the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. "The New Confrontation with Russia: Is the EU the Continuation of Germany by Other Means?"

Peter Hitchens, Journalist, author, and broadcaster Mail on Sunday

Born in Malta, educated at the University of York, is an English journalist and author. He has published six books, including , (How British Politics Lost its Way) (reissued as The Cameron Delusion in March 2010), , and The War We Never Fought.

Hitchens writes for Britain's The Mail on Sunday newspaper and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. His recent e-book, ‘Short Breaks in Mordor’, is a compilation of the reports from abroad that won him the Orwell prize for political writing in 2010.

Hitchens describes himself as a Burkean conservative, and he is a frequent critic of political correctness. "The Extreme Centre"

Tariq Ali, Writer, journalist and film maker

Tariq Ali has been a leading figure of the international left since the 60s and is a writer, journalist and film-maker. Born in Lahore in 1943, he was educated at Oxford University, where he became involved in student politics, in particular with the movement against the war in Vietnam. On graduating he led the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.

He owned his own independent television production company, Bandung, which produced programmes for Channel 4 in the UK during the 1980s. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes articles and journalism to magazines and newspapers. He has been writing for since the 70s, is editor of the New Left Review and is a political commentator published on every continent.

He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, the latest being The Extreme Centre.

"Has Democracy Harmed Indonesia's Civil Islam? "

Dr Michael Buehler, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Centre of South East Asian Studies, SOAS, London

Dr Buehler specializes in Southeast Asian politics, his teaching and research interests evolve around state-society relations under conditions of democratization and decentralization. Previously he taught at Columbia University and Northern Illinois University. He has also held research fellowships at the Center for Equality Development and Globalization Studies at Northwestern University in Chicago, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute in New York City, and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden. Michael Buehler has been an Associate Research Fellow at the Asia Society in New York City since 2011. "The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future"

The Rt Hon David Willetts, Former Minister for Universities and Science, Visiting Prof. King’s College London

David Willetts was a schoolboy living in Birmingham in the 1970s when he first became aware of politics. By university he was an economics junkie and an avid free marketeer. After sitting the civil service exams he found himself at the age of 22 working at Her Majesty’s Treasury, under Denis Healey, the Labour chancellor, and then the Conservative Nigel Lawson, Then in 1984 he was seconded from the Treasury to work at No 10 and worked there for . The experience led him to quit the civil service and enter politics.

David served as the Member of Parliament for Havant from 1992 to March 2015 and served as Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government. He has also previously served as the Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities & Skills, Shadow Secretary of State for Work & Pensions and for Trade & Industry.

He is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation, a member of the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a member of the Global Ageing Commission and a Visiting Professor at King's College, London. "UNESCO - Educating the World"

Kevin Watkins, Executive Director, ODI

Kevin joined the ODI as Executive Director in June 2013. His research focuses on education, globalization and human development.

He is a former non-resident senior fellow with the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, and was previously director and lead author of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report after serving for three years as the director of the UNDP Human Development Report, where he led the research on reports covering the Millennium Development Goals, water and climate change.

Prior to working with the United Nations, he worked for thirteen years with Oxfam, where he authored major reports on African debt, international trade and Oxfam’s Education Report. He has written extensively on a wide range of development issues for the international media.

In addition to his work at Brookings, Watkins is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow with the Global Economic Governance program at University College, Oxford University. He holds a BA in Politics and Social Science from Durham University and a doctorate from Oxford University.

"In a Global Economy, Can Co-operative and Mutual Businesses Ever Win Out?"

Ed Mayo, Secretary-General, Co-operatives UK

Ed Mayo is Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, the membership network for co-operative businesses. He is a long-term co-operator and has a track record of innovation and impact in his work to bring together economic life and social justice.

After a short period as a management consultant at Andersen Consulting, Mayo joined the World Development Movement, serving as acting Director until 1992.

Mayo rose to prominence as director of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) from 1992 to 2003. He led NEF from two to fifty staff, creating the leading 'think-and-do tank', looking at ethical market activity, local economies and public service reform.

In 2003, he left to become chief executive of the National Consumer Council, staying with the organisation for 5 years. In 2008, the National Consumer Council merged with energywatch and Postwatch to form Consumer Focus, a move which Mayo oversaw as he became chief executive of the new organisation. In 2009, he resigned to take up the position of Secretary General of Co-operatives UK following the retirement of its Chief Executive Dame Pauline Green. “The Challenges of Global Food Security”

Professor Richard Tiffin, Director, Centre for Food Security, University of Reading

Professor Richard Tiffin is the Director of the Centre for Food Security which capitalises on Reading’s reputation in the agri- food sector by fostering collaborations on the food security agenda.

