Speakers
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Poku Osei
Babbasa is now a Queen’s Award Winning enterprise, which has supported over 2,200 young people to date. It has 13 paid staff, 124 active mentors and 167 partner agencies, and provides young people often disadvantaged by their race, education or social status with access to career-oriented employment, education, and training opportunities in Bristol. Osei has […]
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Festival of Economics
Henry Overman
His current research interests include the causes and consequences of spatial disparities and the impact of urban and regional policy. His research has been published in leading economics journals (The American Economic Review, The Review of Economics Studies and The Quarterly Journal of Economics) and leading economic geography journals (Environment and Planning and Journal of […]
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Festival of the Future City
Lara Oyedele
She was a Non-Executive Director of Southern Housing Group, is currently a senior Olmec Black on Board associate, is on the board of Housing 21 and Chair of Bradford homelessness charity, Hope Housing. Oyedele is an alumni of Loughborough University, the LSE and Henley Management College. She is a passionate campaigner for diversity at executive […]
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Festival of the Future City
Mya Parker
‘The Youth Climate Strikes have evidenced that my feelings are representative of the Young People of Bristol, and the sooner we act, the better,’ says Mya Parker. ‘I am also very concerned with equality, and I would love to have the opportunity to make Bristol a fairer city for young people from marginalised groups such […]
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Colin Ward
Martin Parker
His recent books are Shut Down the Business School (Pluto, 2018), Anarchism, Organization and Management (Routledge, 2020) and Life After COVID19 (Bristol University Press, 2020).
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Caleb Parkin
He tutors for Arvon, Poetry Society, Poetry School and elsewhere. He holds an MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and is a practice-as-research PhD candidate at University of Exeter.
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James Baldwin 2024
Jack Parlett
His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Boston Review, Granta, Literary Hub, BBC Culture, Poetry London and elsewhere.
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Stephen Peacock
A former equity partner at Grant Thornton UK LLP, Stephen has extensive experience of economic development, scale-up businesses, major regeneration projects, technology and the energy sector. His early career included a decade in the international energy industry following which he was a founding director of 3 Mobile.
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Festival of Economics
Claire Pearce
Formerly a Chief Planner, she has led the Hinkley Point C project for during the planning, negotiation and implementation process and will be advising on the Sizewell C project. Pearce is recognised as an RTPI Woman of Influence and a member of Women in Property. A champion of apprenticeships in town planning, a mentor for […]
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Nick Pearce
Before joining the University, Nick was the Director of Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), and between 2008 and 2010, Head of the No10 Downing St. Policy Unit. He is the author of Shadows of Empire: The Anglosphere in British Politics (with Michael Kenny) and Britain Beyond Brexit (with Gavin Kelly).
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Festival of Economics
Huw Pill
Previously, Huw was Chief European Economist at Goldman Sachs (2011-18). Before that, he worked at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. He served as its Deputy Director of Research (2009-11) and Head of its Monetary Policy Stance Division (2004-09), and he worked in its Strategic Policy Issues Unit (1998-2001). Pill was also a member of […]
