This event is in partnership with the Resolution Foundation

The accumulation and distribution of wealth across Britain has been a contentious issue since the dawn of economics. But while wealth inequality is traditionally viewed as being between rich and poor, a new divide is also emerging – the wealth gap between generations.

The failure of younger generations to accumulate wealth – through pensions, property and savings – will reduce their lifetime living standards, particularly once they reach retirement. This would have profound implications for both families and the state, so what can be done?

As part of its Intergenerational Commission, chaired by Lord Willetts, the Resolution Foundation will soon be publishing a series of papers analysing Britain’s wealth across generations. Ahead of this launch, the Oxford Martin School is hosting an event to explore these issues and the role of public policy in tackling Britain’s new wealth divides.

Experts from the Foundation will present some of the emerging findings from its work on intergenerational wealth inequality, while Professors John Muellbauer and Brian Nolan will discuss possible policy responses, before taking part in an audience Q&A.

N.B. This event is not yet confirmed; however we expect it to be very popular. Please register your interest and, once confirmed, your registration will be converted into an order.

In 2013, the Bank of Japan adopted quantitative and qualitative monetary easing; a policy of unprecedented large-scale monetary easing. Since then, the economic and price situation in Japan has greatly improved.

In this talk, Governor Kuroda will recount how he was strongly inspired about the importance of expectations in monetary policy by a lecture by Professor Hicks when he studied here at the University of Oxford. He will discuss the latest monetary policy measures in today’s banking as well as topics to help central banks to appropriately manage people’s inflation expectations and raise the effectiveness of monetary policy in a global low-growth, low-inflation environment.

The seminar will take place at Saïd Business School followed by a short networking drinks reception and is open for anyone to attend. Please remember that registration is required.

Saïd Business School is pleased to welcome Justin King CBE, former CEO of Sainsbury’s plc and Vice Chair of Terra Firma, to speak at the School on Monday 12 June as part of the Responsible Leadership Seminar series.

The Myth of Change: Business and responsibility in the 21st century

What are the responsibilities of business? What should business leaders hold themselves responsible for, and to whom? In his talk Justin King CBE will talk about the practices of business today, and the ways in which the changes that are being put in place by businesses are in many instances either ignoring or – even worse – recreating the problems of the past. He brings to the subject a serious perspective on what needs to change if business is to regain a position of trust, and insights into what you – as future leaders – need to consider.

Oxford India Speaker series and Saïd Business School presents:
Ajay G. Piramal in conversation with Dean Peter Tufano

The event will span a range of topics including entrepreneurship, the future of the Indian economy and business ethics.

Mr Ajay Piramal is one of India’s leading industrialists, philanthropists and social entrepreneurs. He is the Chairman of a business conglomerate, Piramal Group & Shriram Group (market cap: $7.5 billion; Revenue $3 billion), with activities in healthcare, financial services, real estate, information services, glass packaging and more.

The seminar is open for anyone to attend and will take place at Saïd Business School on Tuesday 13 June followed by a short networking drinks reception until around 7.30pm. Please remember that registration is required to attend this event.

Speakers:

Ivor Crewe (Master, University College, Oxford)

Anne Deighton (Emeritus Professor of European International Politics, St Antony’s College, Oxford)

Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford)

Iain McLean (Emeritus Professor of Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford)

Chair

Ben Jackson (Associate Professor of Modern History, University College, Oxford)

All are welcome.

Alumni Panel with Professor Julia Bray, Dr Abigail Tompkins, Dr Marco Haenssgen and Dr Sony Pellissery

Insight on careers in, and after, academia

Professor Julia Bray, DPhil Oriental Studies, 1974

After graduating from St Hilda’s, University of Oxford with a degree in Oriental Studies, Julia became one of the first graduate students at St Cross, in the days of the Wooden Hut. She wrote her DPhil on medieval Arabic poetic criticism at the same time as working part-time for the British Academy Oriental Documents Committee on the archives of the British Political Agency in Kuwait.