Professor Tiffin’s read Agriculture at the University of Newcastle and completed a PhD in Agricultural Economics the University of London. He lectured in Agricultural Economics at Newcastle and at Durham’s Department of Economics, before joining the University of Reading in 2000 where he was appointed Professor of Applied Economics in 2006.

Richard’s current research is focused on diet and health policy. His work has examined the impacts of alternative food policies on land use in the UK and the impacts of a fat tax on health in the UK. He acts as deputy co-ordinator of the FAACE- JPI MACSUR project that models of climate change impacts on European agriculture. He has published widely, his research findings are frequently reported in the international press, and he appears as an expert commentator on national TV and radio. He sits on a number of advisory panels and research committees, including the BBSRC Strategy Advisory Panel and the FSA Social Science Research Committee. "Developing Our Cities: International Lessons"

Professor Michael Parkinson, University of Liverpool

Michael was until recently Director of the European Institute for Urban Affairs at Liverpool John Moores University. He has acted as adviser on urban affairs to the European Commission, OECD, the Department of Communities and Local Government, the National Audit Office, and a range of cities in the UK.

He recently acted as Specialist Adviser to the HoC CLG Select Committee Inquiry into Regeneration. He has generated over £8m in research funds to assess the development of cities, urban policy and regeneration in the UK and Europe. He lectures extensively nationally and internationally. He is a regular contributor to the media. He was made Commander of the British Empire for services to urban regeneration in 2007.

He led the EC project on ‘Second Tier Cities in Europe: In An Age of Austerity Why Invest Beyond the Capitals?’ He completed in 2010 a major study of the impact of the recession’ ‘The Credit Crunch and Regeneration: Impact and Implications.’ He was also Director of the ESRC’s Programme on CITIES: Cohesion and Competitiveness, a major five-year research programme involving 25 Universities.

"Global Energy Dilemmas"

Professor Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School

Prof. Bradshaw's academic background is in human geography. He works at the interface between economic and political geography, energy studies and international relations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (and past Vice President) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Prof. Bradshaw's research has focused on the geopolitical economy of global energy. For almost 20 years he has studied the development of the Sakhalin oil and gas projects in Russia's Far East. This has led to research on energy security in northeast Asia.

From 2008 to 2011 he was engaged in a programme of research examining the relationship between energy security, globalization and climate change, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. In October 2013 Polity Press published his book entitled Global Energy Dilemmas.

He plans to continue his research on the global geopolitical economy of the gas industry and is now working on the prospects for the development of shale gas in the UK and Europe. He also plans to continue research on North American fossil fuel abundance and the global geopolitics of fossil fuels. "Britain's Place in the World"

Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Former UK Ambassador to the EU and to the United States

Sir Nigel Sheinwald is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies at Kings College, London. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in 2012 after over 4 years as British Ambassador to the United States.

Nigel graduated with a First in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. His first posting was Moscow in 1978-9. He was Head of the FCO’s Anglo-Soviet Section in the early 1980s and also served as FCO Press Secretary in the 1990s. Nigel was British Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from 2000 to 2003. This followed a series of EU-related jobs in London and Brussels.

From 2003-7 he served as the Prime Minister’s Foreign Policy and Defence Adviser and Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat of the Cabinet Office.

He serves as a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation and on the Advisory Board of the Centre for European Reform. "Better Out Than In!"

Daniel Hannan, Conservative Party MEP, South East England, journalist, author and broadcaster

Daniel Hannan is a British politician, journalist, and author who is a Conservative MEP for the South East of England, and is Secretary-General of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists.

After stints as a speech-writer for Michael Howard and William Hague, Daniel was elected to the European Parliament at the 1999 election. He led the campaign to withdraw the Conservative Party from the EPP–ED, joining the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) with his Conservative colleagues when it was formed in 2009. He currently serves on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Daniel Hannan advocates localism, and he has written several books arguing for democratic reform. He is a Eurosceptic and is strongly critical of European integration. Alongside his political activities, he is a journalist as a leader writer and through his blog for . Born in Peru, Hannan speaks Spanish and French fluently. He occasionally delivers speeches to the European Parliament in Spanish.

