(In partnership with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association)
Parliament of Karnataka, Bangalore, India
13 - 19 May 2006
| Professor Tim Shaw | Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London |
Globalization: how do we define it? what are the salient changes associated with it in the last 25 years?
| Dr Rajiv Kumar | Director, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations |
| Duncan Lewis | Carlyle Group |
When and where does globalization advance progress towards the Millennium Development Goals - and when and where does it retard it?
| Dr Sachin Chaturvedi | Research and Information System for Developing Countries |
| Dr Jane Parpart | London School of Economics |
Will the process of global economic integration continue? How far can it be managed by states separately or acting together?
| Dr Jonathan Perraton | Sheffield University |
What is the impact of globalization on civil society?
| Professor Marc Williams | University of New South Wales |
Case study: India and globalization I - What are the prospects for sustainable development?
| Dr Pradeep Agrawal | Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi |
| Professor Gita Sen | Sir Ratan Tata Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore |
Case study: India and globalization II - The creation of multi-national corporations from India - what role can an emerging economy play on the world stage?
| Alan Rosling | Executive Director, Tata Sons |
Getting globalization right: what should policy-makers be doing to maximize and spread benefits and to minimize harm?
| Hon. Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah | Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, Pakistan |
Advertised Synopsis
The huge, ill-defined complex of inter-related economic, technological and cultural changes which goes under the name of globalization has been trumpeted as either the solution to a vast range of problems or an uncontrolled juggernaut threatening many of the world's poorest individuals and countries. This conference will bring together parliamentarians and individuals from other key areas to discuss, inter alia:
One technique for considering these issues will be scenario building. Such an approach allows an integrated assessment of disparate strands of a question and generates outlines of a series of possible futures which can illuminate the opportunities and dangers ahead.
(In partnership with the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Wellcome Trust and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, nr Cambridge
20 - 26 August 2006
| Professor Martin Bobrow | University of Cambridge |
What’s in the pipeline? Genetic science in the coming decade
| Professor Hans Schöler | Max Planck Institute, Münster |
What are the real dilemmas left in human genetics: stem cell research, cloning, genetic enhancement? How are attitudes changing?
| Professor Michael Banner | Genomics Policy and Research Forum The University of Edinburgh |
| Dr Robin Lovell-Badge | MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London |
GM crops: fears and opportunities. Is the ‘precautionary principle’ striking the right balance?
| Professor Vivian Moses | Professor of Biotechnology, Division of Life Sciences, King's College London |
| Dr Jonathan Latham | Director of Programmes and Outreach, Bioscience Resource Project, Ledbury |
How well do the media inform the public debate about genetic science? Are there ways in which they could do it better?
| Joachim Müller-Jung | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |
| Claire Bithell | Senior Press Officer at the Science Media Centre |
Governance and accountability: balancing democracy and efficiency, public and private interests, short and long term interests. Have we got the institutions right?
| Dr Rudolf Teuwsen | Head of the Office of the German National Ethics Council, Berlin |
| Dr Charlotte Augst | UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority |
Defining genetic information
| Dr Ron Zimmern | Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge |
Bio-informatics: how to maximize uses, minimize abuses
| Professor Michael Ashburner | Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge |
DNA and forensic science: how to maximize uses, minimize abuses
| Dr Robin Williams | School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham |
How can research best be encouraged? Patenting, the public/private balance, European initiatives
| Dr Tim Hubbard | Head of Human Genome Analysis, the Sanger Institute |
Globalization: how well balanced are competition and collaboration in the international research effort in genetic science? How equitable are its outcomes?
| Dr John Wain | The Sanger Institute |
| Professor Bin Liu | Assistant Director, Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Advertised Synopsis
Recent advances in genetic science – human, animal and plant – have been dramatic in recent years, and more are promised for the coming decades, which are likely to be among the key developments of the 21st century. It is time to review both the science and the debates which surround it about how we best establish ethical boundaries while nurturing creativity in research and application, and, in the light of this, assess how well we are setting the direction of public policy in Europe and the world at large, and developing the relationship between science and society. Topics will include: what can realistically be expected from genetic science in the coming decade; the ongoing debates which link ethics, risk and benefit (such as stem-cell research, cloning, the use of GM crops, xenotransplantation, and the enhancement of animals or even humans); how public engagement, governance, and accountability in these areas can best be improved and structured; issues of the ownership of individual and population genetic information, and the proper balance between its use and the privacy of individuals; as well as how best to encourage dynamic, responsible research, whether public or private, addressing needs both at the national and global level.
