| Can international humanitarian organisations adapt to face the challenges of this century? |
Yves Daccord, former CEO of the International Committee of the Red Cross, joins us at the Oxford Martin School. |
Yves Daccord |
26 April, 2023 |
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| Panel Discussion 'The age of the strongman: populism and authoritarianism in global politics' |
A discussion on leaders and populism with Lord Patten, Gideon Rachman, Margaret MacMillan and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
Lord Patten of Barnes, Gideon Rachman, Margaret MacMillan, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
7 December, 2022 |
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| The state of the African state: Where has it come from and where is it going |
Nick Westcott, Director of the Royal African Society, discusses the African State. |
Nick Westcott, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
7 December, 2022 |
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| Book talk: 'Butler to the world: how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals' |
In this event chaired by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Oliver Bullough discusses his best selling and critically acclaimed book, 'Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals'. |
Oliver Bullough, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
7 December, 2022 |
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| Illicit finance and the role of professional enablers in the United Kingdom: are things finally changing? |
MPs Andrew Mitchell and Margaret Hodge discuss illicit finance and their work on improving regulations. |
Andrew Mitchell, Margaret Hodge, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
21 June, 2022 |
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| Nano comes to life: how nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology |
In this book talk, Professor Sonia Contera will talk about how Nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology. |
Sonia Contera |
6 December, 2019 |
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| Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare |
William bird discusses how healthcare focused on communities and acitve lifestyles can lead to greater wellbeing. |
William Bird |
6 December, 2019 |
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| Psychologically informed micro-targeted political campaigns: the use and abuse of data |
Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a key part of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and whether it is relevant to regulate political candidates' access to data. |
Jens Koed Madsen |
4 December, 2019 |
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| The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation |
Carl Frey discusses his book 'The Technology Trap' |
Carl Benedikt Frey |
4 December, 2019 |
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| Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present |
Robin Cohen discusses migration throughout history and in the present day. |
Robin Cohen |
2 December, 2019 |
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| Ending energy poverty: reframing the poverty discourse |
The President of the Rockefeller Foundation discusses the need for new solutions for energy transformation and economic development. |
Rajiv J. Shah |
27 November, 2019 |
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| New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene |
Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system. |
Eric Beinhocker |
24 June, 2019 |
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| From pollution to solution: will China save the planet? |
Barbara Finamore discusses whether China will take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe. |
Barbara Finamore, Radhika Khosla |
24 June, 2019 |
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| The future of the corporation, economy and society |
Professor Sir Paul Collier and Professor Colin Mayer CBE will share the latest thinking and research into the future of capitalism and the corporation to understand how business might be changed to make it work better for society. |
Colin Mayer, Paul Collier |
19 June, 2019 |
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| Protecting the high seas (Oxford Green Week talk) |
As part of Oxford Green Week, Prof Alex Rogers and Dr Gwilym Rowlands discuss the importance of protecting the high seas, and how marine protection areas can be enforced. |
Alex Rogers, Gwilym Rowlands |
19 June, 2019 |
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| Changing technology, changing economics |
Prof Diane Coyle discusses how digital technologies are changing economics. |
Diane Coyle |
14 June, 2019 |
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| Is the human species slowing down? |
Prof Danny Dorling discusses the idea that that humanity is slowing down in almost everything that we do, and what this means for our future. |
Danny Dorling |
14 June, 2019 |
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| Navigating knowledge: new tools for the journey |
Like the wind, knowledge can be difficult to see or grasp, but if well-harnessed, it can help us do extraordinary things. |
Penny Mealy |
11 June, 2019 |
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| Unlocking digital competition |
Is competition in the digital economy desirable? Does it currently exist? Is it possible? Is there anything policy can do? |
Jason Furman |
11 June, 2019 |
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| From global to local - the relationship between global climate and regional warming |
Professor David Battisti, The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences, will be talking about global climate sensitivity controlling regional warming uncertainty and its role in impacting on human health, particularly heat stress. |
David Battisti |
4 June, 2019 |
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| City region food systems: potential for impacting planetary boundaries and food security |
Dr Mike Hamm will explore the opportunity for regional food systems in-and-around cities for mutual benefit. |
Michael Hamm |
30 May, 2019 |
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| How complexity can resolve the crisis in economics |
Professor Doyne Farmer will discuss the constraints of current economic models and propose complexity economics as a solution. |
J Doyne Farmer |
30 May, 2019 |
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| Africa in transformation: economic development in the age of doubt with Prof Carlos Lopes |
Carlos Lopes will deliver an overview of the critical development issues facing the African continent today. |
Carlos Lopes |
13 May, 2019 |
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| Climate change: what science and the IPCC report has to say |
Nick Eyre and Myles Allen give a talk for the Oxford Martin School on climate change and the IPCC report. |
