TransformingFinance
29th April 2016Speakers
Adair Turner has been a Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking since 2013, and in 2015 became Chairman of the Institute’s Governing Body. Prior to that he chaired the UK Financial Services Authority from 2008 until 2013, during which time he played a leading role in the redesign of the global banking and shadow banking regulation as Chairman of the International Financial Stability Board’s major policy committee.
In his new book, Between Debt and the Devil, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t happen because banks are too big to fail — our addiction to private debt is to blame.
Professor Mariana Mazzucato holds the RM Phillips chair in the Economics of Innovation at SPRU in the University of Sussex. She has held academic positions at the University of Denver, London Business School, Open University, and Bocconi University.
Her recent book The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (Anthem, 2013) was on the 2013 Books of the Year list of the Financial Times. It focuses on the need to develop new frameworks to understand the role of the state in economic growth — and how to enable rewards from innovation to be just as ‘social’ as the risks taken.
Zoe Williams is a columnist for the Guardian, Spectator and New Statesman. She is most well known for her political and cultural commentary, including regular writing on housing and finance.
Matthew Taylor became Chief Executive of the RSA in November 2006. Prior to this, he was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister. He was the Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research between 1999 and 2003.
He has written numerous articles and is a regular panelist on Radio 4’s Moral Maze, a provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week’s news stories.
Other confirmed speakers include:
Fran Boait – Executive Director, Positive Money
Chris Hewett – Head of Advocate Programme, Finance Innovation Lab
Catherine Howarth – Chief Executive, ShareAction
Anna Laycock – Lead Strategist, Finance Innovation Lab
Paul Nowak – Deputy General Secretary, TUC
Josh Ryan-Collins – Associate Director, Economy and Finance, New Economics Foundation
Beth Stratford – PhD researcher, Roehampton University
Benoit Lallemand – Head of Strategic Development and Operations, Finance Watch
Ingrid Holmes – Director, E3G
Heather Buchanan – Fair Business Banking
Paul Marston – Head of Commercial Finance, Ratesetter
Toby Lloyd – Head of Policy, Shelter UK
Baroness Kramer – Liberal Democrat politician