"The Economics of China"

Professor Linda Yueh, Chief Business Correspondent BBC, Fellow in Economics, Oxford University

Linda Yueh is Chief Business Correspondent for the BBC and presenter of Talking Business with Linda Yueh.

Dr.Yueh is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, Adjunct Professor of Economics at the London Business School, and Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. She directs the China Growth Centre (CGC) at St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, serves on the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and is an associate of the IDEAS: International Affairs, Diplomacy & Strategy research centre, both at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Previously, she was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison resident in New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Economics Editor at Bloomberg TV in London, where she hosted "Economic Edge".

She has a BA from Yale University, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, a JD from New York University School of Law and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University. "Should Europeans Elect Their President?"

Sir Julian Priestley, Former Sec-General to the European Parliament Nereo Peñalver, Foreign Policy Adviser at European Parliament

Sir Julian Priestley was Secretary General of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2007. Previously he had been chef de cabinet to Klaus Hänsch, President of Parliament. Before that he held several senior posts in the European Parliament, including Secretary General of the Socialist Group.

A graduate of Balliol, Oxford, he is a past President of the Oxford Union, and a former parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party.

Since retiring he continues to speak and write about European issues. His book, 'Six Battles that Shaped Europe's Parliament' was published by John Harper in 2008.

A second book, ‘Europe’s Parliament; People, Places, Politics’ was published in 2012. He is chairman of EPPA; a Brussels based public affairs company. In 2007 he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen. He is on the committee of Pro Europa, campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU. He is a member of the board of Votewatch.eu.

Nereo Peñalver Garcia is a European Union official, currently working at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Previously he served as adviser to European politicians such as Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, and Josep Borrell, former President of the European Parliament. He also worked for senior EU officials including the Director General for External Policies at the European Parliament and the spokesperson of Javier Solana, High Representative for the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), as well as for the Director of the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe, and at the EU delegation in Tunisia.

He holds Masters from the College of Europe in Bruges and from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

"Africa's New Authoritarians"

Professor David Anderson, Professor of African History, University of Warwick

David Anderson is Professor of African History at Warwick. He first visited Keele World Affairs when he held a similar post at Oxford.

He first studied History at the University of Sussex, leading to doctoral studies and a Research Fellowship at Cambridge, then Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, and later Director of the Centre for African Studies in the University of London (1997–2001).

His research interests have remained focused upon eastern and central Africa, but his published work has ranged across a wide variety of topics, from histories of environmental change to current analysis of political violence.

His involvement in the High Court case brought against the British government by four Mau Mau veterans has resulted in the publication of important articles in 2012, focusing on the subject of torture and abuse under British rule in Kenya. He is engaged in a many other studies within the region.

David is founder of the Journal of Eastern African Studies. "Heroes, Villains and Victims: The Economics and Politics of International Migration"

Professor Martin Ruhs, Associate Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford

Martin Ruhs is University Lecturer in Political Economy at the Department for Continuing Education, a Fellow of Kellogg College, and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) where he has directed the Migration Observatory since Jan 2010. Martin teaches at the Department for Continuing Education, the Blavatnik School of Government and at ISCA/ODID.

His research focuses on the economics and politics of international labour migration, with a strong international comparative dimension.

In addition to his academic work and teaching, Martin has provided policy analysis and advice for various national governments and international institutions. In 2008-09 he was Specialist Advisor to an inquiry by the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords into the economic impacts of immigration.

During 2007-14, Martin was a member of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), an independent body of five academic economists tasked to advise the UK government on labour immigration policy. He is a regular commentator on migration issues in the media. "Climate Disruption"

Dr Emily Schuckburgh, Head of Open Oceans, British Antarctic Survey

Dr Emily Shuckburgh is a climate scientist and leads the Open Oceans research group at the British Antarctic Survey, which is focused on understanding the role of the polar oceans in the global climate system.

She is also a fellow of Darwin College, a member of the Faculty of Mathematics, an associate of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, an associate fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy, a member of the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment and a senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

In the past she has worked at Ecole Normal Supérieure in Paris and at MIT. She is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and Chair of their Climate Science Communications Group, a trustee of the Campaign for Science and Engineering and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. She is a member of the Natural Environment Research Council's Strategic Programme Advisory Group and has acted as a scientific advisor to the UK Government.