List of 2023 past briefings
Ignacio Garcia Bercero, Director Multilateral Trade Policy, Strategy and Economic Analysis, European Commission:
"EU Trade - Policy, Priorities and Progress"
Brian McBride, President CBI:
"Is it time to plan for a Labour Government?"
Lord Grimstone of Boscobel, former Minister for Investment (DIT & BEIS):
“All that glitters is not gold – the UK and China going forward”
Sir James Bevan KCMG, Chief Executive, Environment Agency:
“Red Tape or Green Growth? The future for environmental regulation”
HE Mr Simon Manley CMG, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, UK Mission to the WTO, UN and Other International Organisations (Geneva):
“Beyond the Jet d'Eau: why multilateral Geneva matters to Britain”
Cathryn Ross, Strategy and Regulatory Affairs Director at Thames Water:
“Water, environment and climate change: policy, regulatory and technology implications”
Professor Christopher Hodges OBE, Chair of the Regulatory Horizons Council:
“Regulation for new and emerging technologies”
Adam Boulton, Journalist and Broadcaster:
“Five things (or people) to look out for in the next five years”
Charles Grant CMG, Director of the Centre for European Reform:
“What future for the EU?”
Mark Hughes, President, DXC Technology:
“Cyber Resilience: threat trends and recovery priorities for public and private organisations"
HE Dame Menna Rawlings DCMG, the UK’s Ambassador to France:
“UK and France - Entente Renouvelée?”
HE Mr Alex Ellis CMG, British High Commissioner to India:
“Update on UK/India and the G20 Presidency”
Lord Turner, Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission:
“Achieving net zero emissions: Technology, Policy and Investment needs”
Jonathan Black, Heywood Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government and formerly the UK’s G7 and G20 Sherpa:
“How business and government navigate geopolitical risk together”
Matthew Palmer, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in London:
“The practice of diplomacy in a rapidly changing world”
Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, Patient Safety Commissioner for England:
“How patients can help fix the NHS”
Gareth Davies CB, Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business and Trade:
“Post-pandemic growth strategy and progress”
HE Mr Martin Fraser, Ambassador of Ireland to the United Kingdom:
“Building on the momentum of the Windsor Framework”
The Rt Hon Jeremy Quin MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office:
“The public sector productivity challenge: driving innovation and modernisation”
Sarah Olney MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Treasury and Business:
“Reflections on the recent Lib Dem Party Conference and the priorities in 2024”
Fleur Anderson MP, Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland and until recently Shadow Paymaster General:
“Labour Party Conference review and priorities for 2024”
Duncan Edwards, Chief Executive of British American Business:
“The state of transatlantic trade and politics”
Professor Anand Menon, Director UK in a Changing Europe:
“UK in a changing Europe”
Sir John Armitt CBE FREng FICE FCGI, Chairman, National Infrastructure Commission, and James Heath, CEO, National Infrastructure Commission:
“Developing a long-term plan for economic infrastructure: the second National Infrastructure Assessment”
Malcolm Harbour CBE, Associate Director, Connected Places Catapult, and former MEP and chair of the European Parliament Single Market Committee:
“Public Procurement Reform to Empower Innovation and Enterprise”
Dr Angus Lapsley, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning:
“NATO’s place in an era of global great power competition”
Lionel Barber, Author of The Powerful and The Damned and Editor of the Financial Times 2005 to 2020:
“What A Year In Review”
Claire O’Neill, Chair of the Advisory Board of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and former Minister for Energy and Clean Growth:
“Do COPs matter?”