07.02.13

The Future of Money

Detlev Schlichter - Economist and author of Paper Money Collapse – The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown



Tarek El Diwany - writer and consultant in Islamic banking and finance and a senior partner at Zest Advisory LLP



Amir Taaki - Bitcoin project developer and Chairman of the Bitcoin Consultancy







10.03.11

Infrastructural Development: A case for an increase in project finance in sub-Saharan Africa

Prof. Geoff Haley, founder and Chairman of the International Project Finance Association (IPFA), honorary professor and visiting lecturer to the University of Dundee. He has specialist expertise in large projects in transportation, healthcare and education. Some of his projects include the Channel Tunnel and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. According to the general media consensus, he is one of the most respected voices in Project Finance and Public Private Partnerships.





21.10.10

"Winning change: the role of the social justice movement yesterday, today and tomorrow"

Michael Albert is an American activist, speaker, and writer. From an early involvement in the social movements of the 1960's, he has become an influential figure in progressive activism today. He is co-editor and co-founder of Zcommunications, including Z magazine and Znet, an alternative media and networking site with hundreds of thousands of weekly readers. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. Along with Robin Hahnel he developed an alternative economic vision called participatory economics.





21.04.10

World Politics: The Israeli Perspective

Ran Gidor - Israeli Embassy's Political Counsellor. As the Embassy's third in command, Mr. Gidor will have full mandate to provide the official political stance of the state of Israel.



Before commencing his diplomatic mission in the Israeli Embassy in August 2007, Mr. Gidor was in charge of the UK and Ireland Desk at the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. He was Cultural Attaché in the Israeli Embassy in Beijing, and served as the Deputy Ambassador in the Israeli Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. Before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was a Lawyer in the areas of Criminal Law and Legislation. He obtained a BA and an MA in Law Studies from Cambridge University and an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania.



Guest Interviewer: Tim Llewellyn - Former BBC Middle-East Correspondent.



Tim Llewellyn was the BBC's Middle East Correspondent from 1976-80 and from 1987-92, based in Beirut and Nicosia, and has since been a freelance writer and broadcaster on Middle East affairs. He has covered, inter alia, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, the first Gulf War, the Lebanese Civil War and the continuing Palestinian crisis in all its aspects.





09.03.10

History & Politics: African Development

Brigadier General Frank Rusagara - Author and Defense Attache, Rwandan Embassy, London; Chairman of both the Rwandan Centre for Strategic Studies and African Centre for Strategic studies, Rwandan Chapter; Former President of the Rwanda Military Court and Commandant of the Rwanda Military Academy, Nyakinama



Zain Latif - Founder and Principle of TLG Capital, London; Formerly the youngest VP of Merrill Lynch; Former Executive Director of Goldman Sachs





26.01.10

Science & Society: Drugs, Politics and Policy

Professor David Nutt - Professor David Nutt was dismissed as the government’s chief drug adviser last year, after stating that the use of certain illegal drugs - such as LSD, ecstasy and cannabis - is statistically less harmful than alcohol and tobacco. The resignation of several members of the advisory board followed, in the controversy over "the line between science and policy".



Guest Interviewer: Dr Stephen Webster -head of Science Communication Group at Imperial College. science-writer and a prize-winning playwright.





26.11.09

Ethics & Religion: Can you be good without God?

Adam Deen - Renowned Intellectual Activist and Muslim Apologist



Dan Barker - Author and former ordained minister turned atheist; Co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation







29.10.09

Chomsky: Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework.

Prof. Noam Chomsky - Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at MIT; world renowned author and leading intellectual

Tariq Ali - Historian, Author and well known political commentator





26.03.09

Religion, Politics & Law (Religion & Politics Series)

Dr Patrick Riordan - Assistant Director of Heythrop Institute; Researcher and Lecturer in Religion & Politics

Professor Mashood Baderin - Professor of Law at SOAS, Specialist in International and Comparative Human Rights Law & Islamic Law





02.03.09

Sri Lanka: A Forgotten Conflict

Bruce Fein - Specialist in International and Constitutional Law. He served as Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan and was a member of the ABA Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements





23.02.09

Alastair Crooke on Resistance, Revolution & Islam (Religion & Politics Series)

Alastair Crooke - Founder of Conflicts Forum, former Special Middle-East Adviser to the European Union High Representative, Staff member of President





28.01.09

Mumbai: India's 9/11? (Emerging Economies Series)

Vijay Rana - Editor of BBC Hindi Service; Editor of NRI radio

Dr. Gareth Price - Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House; Expert in Indian & Pakistani Relations





22.01.09

Israel or Hamas: Who is the aggressor?

Chris Doyle - Director, Council for Arab and British Understanding (CAABU)

Eric Lee - Founding Editor of LabourStart & The New International Review

Husam Zomlot - Senior Political Advisor for the Palestinian Diplomatic Mission to the UK





09.12.08

Latin America (Emerging Economies Series)

Prof. George Philip - Professor and Reader in Latin American Politics at LSE, Specialist in Venezuela

Dr. Colin Lewis - Reader in Latin American Economic History at LSE, Specialist in Brazil and Social Policy





01.12.08

China (Emerging Economies Series)

Dr. James Reilley - Department of Politics & International Relations and History Faculty, Oxford University and Georgetown University, USA

Dr. Kerry Brown - Senior Fellow, Asia Programme at Chatham House. Lecturer, Writer and Consultant on China

Hugo De-Burgh - Author of 'China: Friend or Foe?'; Professor of Journalism & Director of the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster





25.04.08

The Case for Criminalising War

Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad - Prime Minister of Malaysia 1981-2003; Chairman of Perdana Global Peace Organization





06.03.08

Genocide Intervention/Prevention (Genocide Awareness Week)

Dr. James Smith - CEO of the Aegis Trust; Founder of Kigali Memorial Centre; Special Interest in Genocide Prevention

Dr. Nigel Eltringham - Lecturer in Anthropology; University of Sussex; Author of 'Accounting for horror: Post-Genocide debates in Rwanda

John Gorski - British Army Royal Engineers; Served in Balkans and East Africa

Hratche Koundarjian - Co-ordinator of the 'All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Genocide Prevention





04.03.08

Darfur (Genocide Awareness Week)

"A first hand account on Darfur" from a survivor

Jonathan Bower - Aegis Trust UK National Coordinator

Dr. Richard Barltrop - The Sudan Programme, St. Antonys College, Oxford University





03.03.08

Europe (Genocide Awareness Week)

Ruth Barnett - "Eight Stages of Genocide"; Holocaust Survival; Special interest in the Armenian Genocide

Michael Etherton - Festical Producer, UK Jewish Film Festival; "Silence - Orly Yadin" "Srebenica - post-genocide"

Students from ICAB (Imperial College Aid to the Balkans)





08.02.08

Somalia/Ethiopia (Conflict Case Study Week)

Sally Healy OBE - Chatham House Associate Fellow, Africa Programme

Dr. Mohamed Omar - Lecturer, ULU Institute of Education





07.02.08

Kashmir (Conflict Case Study Week)

Muzzammil Thakur - World Kashmir Freedom Movement

Yasir Shawl - Justice Foundation





05.02.08

Israel/Palestine (Conflict Case Study Week)

Robin Kealy - Former Consulate General to Jerusalem

Prof. David Newman - Professor of Political Geography at Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Ghada Karmi - Research Fellow and Lecturer, IAIS; University of Exeter