Julia then taught Arabic and a bit of everything related to Arabic at Manchester University for four years on short-term contracts. When that job fell through, she was self-employed for a year and edited a volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Julia then worked for Edinburgh University teaching contemporary newspaper and broadcast Arabic, which is a standard part of Arabic degrees now, but was a new subject then. She taught herself on the job and published the first description and textbook, Media Arabic. Five years off the career ladder for family reasons were followed by seven years at the University of St Andrews (overlapping with Prince William and Kate Middleton) and nine years on the chalk-edge at Paris 8—Vincennes-Saint Denis. Julia became the first female Laudian (now AS AlBabtain-Laudian) Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford in 2012.

Dr Abigail Tompkins, DPhil Archaeology, 2011

Abi Tompkins completed her DPhil in Archaeology at St Cross earlier this year, having been awarded her MSt from the College in 2012. Abi’s research focused on the emergence of polities or ‘proto-kingdoms’ in the wake of the post-Roman collapse in Britain in the 5th century AD. Her work explored how material culture and patterns of landscape use could be used to understand the development of distinct groups of people and, particularly, how areas between them became places of contact and coalescence. During her studies Abi worked for local government archaeological and museum services, she taught British Archaeology modules, and consulted on the deposition of a major local, community archaeology project in east Oxford, to name but a few. Today, Abi continues to work in local government archaeology, working with West Berkshire Council and Oxfordshire County Council.

The portfolio career of an archaeologist: building your toolkit.

The university recommends that “full-time graduate students on a taught course do not undertake more than 8 hours’ paid work each week” and “students on research courses are advised that any paid work should still allow them to spend at least 40 hours per week…on their studies”. Take into consideration any working restrictions and consult with your supervisor and you can find work which will help set you up for life post-St Cross. Using my own experiences, I want to talk to you about making opportunities and capitalising on your time in this dynamic city.

Part of the St Cross College Alumni talks series

Ed Macalister-Smith,St Cross alumnus (MSc Forestry and its Relation to Land Use, 1978)

Ed will talk about his career experience of the English National Health Service – “the NHS is the nearest thing the British have to a national religion” (quoted as such by leaders from both the left and right of British politics). Ed has worked in senior management roles in the NHS for 30 years, 13 years as a CEO of various bits of it, including one of our local Oxford hospitals. Ed will welcome observations, questions and debate from the audience. He will also reflect on some of the many conundrums faced by leaders in the NHS, which make the NHS CEO role one of the best jobs there is…

Ed is currently a non-executive director of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire; Chair of one of the National Institute for Health Research funding Panels (NIHR HS&DR); a leadership mentor for clinical leaders; and the occasional Independent Reviewer of Ratings for the CQC (Care Quality Commission) – as well as a Board member for the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and a keen gardener.

His final full-time role in the NHS was as system CEO for the NHS for Wiltshire and Bath with an annual turnover of £1bn. Earlier, he was CEO of the then-independent Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust in Oxford, and signed the contract to rebuild it through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

Ed was privileged to be an early student member of St Cross, when the College buildings consisted of the “wooden hut”, and is grateful for the support of the College in enabling him to complete the MSc in Forestry and Land Management at the then Commonwealth Forestry Institute on South Parks Road.

Procter&Gamble known as P&G is an American consumer goods multinational founded in 1837. It operates through the following segments: Beauty, Hair, and Personal; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric Care and Home Care; and Baby, Feminine and Family Care. It has many consumer brands within its portfolio among which Pampers, Always and Gillette.
In the UK, P&G has three main innovation centres based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Reading and Egham. Every year they offer several internships in different sectors spanning from 10 weeks to 12 months.

Our speaker:

Aline Fornear is a senior R&D manager at PGT healthcare. She has integrated P&G in 2009 after doing a 4-month internship in the Newcastle centre. Aline will talk about internships and jobs currently available at P&G as well as giving advice on how to write CVs and approach the online assessment test.

