Speakers:

Lord Adonis

Labour Peer, former government minister and Director of the No.10 Policy Unit under Tony Blair

Benedict Macon-Cooney

Chief Policy Strategist at the Tony Blair Institute, with a special emphasis on artificial intelligence, biotech and clean tech

Cindy Yu

China reporter and Assistant Editor (Broadcast) at The Spectator; host of the Spectator’s Chinese Whispers podcast

Desmond Shum

Serial entrepreneur and author of Red Roulette: an insider’s story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today’s China

Dominic Cummings

Dominic Cummings ran various campaigns since 1999, including Vote Leave; he worked in the Department for Education and No10

Elisabeth Braw

Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at Atlantic Council and author of Goodbye Globalisation: The Return of a Divided World

Hilary Salt

Actuary and former partner at First Actuarial LLP a business she co-founded 20 years ago that now employs over 400 people across the UK

Inaya Folarin Iman

Journalist, broadcaster and Head of Events and Engagement at Civic Future; she is the founder and director of The Equiano Project

Joel Kotkin

Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

Liam Halligan

Economist, journalist, broadcaster and author of Home Truths: The UK’s chronic housing shortage – how it happened, why it matters and the way to solve it; he is the co-host of The Telegraph’s Planet Normal podcast

Marc Warner 

CEO and co-founder of Faculty; Marc has led Data Science projects for the UK Government and the NHS

Mark Pennington

Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at Kings’ College London, and author of Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (2011)

Rt Hon Michael Gove

British politician and government minister; Secretary of State for Education (2010-14), Justice (2015-16), Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (2017-19), and Housing and Levelling Up (2021-), Chief Whip (2014-15) and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2019-21)Labour Peer, former government minister and Director of the No.10 Policy Unit under Tony Blair

Mike Bird

Asia business and finance editor at The Economist, based in Singapore. He co-presents The Economist’s weekly podcast, Money Talks. Author of the upcoming book, The Land Trap

Munira Mirza

CEO of Civic Future. She was the Director of the No 10 Policy Unit between 2019-2022, and served previously as Deputy Mayor of London for eight years

Phil Mullan

Asia business and finance editor at The Economist, based in Singapore. He co-presents The Economist’s weekly podcast, Money Talks. Author of the upcoming book, The Land Trap

Professor Richard Jones

Vice-President for Innovation and Regional Economic Development and Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy at The University of Manchester

Sam Bowman

Founder and editor of Works in Progress at Stripe; publisher of the Consumer Surplus newsletter; former executive director, Adam Smith Institute

Samo Burja

Political scientist and president of Bismark Analysis, a political risk consultancy

Baroness Stuart

Crossbench life peer. Chair of Wilton Park. She was formerly co-chair of Vote Leave and served as a Labour MP from 1997 to 2017

Tanner Greer

Essayist, journalist, and independent researcher; he is the director of the Center for Strategic Translation; he writes and podcasts at the Scholar’s Stage

Yascha Mounk

Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time