Speakers
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Festival of the Future City
Manu Maunganidze
Maunganidze’s work has primarily been with non-profit and public sector organisations, green companies and charities, and cultural institutions. This has seen him advise and work in tandem with organisations as diverse as the National Trust, Voscur, City to Sea, The Crafts Council, Resource Futures, Future Economy Network, Bristol City Council and many smaller community organisations, […]
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Festival of Economics
Mariana Mazzucato
Mariana Mazzucato is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy’s highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Most recently, Pope […]
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Festival of the Future City
LaToyah McAllister-Jones
LaToyah McAllister-Jones is the Executive Director for Bristol’s renowned St Pauls Carnival. She is also an associate non-executive director at NHS North Bristol Trust. As St Pauls Carnival’s executive director, McAllister-Jones is dedicated to building the carnival’s legacy, transforming it from solely being a single day event into a continuous celebration throughout the year of […]
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Katie McClymont
She teaches on the MSc programme as well as on the undergraduate programmes within the department. In research, she is interested in planning theory, and its relationship with practice, values and community involvement in planning. Her current research interests focus on cemeteries in cities, Community-Led housing and Low-Impact development and whether policy can deal with […]
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Kerry McInerney
Kerry is an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, where she brings complex conversations about gender, race and artificial intelligence to wide audiences, and the co-host of the Good Robot podcast on feminism, gender and technology. She is a Research Fellow at AI Now and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL. […]
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Moses McKenzie
Moses McKenzie’s novel An Olive Grove in Ends is published in the UK under the Wildfire imprint of Headline Publishing. It was listed as one of the 10 best debut novels of 2022 in The Observer, and, in a US review, has been called ‘the most exciting UK debut in years’. Moses’s writing is strongly […]
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Festival of Economics
Michael McMahon
He previously worked at Warwick University and has also given courses at INSEAD, NYU, Chicago Booth, LBS and LSE. He has delivered capacity building courses throughout Asia with the IMF’s Singapore Training Institute. He worked at the Bank of England for many years. Since April 2019, he has served as a Council member of the […]
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Melissa Mean
Set up as a Community Interest Company and Community Land Trust, WeCanMake is part of arts and tech collective Knowle West Media Centre. WeCanMake designs and delivers innovative approaches to community-led housing, including unlocking micro-sites for affordable homes, and using localised digital design and fabrication technologies to help communities to capture more value from the […]
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Naomi Miller
She joined the Bristol Ideas team as Deputy Director in November 2018 and became Acting Director in May 2022. In 2021, Miller worked closely with Natasha Carthew to produce the first Working Class Writers Festival. Prior to her role at Bristol Ideas, she held fundraising and organisational development roles at Bristol Cathedral, the Sainsbury Centre […]
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Rob Mitchell
Co-founder of Firstborn Creatives with Shawn Sobers and former director Black Pyramid Film and Video Project, much of Mitchell’s work has looked at issues of representation, history and belonging.
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Festival of the Future City
Hashi Mohamed
He attended some of Britain’s worst schools and was raised exclusively on state benefits. Yet today he is a successful barrister, with an Oxford degree and a CV that includes numerous appearances on the BBC. In his book People Like Us, Hashi explores what his own experience can tell us about social mobility in Britain […]