Please make sure to reserve your tickets using this link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/event-with-proctergamble-tickets-39238985863

Please note that the event will take place at the Cohen quad in Walton Street NOT in the main Exeter building !

Join us at LMH for an In Conversation with Gary Lineker and Alan Rusbridger
Gary Lineker OBE was one of England’s top football strikers in the 1980s and early 1990s, and holds England’s record for goals in FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 scored. In a career which has spanned 16 years and 567 competitive games, he scored a total 330 goals. Gary was awarded an OBE in January 1992 for services to Association Football and has presented the flagship programme Match of the Day since the late 1990s.

The Oxford Guild is delighted to welcome a very special, high profile and unique guest for what will be one of the biggest and most exciting events of the year – Valtteri Bottas, the Formula 1 Grand Prix Winning Mercedes driver from Finland (they just won this year’s world championship again), currently 3rd in the World Drivers Championship and the teammate of the World Champion Lewis Hamilton and previously Felipe Massa. Valtteri Bottas is flying specially to Oxford to speak to you this Thursday 2nd November at 7.30pm just before the season is over with the final two races of the season coming up, which is unprecedented! We are delighted to have specially secured him as a keynote guest speaker for you and the talk and Q&A session will take place in the Oxford Town Hall, one of the largest venues in the city. THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL – REGISTER HERE ASAP FOR YOUR PLACE! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/valtteri-bottas-mercedes-f1-grandprix-winning-racer-talk-the-oxfordguild-tickets-39342911708This will undoubtedly be one of the biggest and most fascinating events of the year – do not miss out on your seat!

This is a truly unique and unprecedented opportunity to hear from and ask questions of such a high profile and prestigious speaker and one of the biggest names in sport and the high octane world of F1 with such a fascinating story in racing. DO NOT MISS OUT ON WHAT PROMISES TO BE A HIGHLY INTERESTING, INSIGHTFUL AND EXCITING TALK AND OCCASION where you can hear from and ask questions of the man who has won the World Constructors’ Championship in 2017, won Grands Prix, raced with huge figures such as teammate Lewis Hamilton and stands 3rd in the World Drivers Championship at the moment! Get an inside look into the glitzy, glamourous and high stakes world of Formula One and hear the unique insider stories from Valterri! A wonderful way to spend a Thursday evening in Oxford before 5th week looms!

The will be an opportunity for questions and if you would like to ballot for the chance to meet Valtteri Bottas and speak to him directly over drinks and take photos in a private reception please ballot using the form here: https://tinyurl.com/MeetBottasBallot and email president@theoxfordguild.com ASAP.

WHEN: 7.30pm, Thursday 2nd November 2017 (4th week)
WHERE: Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate’s, OX1 1BX
RESERVE YOUR PLACE FOR FREE NOW HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/valtteri-bottas-mercedes-f1-grandprix-winning-racer-talk-the-oxfordguild-tickets-39342911708

