Speakers
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Festival of the Future City
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Bristol 650
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Geoff Mulgan
He works with national governments, global organisations, NGOs, foundations and businesses. Recently, he’s been developing ideas on shared intelligence, wisdom, science policy, social science and systems, AI governance and evidence, with a sideline on imagination and the arts.
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Henri Murison
Having spent over five years as a Cabinet member at Newcastle City Council, where he held the Quality of Life remit, Henri has held the position of Research Director at the Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire and, most recently, leading on Public Affairs at the Yorkshire Building Society, where he […]
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Ruth Myers
From 2004 until 2015, Ruth lectured in English at City of Bristol College, delivering GCSE and A level English and previously taught adults on the Access to Higher Education. Ruth enjoys building on her teaching experience to work with local communities, shaping projects and developing new concepts that inevitably emerge through each collaboration. Since 2016, […]
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Vlad Mykhnenko
Over the past twenty years, he has published extensively on Ukraine’s coal and steel industries, on the political economy of post-communism: the Ukrainian Donbas and Polish Upper Silesia in transition, on east European cities, and on the causes and consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine, including the hidden tragedy of internal displacement, following the […]
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Festival of Economics
Eshe Nelson
Before joining The New York Times, she was a global economics and markets reporter for Quartz and a currency and bond markets reporter for Bloomberg News. In 2020, she completed the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University.
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Sian Norris
Her book Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global is an exposé of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics and their connections to the American far right. Sian’s work has been published by openDemocracy 50:50, the Guardian, the i, New Statesman, Byline Times, politics.co.uk and many more. Follow […]
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Festival of Economics
Sarah O'Connor
She writes a weekly column focused mostly on the world of work, as well as longer features. She studied social and political sciences at Cambridge University and joined the FT in 2007. Over the course of her career, she has covered the US economy from Washington DC, the UK economy from London and the financial […]
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Festival of Economics
Ore Ogunbiyi
Prior to The Economist, she wrote speeches for the Vice President of Nigeria, and was the youngest political appointee in the country’s history. While studying for her MS in Journalism at Columbia University, New York, she co-authored a book called Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change. She holds a BA in Human, […]
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Bristol Ideas
David Olusoga
David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and a columnist for The Observer. He also writes for the Guardian, New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine. He presents the long-running BBC history series A House Through Time and wrote and presented the award-winning series Black and […]
