Speakers
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Festival of Economics
Kojo Koram
Born in Accra, Ghana and raised on Merseyside, Kojo Karam is now based in London. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2011 and received his PhD in September 2017. In 2018, the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities awarded his PhD the prestigious Julien Mezey […]
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Madhu Krishnan
As well as working in academia, Madhu Krishnan is the author of Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (Boydell & Brewer, 2018) and Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is at present working on a large […]
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Festival of the Future City
Roman Krznaric
His latest book is the international bestseller The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World. His previous books, including Empathy: Why it Matters And How To Get It, The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live and Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day,, have been published […]
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Jenny Lacey
After being part of the BBC’s broadcasting network for many years, she retired as Managing Editor of BBC Bristol in 2006. She received the Variety Club Independent Radio Personality of the Year award for her work.
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Cleo Lake
Of African-Jamaican and Scottish roots, Cleo Lake is a community engagement professional, researcher, who has been involved within the arts and culture sector for over two decades. Lake is driven by the idea of utilising creativity, dance and expanded performance to aid civic engagement and to reframe storytelling as a resilience tool to embed cultural […]
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Charles Landry
Charles invented the Creative City concept in the late 1980s. His company Comedia was founded in 1978 comprising then of a group of people who developed projects concerned with city life, culture and creativity. This 35-year history resulted in over 500 projects across the globe and more than 200 publications, many of which are regarded […]
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Festival of Economics
Carol Lewis
She has worked at The Times for more than 15 years on business, finance and property. Previously she was the editor of a weekly medical newspaper. She specialises in property and personal finance and has written and edited extensively on business, small business, trade, public sector, science, and travel for national and specialist press. She […]
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Paul Lindley
His new book is Raising the Nation: How to Build a Better Future for Our Children (and Everyone Else) (Policy Press, November 2023), which makes a compelling case for prioritising child-centred policies to ensure the future strength of our communities, environment and economy.
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Festival of Economics
David Lingelbach
He was educated at MIT, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Exeter, from which he received a Ph.D. Prior to becoming an academic, David served in senior roles in finance and international development, including as CEO of Bank of America’s businesses in the former Soviet Union. He has been a Fulbright […]
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Nikki Linsell
Nikki has also held senior lecturer positions in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Nottingham and Brighton and was awarded an EPSRC fund to support her doctorate research on the ethics and economics of the architecture profession and its ‘humanitarian capitalism.’ Following this, she moved into consultancy, overseeing a major university restructure and, more […]
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