Valtteri is considered to be one of the most exciting racers and young talents in Formula 1 and has recently renewed his Mercedes contract as Lewis Hamilton’s teammate, having previously raced for Williams. He has consistently been a high performer and is known for his ice cool composure, nimble driving style and ability to learn quickly which makes him stand out from his racing peers. Born in August 1989 in Nastola, Finland, he was entered for his very first kart race at the age of six and over the ensuing decade, the karting circuits of Finland and Europe would become his home from home. He won numerous races and Championships and was a member of the Finnish national karting squad for seven years In 2007, at the age of 17, he made the step up to single-seater racing. Valtteri made his Formula One debut at Albert Park, Melbourne, in the 2013 Australian Grand Prix, thereby becoming the ninth driver from Finland to compete at this level. His debut season turned out to be a difficult one – but he at least outscored his team-mate Pastor Maldonado by four points to one. The era of the Hybrid Power Units in Formula One began in 2014. After a change of engine supplier at Williams, Valtteri was back in a Mercedes-powered vehicle for the first time since his spell in Formula 3. He registered his best season so far in the highest echelon of the sport, making six podium appearances and scoring 186 championship points to finish the campaign in fourth position, behind the Silver Arrows duo of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg and three-time race winner Daniel Ricciardo. That year, Valtteri and his team-mate Felipe Massa secured third place for Williams in the Constructors’ Championship. His best results were two runner-up spots in the British and German Grands Prix. In the 2015 season, Valtteri once again outscored his team-mate Felipe Massa, despite missing out on the start of the season due to a back injury. He made two podium appearances and finished the year with 136 points. In the 2016 season, his fourth in Formula One, Valtteri secured his team’s sole podium finish, which came in the Canadian Grand Prix. He again came out on top in the internal contest against team-mate Felipe Massa by a score of 85 to 53 points. For the 2017 season, Valtteri signed to race for Mercedes, as teammate to Lewis Hamilton, replacing Nico Rosberg who retired after winning the 2016 Championship. This made him the 11th driver to compete in Formula One with the Silver Arrows, following in the footsteps of the great Juan Manuel Fangio, Sir Stirling Moss, Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. He stands currently 3rd in the World Drivers Championship after having won 2 races (Russia & Austrian Grands Prix 2017) and received 10 podium places.

This is yet another in a series of incredibly high profile speakers the Guild has lined up – we have been working industriously behind the scenes and would recommend you watch this space! Following one of the biggest speakers in the last 15 years in the form of Kanye West, and other great guest speakers such as Stormzy, Woody Harrelson, Nobel Prize winning Professor Yunus, Lil Jon, Martin Garrix to name a few, the illustrious and award winning Oxford Guild Society, after a great deal of hard work and extensive negotiations, is excited to bring you another huge figure from and one of the biggest speakers of the year. DO NOT MISS OUT ON ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING AND ENTERTAINING EVENTS OF TERM!

Come to the Oxford Town Hall at 7.30pm on Thursday 2nd November to learn about Valtteri Bottas’ fascinating life journey, and the exciting world of Formula 1 and hear his unique stories during the course of his career! THE EVENT IS 100% FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College who discovered pulsars as a radio astronomy PhD student 50 years ago this autumn. She is currently the (first female) President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Abstract: This presentation will consider the ethical dimensions of Brexit. Specifically the case will be made that there are profound ethical questions posed by Brexit that have not properly been considered. The focus of the public debate has been largely on the pragmatic, economic and political reasons for and against Brexit. It is important to supplement these with a consideration of the ethical questions raised by it. In a book he edited entitled Political Restructuring in Europe: Ethical Perspectives (1994) Chris Brown made a case for constitutive theory as a way of approaching the ethical issues involved in proposals for restructuring Europe in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia. In this talk his analysis will be extended, illustrating how constitutive theory produces surprising, enlightening and important results that have so far been absent from the debate. The insights point to a set of political imperatives that ought not to be ignored.

Mervyn Frost is Professor of International Relations in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. Publications include: Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations (CUP, 1986), Ethics in International Relations (CUP, 1996), Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States (Routledge, 2002) and Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations (Routledge, 2009). He edited a 4 volume reference work entitled International Ethics (Sage 2011). His recent work, with Dr Silviya Lechner, is focused on the “practice turn” in International Relations. Their book Practice Theory and International Relations is to be published by CUP in 2018.

Professional social media like LinkedIn are changing the professional landscape. Users can now connect and get to be known by creating personal information profiles and inviting colleagues to have access to those profiles. Sending emails and connecting to professional in different sectors became very easy. Recruiters can reach you easily in a matter of seconds. However, it is sometimes hard to identify the right pathways to make our professional social profile most profitable. Reaching out unknown professional can be especially very challenging and stressful when we don’t know how to engage.
Join us to our social workshop: we will talk about tips and tools to build good relationship skills in order to get a powerful network. We will be later joined via a skype call by Jenny Mith who is a business development and outreach manager at CodeSmith LLC.
Codesmith is a selective, need-blind 1- or 12- week program teaching Software Engineering and Machine Learning with locations at LA, NY and Oxford University. Jenny will give us insight on how to make a social profile more attractive and visible using digital and/or coding tools.