(In collaboration with the John Smith Memorial Trust and in partnership with Asquith & Granovski Associates)
Kiev and Crimea
25 September - 3 October 2006
| Baroness Smith | John Smith Memorial Trust |
| John Lotherington | 21st Century Trust |
| Professor Valentin Yakushik | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Dr Mychailo Wynnyckyj | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Anastasia Leukhina | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Dr Natalia Shulga | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Dr Andriy Meleshevich | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Dr Myroslava Antonovych | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Dr Alexander Demianchuk | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Dr Myhailo Kirsenko | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Kateryna Maksym | University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy |
| Andrey Kurkov | Novelist, author of Death and the Penguin |
| Vitaliy Kuchynsky | Director, Democratising Ukraine Small Project Scheme |
| Yuliya Kovalevskaya | Member of the Ukrainian Parliament |
| Olena Lukash | Member of the Ukrainian Parliament |
| Dr Alexei Plotnikov | Member of the Ukrainian Parliament |
| Ivan Popesku | Member of the Ukrainian Parliament |
| Tania Popova | All-Ukrainian Association of the Internet |
| Dr Serge Azarov | Lucky Net |
| Olexiy Koval | Inter TV |
| Thomas Eymond-Laritaz | Director, the Pinchuk Foundation |
| Dr Victor Nebozhenko | Political scientist, Director of ‘Ukrainian Barometer’ |
| Ihor Mityukov | Formerly Minister of Finance and Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK |
| Vasyl Shevchenko | Deputy Chairman, the Ukrainian State Committee for TV and Radio Broadcasting |
Advertised Synopsis
In 2004 the Orange Revolution was heralded as a decisive step forward in securing democracy in Ukraine, bringing corruption under control, and ushering in new relationships with Russia, other European countries and the international community in general. This study tour is intended to explore what has been achieved politically, economically and socially since the revolution, what remains to be done, and how perceptions have changed now that the immediate euphoria of victory on one side of the political divide, and the sense of defeat on the other, have dissipated. A further purpose of the tour is to consolidate links between Ukraine and other countries, particularly the UK, to exchange ideas and views of the world, to explore possibilities of development, and forge new links among the Fellows of both the 21st Century Trust Fellows and the John Smith Memorial Trust. We are most grateful to Asquith & Granovski Associates for their generous support of this study tour.
(In partnership with the Environment Foundation)
St George’s House, Windsor Castle
21 - 23 January 2006
Possible futures for the world economy: the global impact of emerging economies by 2025
| Dr Richard O’Brien | Outsights |
| Doug Miller | President, Globescan |
Case study: China (I) What are the most salient challenges for sustainable development and how might they best be met?
| Dr Pan Jiahua | Director, Global Change and Economic Development Programme/Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
| Dr Vivek Tandon | CEO, Aloe Private Equity |
| Tessa Tennant | Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia |
Case study: China (II) - Civil society and sustainable development: the role of NGOs
| Dr Lu Yiyi | Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London |
What are the tensions for TNCs, and business in general, in the context of sustainable development in emerging economies?
| Mandy Cormack | Aldwyns |
| Jane Nelson | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School, Harvard University |
| Dr Mukund Rajan | Tata Group |
Capacity development for the environment in emerging economies: lessons from CEE countries in transition
| Professor Stacy Vandeveer | University of New Hampshire |
Brief Description
The purpose of the meeting is to identify the best strategies, given the new realities arising from emerging economies, to enhance sustainable development working through civil society, business, governments, and global governance. The leading case study will be China, examining the relevant issues from the point of view of government and the economy and that of civil society. Different possible futures will be assessed, and the meeting will feature a scenario-building exercise exploring risks.
(with the generous assistance of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation)
London, UK
10 - 11 March 2006
Case study: Tour of Coin Street
| Iain Tuckett | Group Director, Coin Street Community Builders |
Social entrepreneurs and profit: what can engagement in the market give and what might it take away?
| Ian Charles Stewart | Chairman, SevenPeaks Capital Ltd |
| Craig Cohon | CEO & Founding Partner, Globalegacy International |
The social entrepreneur as hero: what can – or cannot – be achieved through focusing on individual change-makers?
| Charles Handy | Author, most recently of The New Philanthropists: Making a Difference |
| Rowena Young | Director of the Said Business School Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship |
Social entrepreneurs and the state: what is the potential in the relationship? What are the hazards?
| Geoff Mulgan | Director, The Young Foundation |
| Gerard Lemos | Lemos and Crane, and Deputy Chair, British Council |
Case study: Slum Jam – meeting social needs in Nairobi
| Cezary Bednarski | Architect |
Learning from the past, looking to the future: how might social entrepreneurship develop in the coming decades?
| Dr Pamela Hartigan | Executive Director, The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship |
Brief Description
Social entrepreneurship is of growing significance as a dynamic response to problems in societies which are hard to address through established institutions. Although difficult to pin down, and overlapping with areas like social enterprise and civil society, it can be defined as the adoption of an entrepreneurial approach in identifying and finding novel solutions for unmet social needs. Infinitely varied in practice, it occurs within sectors – including government, business, and NGOs – as well as through co-operative ventures between actors from any or all of these. Looked to in some places as a way to bring private sector inventiveness to bear on issues usually ignored by the market, it is distrusted in others – especially where it takes a for-profit form – as a creeping commercialization of areas appropriate either to government or NGO-based solutions. This conference will look critically at the phenomenon, and the extent to which it does offer a more creative way ahead in building flourishing societies. The Trust would like to thank Coin Street Community Builders and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for hosting this event.