Myles Allen, Nick Eyre |
18 August, 2015 |
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| Biodiversity and climate change: what happens when we turn up the heat on nature? |
Dr Nathalie Seddon, Director of the Biodiversity Institute, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. |
Nathalie Seddon |
18 August, 2015 |
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| The ‘perfect storm’ revisited: food, energy and water security in the context of climate change |
Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, gives a talk on climate change |
John Beddingham |
18 August, 2015 |
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| Climate change and our oceans |
Professor Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences, and Professor David Marshall, Professor of Physical Oceanography, will explore the role of oceans in climate change. |
Gideon Henderson, David Marshall |
18 August, 2015 |
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| Hopes and fears: why people disagree about how to tackle climate |
In this seminar Dr Rob Bellamy, James Martin Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, will explore how and why people disagree about how to tackle climate change. What hope then is there for a global political agreement in Paris 2015? |
David Marshall |
18 August, 2015 |
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| Climate change: dealing with uncertainty |
In this talk Professor Tim Palmer CBE, Co-Director of the Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. |
Tim Palmer |
18 August, 2015 |
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| Rich and poor: a cause for social unrest? at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015 |
John Kampfner and Katrine Marçal discuss the growing gap between rich and poor and its implications for society, chaired by Professor Ian Goldin. |
John Kampfner, Ian Goldin, Katrine Marcal |
18 August, 2015 |
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| The future of Africa at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015 |
Three authors with recent books on Africa discuss the future of the continent and answer questions from the audience under the watchful eye of the director of the Oxford Martin School, Professor Ian Goldin. |
Martin Meredith, Jonny Steinberg, Tom Burgis |
18 August, 2015 |
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| The limits of human performance and artificial intelligence |
In this new Oxford talk, Garry Kasparov, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology. |
Garry Kasparov |
18 August, 2015 |
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| Philae at the comet: a scientific adventure |
Professor Chris Lintott, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford and presenter of the BBC’s Sky at Night will talk about the history and the science of the voyage. |
Chris Lintott, Ian Goldin |
18 August, 2015 |
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| The metabolism of a human-dominated planet |
Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Oxford Centre ofr Tropical Forests, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. |
Yadvinder Malhi |
18 August, 2015 |
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| Living in a quantum world |
Vlatko Vedral, Co-=Direct oof the Oxford Martin Programme on Bio-Inspired Quantum Technologies, gives a talk for theOxford Martin School. |
Vlatko Vedral |
18 August, 2015 |
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| Quantum life |
Professor Seth Lloyd, Principal Investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. |
Seth Lloyd |
18 August, 2015 |
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| The fight for women's rights: learning from success |
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School on women's rights. |
Helena Kennedy |
24 February, 2015 |
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| Capital failure - restoring trust in the financial system |
Professor David Vines gives a talk onthe financial system. |
David Vines |
17 February, 2015 |
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| Oxford and the next-generation of mobile health |
David Clifton, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, gives a talk for Oxford Martin School. |
David Clifton |
17 February, 2015 |
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| The butterfly defect: how globalization creates systemic risks, and what to do about it |
Professor Ian Goldin gives a talk on globalization and systemic risk. |
Ian Goldin |
17 February, 2015 |
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| Is the Planet Full? |
Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord and Yadvinder Malhi discuss whether the planet is full. |
Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord, Yadvinder Malhi |
17 February, 2015 |
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| Well fed? The health and environmental implications of our food choices |
Mike Rayner, Susan Jebb and Tara Garnett give a talk about food and feeding the population. |
Mike Rayner, Susan Jebb, Tara Garnett |
17 February, 2015 |
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| World population and human capital in the 21st century |
Andrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper and Wolfgang Lutz give a talk about world population. |
Andrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper, Wolfgang Lutz |
17 February, 2015 |
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| Eradicating Hepatitis C and HIV: progress and challenges for the next ten years |
Dr John Frater, Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections and Dr Ellie Barnes, Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections. |
Ellie Barnes, John Frater |
17 February, 2015 |
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| New strategies for disease prevention and management from infancy to old age |
Professor Terry Dwyer, Executive Director, The George Institute for Global Health and Dr Kazem Rahimi, Deputy Director, The George Institute for Global Health. |
Kazem Rahimi, Terry Dwyer |
17 February, 2015 |
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| Why do we need to reconstruct drug discovery? |
Dr Javier Lezaun and Professor Chas Bountra give a talk about drug discovery. |
Chas Bountra, Javier Lezaun |
17 February, 2015 |
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| Strategies for vaccines for the 21st century |
Professor Susan Lea, Professor Christoph Tang, Professor Jeffrey Almond and Dr Ian Feavers discuss strategies for vaccines for the 21st century. |
Susan Lea, Christoph Tang, Jeffrey Almond, Ian Feavers |
17 February, 2015 |
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| Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies |
Professor Bostrom on his book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. |
Nick Bostrom |
17 February, 2015 |
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