The workshop will be held on Tuesday 14th of November and will start from 5.30 till 7 p.m at the Stapeldon room in Exeter college (Main building). The event is aimed to be informal and fun. Feel free to bring a laptop or tablet to work on your Linkedin ( or other professional) profile.

All details in link below!

Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in Pathein, Myanmar, the paper investigates the moral underpinnings of responsibilities and hierarchies in small businesses, specifically the question of what makes a good employer. It will show how responsibilities beyond the mere paying of wages do not overcome the socio-economic gap between workers and employers, and that essentially, the shop floor remains an arena of control and inequality. The main case study is a tea shop, where a large part of the workforce is underage. Incorporating the perspectives of employers, workers and their families, customers, and agents, this talk will outline the complex moral arguments surrounding the employment of children and children’s roles as economic actors.

Laura Hornig is a PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Germany), specializing in economic anthropology. She is also a co-founder of the Berlin-based think tank “Myanmar-Institut e.V.”

In this talk on Stress, Strain, and Overwork in Historical Perspective Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Faculty of English Language and Literature) will look at discussions of stress and overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era. Although we are clearly living in a radically altered world, there are nonetheless startling similarities in the ways the problems of overwork have been framed and debated, then and now.

Registration is free. Booking essential.

Click here to register for your free ticket.

Lunch from 12.30pm. Talk from 1pm.

This event is part of UK Disability History Month 22 Nov-22 Dec.

The Oxford Fabian Society host the Fabian Society regional conference.

Embracing Change: Socialism for a Brave New World

Outline programme

9:00-9:30: registration

9:30: Welcome: Oxford and the Fabian Society. Michael Weatherburn (Secretary, Oxford Fabians)

9:45-10:15: Opening plenary. Kate Green MP (Chair, Fabian Society) and Andrew Harrop (General Secretary, Fabian Society)

10:15-11:15: Panel 1, Taking Our Place: workers affecting workplace change. Annaliese Dodds MP (Oxford East), Melanie Simms (Leicester University), & Caroline Raine (Area Organiser, UNISON). Facilitator: David Yates (Vice-Chair, Oxford Fabians)

11:45-12:45: Panel 2, New Channels of Influence. Shaista Aziz (journalist, writer), Ann Black (Labour NEC), Richard Fletcher (Reuters Institute, Oxford University), Dan Iley-Williamson (Labour city councillor, Holywell & Oxford Momentum). Facilitator: Nick Fahy (Oxford Fabians).

12:45-13:30: Lunch (not provided)

13:30-14:30: Panel 3, The Defence of the Realm. Alex Donnelly (Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford University), Sophy Gardner (RAF, Exeter University), Michael Pryce (Centre for Defence Acquisition, Cranfield University), Chris Williams (Open University). Facilitator: Rosemary Preston (Oxford Fabians).

14:45-15:45: Discussion, Does Socialism Need Patriotism? Facilitated by the Young Fabians.

15:45-16:45: Panel 4, The Local Elections, May 2018. Shaista Aziz (2018 Labour candidate, Rose Hill), Steven Curran (Labour councillor, Iffley Fields), Alex Donnelly (Labour candidate, Hinksey Park 2018), Bob Price (Labour councillor, Hinksey Park), Martyn Rush (Labour candidate, Barton and Sandhills 2018), Christine Simm (Labour councillor, Cowley and Deputy Lord Mayor). Facilitator: Elsa Dawson (Oxford Fabians).

16:45-17:00: Closing remarks, Oxford: Local Politics, Big Picture, 1980-2050. Bob Price (Leader of Oxford City Council, Leader of the Labour Group, and Labour Councillor, Hinksey Park).

We, the Oxford University Swiss Society, are delighted to host Mr Ambassador Alexandre
Fasel, who is the new Swiss Ambassador in the UK since September 2017.

