Speakers
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Festival of Economics
Lucy Denyer
Having earnt a PGDip in Magazine Journalism from Cardiff University, she now writes about parenting, family life, property and interiors.
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Festival of Economics
Swati Dhingra
She is an expert in the fields of international economics, trade policy and industrial organisation. Photo credit: Alicia Canter/The Observer
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Festival of the Future City
Alix Dietzel
She has written about the global scale, comparing the UNFCCC to non-state actors such as C40 cities and is currently working on understanding just transition at the city scale. She is a senior lecturer in Climate Justice at the University of Bristol. Her teaching focuses on applied political theory including theories of International Relations, Global […]
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Teresa Dillon
Since 2013, she has directed Urban Hosts and was led curator for HACK-THE-CITY (2012), Science Gallery, Dublin and co-curator for transmediale – festival for art, media and culture, Berlin (2016). Her work has been exhibited internationally (HWK Berlin; Kiasma, Helsinki; Aksioma, Ljubljana; LABoral, Spain, LUAN and Solstice Art Centre, Ireland), with her writing appearing in […]
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Colin Ward
Paul Dobraszczyk
He is the author of many books, the most recent being Animal Architecture: Beasts, Buildings and Us (Reaktion, 2023) and Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority (Paul Holberton, 2021).
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Festival of the Future City
Danny Dorling
In 2006, Dorling started working with a group of researchers on a project to remap the world (worldmapper.org) to show statistics such as population growth, languages spoken and products exported. He has published with many colleagues more than a dozen books on issues related to social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. Dorling […]
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Jane Duffus
After almost a decade working on lifestyle newsstand magazines in London (and a further decade freelancing from her current home of Bristol), Duffus’s key areas of interest are independent pop culture, women’s history, feminism and endurance running. Buy Jane Duffus’s The Women Who Built Bristol and The Women Who Built Bristol, Volume 2 now from […]
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Bristol 650
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Inua Ellams
He is an ambassador for the Ministry of Stories and his published books of poetry include Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars (2011), Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales (2005), The Wire-Headed Heathen (2015), #Afterhours (2017) and The Half-God of Rainfall (2019). His first play, The 14th Tale (2009), was awarded a Fringe First at the […]
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Lee Elliot Major
His work is dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people from under-resourced backgrounds. He works closely with school leaders, universities, global employers and governments to develop practical ways of improving educational and life prospects. He is an award winning author and his Penguin book, Social Mobility and Its Enemies, has attracted attention […]