(with the generous assistance of Deutsche Bank and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
Deutsche Bank Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany
6 - 7 April 2006
Entrepreneurship’s Changing Role
| Sir Geoffrey Owen | Senior Fellow, Institute of Management, London School of Economics, former editor Financial Times |
Entrepreneurship in the UK and Germany: What’s life really like at the coalface
| Dr Rebecca Harding | Senior Fellow, London Business School |
Transatlantic differences: Who does it better and why?
| Matthew Bishop | US Business Editor, The Economist |
| Dr Ansbert Gadicke | Founder & General Partner, MPM Group |
The practitioners’ views: what are the prerequisites for a thriving entrepreneurial culture
| David Soskin | CEO, Cheapflights |
| Dr Wolfgang Soehngen | CEO, Paion |
The impact of finance structures and strategies on entrepreneurial success
| Dr Clemens Börsig | Chief Financial Officer, Deutsche Bank |
Brief Description
Entrepreneurship is seen as key to economic success, and it is increasingly recognised that social entrepreneurs are vital also to other aspects of community life. Entrepreneurship in the United States is put forward by some as the role model to follow, but how far is that transferable into different social and cultural contexts? At this seminar Germany and the UK will be taken as case studies of entrepreneurship in Europe. What is the essential character of entrepreneurship now and in what ways does it appear to be changing in the future? Are there ways change should be encouraged further through education or other means at the national or European level? Does an increasing emphasis on entrepreneurialism bring with it dangers as well as dynamism? The Trust would like to thank the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Deutsche Bank for their generous support of this event.
(in cooperation with Cumberland Lodge)
Château Klingenthal, near Strasbourg
15 - 17 September
What are the ideological roots of jihadi terrorism in Europe? Why do some European-born young Muslims find the ideology so attractive?
| Professor George Joffe | King’s College, London |
What is the scale and extent of the terrorist threat in Europe today? How is it likely to develop in the future?
| Dr Peter Neumann | Director, Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College London |
The Contemporary Debate: Uncertainties, Dilemmas and Limits
| Paul Schulte | Senior Visiting Fellow, Advanced Research and Assessment Group, UK Defence Academy |
What can be done by states, Muslim communities, and civil society at large in Europe, to reduce the appeal of jihadi terrorism?
| Professor Sami Zubaida | Birkbeck College, London |
Brief Description
One distinction between terrorists and other criminals is adherence to an ideology which both motivates and justifies, in the perpetrators’ minds, various outrages in pursuit of a set of ends. This conference will examine the thinking which underlies the actions of groups such as Al Qaeda and those that see themselves as its affiliates in Europe, as a precursor to considering how best to address the threat they pose. Questions will include: What is the nature and history of the terrorists’ ideology? What is its relationship to modernity, which it professes to reject but with whose totalitarian pathologies it has much in common and whose tools it readily adopts? Why is it so attractive to some young Muslims in Europe that they would take their own lives in support of it as well as those of their fellow citizens? What have been the enduring reactions to the Madrid and London bombings among Islamic and non-Islamic communities in Europe, and how can they best respond to the set of ideas which underlie the violence? Along with the criminal prosecution of terrorists, what can and should communities do in terms of preventative action?
US Congress, Washington DC
27 - 28 October 2006
The meaning of the 21st Century
| Dr James Martin | Business consultant, author and lecturer, and founder of the James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford University |
The leadership challenge: how can leaders and institutions, responding to shorter-term political and economic pressures, ensure survivability in the future?
| The Hon Robert Walker | Chairman, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, formerly Congressman and Chairman of the House Science Committee |
| Dr Joseph Duffey | Senior Vice President, Laureate Education and formerly Asst US Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs |
Bottom lines and long term risks: in what ways can and should business leaders be preparing better for the future?
| Matthew Bishop | The Economist |
The 21st Century, the security challenge and the 'meaning' of technology
| Professor Christopher Coker | London School of Economics |
Filling the Hobbesian Gap: Layers of Security in the 21st Century
| Jerry Howe | The Olive Group |
Sustainable development: what have we achieved? What is there still to do?
| Jane Nelson | Center for Business and Government, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
Brief Description
At the start of the 21st century, humanity faces several interlinked and pressing crises relating to environmental degradation, uneven economic development, and burgeoning threats to security, globally and regionally. Individually or collectively these crises have the potential to undermine the developed world’s comfortable lifestyles as much as de-railing development in the rest of the world. At the same time, a number of foreseeable technological innovations may be crucial in resolving these crises and, beyond that, hold the long-term promise of almost unimaginable improvements to the human condition - although the use of some new technologies present their own threats. The conference will look at the inter-relationships of these issues and explore from where the leadership to address them might come. As James Martin, author of The Meaning of the 21st Century, and our keynote speaker, puts it ‘The 21st Century is an extraordinary time – a century of extremes. We could create much grander civilizations, or we could trigger a new Dark Ages’.