He will give a talk on Monday, January 15th, at 6pm in the Oakeshott
room in Lincoln college. This will be followed by drinks in the adjacent
Langford room, where it is possible to interact with him and ask
him questions.

Registration is not required – everyone is welcome.

The OSS team,
Anita, Camille, Claudia, Fabian, Jasmin, Lisa, Matthias, Philippe, Seb,
Tiziana, Vincent

Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence; robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyse stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces and advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a threat to low-skilled labour. Now, many high-skilled functions, including interpreting medical images, doing legal research, and analysing data, are within the skill sets of machines. How can higher education prepare students for their professional lives when professions themselves are disappearing?

Join Northeastern University’s President Joseph Aoun in conversation as he discusses new ways to educate the next generation of university students to invent, to create, and to discover – to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot.

There will be a drinks reception and book signing following the talk, all welcome

Revd. Kate Seagrave studied linguistics here at Oxford before becoming ordained, leading to her return to work with the postgrads at St Aldates and the Oxford Pastorate. In this research presentation we will get to hear more about an academic hero of hers: Jan Amos Comenius. More than an educational theorist, he was also a noteworthy theologian and hymn writer.

Against the backdrop of the rich judicial output of the Strasbourg Court, the case law under Article 4 (slavery, servitude, forced labour and human trafficking) of the European Convention on Human Rights is scarce. This is more than surprising against the backdrop of ample empirical evidence showing that migrants are subjected to severe forms of exploitation in Europe. To be more precise, the existing judgments in which the Court has dealt with abuses inflicted by non-state actors (e.g. employers) reaching the level of severity of Article 4 are eight, the latest one delivered on 30 March 2017, Chowdury and Others v. Greece, and involving exploitation of 42 Bangladeshi migrants on a strawberry farm. All the other seven cases (Siliadin v. France, Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia, CN. and V. v. France, C.N. v. the United Kingdom, M. and Others v. Italy and Bulgaria, L.E. v. Greece and J. and Others v. Austria) reviewed by the Court also involve migrants.

In my presentation (based on my book Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered ) I will assess the significance of the above mentioned judgments for the rights of migrants and I will suggest some prospective developments in the future case law under Article 4. More specifically, Article 4 of the ECHR will open a new vista for contestation between the interests of migrants and the interests of states. This will challenge the host states’ immigration control objectives, which structure migrants’ presence and determine the conditions under which they can stay and work. Accordingly, in addition to Articles 3 (non-refoulement), 5 (immigration detention) and 8 (family life) of the ECHR, which are usually invoked for unsettling the statist assumption, Article 4 will open new opportunities in this direction. Despite this optimism, I will also show that this contestation will not be easy. Finally, I will compare the nature of the conflict that arises between the objective to protect migrants and the objective to exercise effective immigration control, in different areas: Article 4 as opposed to Articles 3 and 5 of the ECHR.

Professor Susan Brooks will take you on a personal journey beginning in breast cancer research and leading to a passionate commitment to supporting and developing the next generation of researchers.
Susan discovered that a chemical from the edible snail was able to distinguish between cancers that are able to spread from their original site to other parts of the body, and those that cannot. It recognises altered sugar chains on cancer cells that are involved in them being able to crawl through tissues and enter the blood stream and allows them to stick to the lining of blood vessels at distant sites.

Carrie Gracie grew up mostly in North-East Scotland and set up a restaurant before taking a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. She spent a year teaching in two Chinese universities and then built a small film business before joining the BBC in 1987 as a trainee producer.

She went back to China as the BBC’s Beijing reporter in the early 1990s and served as China correspondent and Beijing bureau chief until 1999 when she returned to the UK to focus on presenting. For several years she anchored the morning slot on the BBC News Channel and hosted the weekly BBC World Service programme, The Interview. In April 2014, she took up a newly created post as BBC China Editor and has since covered many news stories in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She has also made documentaries about China for TV and radio, winning prizes including a Peabody and an Emmy.

