Speakers
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Sophie Howe
Prior to this role, Sophie was the first Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales and the only woman in a police commissioner leadership role in Wales. Sophie served as a Government Special Adviser from 2009-2013 providing policy and political advice on communities, local government, community safety, housing, regeneration and equality to the Cabinet […]
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Bristol 650
Luke Jerram
Living in the Bristol since 1997, but working both nationally and internationally Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the world. In 2022 alone he had 104 exhibitions in 25 different countries, visited by more than 2 million people. In Bristol he is known for the […]
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Festival of Economics
Patrick Jeurissen
Jeurissen is an expert on the design and implementation of policies that specifically address issues of sustainability and affordability of health care systems. He has co-authored some one-hundred scientific publications, and was a co-editor of two books on the subject; and he is also a sought as a speaker on international forums. Jeurissen represents the […]
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Sado Jirde
Jirde is active on several relevant boards and advisory structures including Bristol’s One City Economy board and Bristol University Court. She is also the Vice-Chair of Bristol Old Vic Board – the oldest continuously working theatre in the English-speaking world. She was awarded The African Achievers Award in 2015, as well as the Most Inspirational […]
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Indy Johar
Johar is a non-executive director of WikiHouse Foundation & Bloxhub. Johar was a Good Growth Commissioner for the RSA, RIBA Trustee and Advisor to Mayor of London on Good Growth, The Liverpool City Region Land Commissioner, The State of New Jersey – The Future of Work Task Force – among others. Most recently he founded Dark […]
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Festival of the Future City
Stephen Jones
He has worked across a number of government departments, including seven years in the Cabinet Office and No10, and has worked on a range of economic and domestic policy agendas.
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Stephen Jones
He joined Core Cities UK after 19 years in the civil service, most recently as the Director of the Cities and Local Growth Unit, jointly working between the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. He has worked across a number of government departments, including seven […]
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Festival of the Future City
David Jubb
Its purpose is to co-design ways for citizens to lead decision-making and shape the future. Its first project is to work with Trinity Arts, St Pauls Carnival and the West of England Combined Authority to enable a representative group of the west of England’s 1.2million citizens to shape a cultural plan for the region. Since […]
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Festival of the Future City
Ben Judah
As a journalist, Ben Judah has written for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, The American Interest, the Evening Standard and the Financial Times. He is the author of Fragile Empire, a study of Putin’s Russia, which was published by Yale University Press in 2013. His second book, This is London, […]
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Lindsay Judge
Prior to joining the Resolution Foundation Lindsay worked for Child Poverty Action Group, the World Bank and Oxfam, developing policies to assist those on low incomes in the UK, transition and developing country economies.