In January 2018, she left her post as BBC China editor in protest at unequal pay. She published an open letter to BBC audiences on the subject and appeared before a parliamentary select committee. She has since returned to BBC HQ as a news presenter and continues to campaign for an equal, fair and transparent pay structure.

St Anne’s College is proud to host an inspiring group of entrepreneurs to demystify the field of entrepreneurship and explain some of the paths to a career in this field.

Our speakers will present their first-hand experiences from different areas of the start-up ecosystem, from founding and growing successful companies to investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs. The talks will be followed by a Q&A panel session featuring young entrepreneurs sharing their journeys to show their routes into the field. With this range of involvement, you will be able to get a feel for how to be a part of start-ups from joining an existing team to developing your own ideas.

This event is open to everyone and free to attend. There will be a networking drinks reception following the talks where you will be able to carry on discussion.

Matt Clifford – Matt is a co-founder and chief executive of Entrepreneur First (EF), the world’s leading technology start-up builder. Since 2011 they have helped build over 140 start-ups that are now collectively worth over $1 billion. EF’s mission is to bring together individuals who want to start their entrepreneurial journeys and in this process, sthey help put people together to create cofounding teams that go on to build companies.

David Langer – During his Maths degree at Oxford, David founded GroupSpaces – a software company to help university clubs and societies manage themselves, hosting over 5 million memberships. After six years working on this, he then moved on to found Zesty, a Y Combinator backed corporate meal provider based in Silicon Valley that has raised over $20 million from investors. David is also an angel investor and startup advisor working with over 20 companies across Europe, Asia and the United States

Professor Linda McDowell, CBE, DLitt, FBA (The School of Geography and St John’s College) presents Moving Stories: the working lives of migrant women in post-war Britain. “Migration and employment are central issues in understanding the transformation of Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. I explore the connections between the shift to a service economy and an increasingly diverse workforce through the lens of the life stories of women who moved to Britain between 1946 and 2010.

Speaker: ANAND MENON, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College, London, directs the ESRC Initiative ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’.

Anand Menon has written for the Financial Times, Prospect, The Guardian,The Daily Telegraph, The Times and Le Monde. He is a frequent commentator on national and international broadcast media and has made several radio documentaries on contemporary politics.
He is a member of the Council of the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate fellow of Chatham House.

The digital revolution marks a profound transformation of society, on par with the great general purpose technologies of the past two centuries: the steam engine, internal combustion engine, and electrification. Each reshaped the economy, nature of work, geography of human settlements, and politics. So too is the digital revolution reshaping 21st century society. Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs’ talk will focus on the basic economics of the digital revolution and the implications for jobs and the distribution of income. Professor Sachs will discuss several key economic policy implications of the digital era.

Dominic Barton, Global Managing Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, and Professor Peter Tufano, Peter Moores Dean of Saïd Business School, will discuss leadership lessons Mr. Barton learned during his tenure at McKinsey and how business leaders can respond to global forces which are changing our world.

Join us as part of Black History Month at Oxford Brookes to hear from Dr Cecilia Akrisie Anim President of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

Cecilia shares her experiences as the first BME President of the RCN; her inspiration throughout her four decades in the NHS; and the challenges and opportunities facing a new generation of nursing staff.

Cecilia originally trained as a midwife in Ghana, where she worked before moving to the UK and qualifying as a nurse in 1977. Cecilia works as a clinical nurse specialist in sexual and reproductive health at the Margaret Pyke Centre in London and specialises in family planning and aspects of women’s health with a particular interest in menopause and public health issues.

Her awards include CBE in 2016, Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Bradford (2016) and Nottingham (2017), UN African Women of Excellence Award 2015, and long service award for over 30 years’ commitment to the NHS.

Cecilia was elected as President in 2015 and re-elected in 2017. The RCN is the voice of nursing across the UK and the largest professional union of nursing staff in the world.

Join us to be part of a conversation with Helena exploring the challenges she has faced and the potential for the next big breakthrough towards a more diverse workplace for all of us.