Full Circle IDEAS

Jimmy Nelson has embarked on a trek across the globe and has vividly documented some of the world’s indigenous people, before they pass away. Jimmy’s work is an ode to exceptional communities, thriving through time, resilient through hardship, and ever changing in their ‘authenticity’.

Tristram Stuart is renown internationally to have unveiled the extensive scale of food waste worldwide, but also how to address it. Check out his Full Circle talk and find out more about the food revolution!

As part of our Talking Heads series, Professor Linda Colley, eminent historian of Britain, Empire and nationalism, joined us post Scottish referendum to share her thoughts on what it means today to be British and the extent to which the debate in the UK has parallels with debates on national identity in other EU countries.

Classical pianist Daria van den Bercken is famously known for playing the piano en plein air, sharing Händel’s inspiring notes while being towed through the cobbled streets of Amsterdam or while floating in the sky. Her latest ambitious project entails decoding the keys to one of the most celebrated music geniuses: Mozart.

Teddy Goff, digital strategist for the Obama election campaigns (2008 & 2012) joined Full Circle for our first lunch talk

Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs…

Hear about it straight from the source: a man who is ready to take on the global financial industry – single-handed.

Can economics be passionate?… Can it center on people and what really matters to them day-in and day-out.… And help us understand their hidden motives for why they do what they do in everyday life? Uri Gneezy is a revolutionary. His ideas and methods for revealing what really works in addressing big social, business, and economic problems gives us new understanding of the motives underlying human behavior. We can then structure incentives that can get people to move mountains, change their behavior—or at least get a better deal.

Before the first air flight, no one could believe it was even possible. In the next decades, technology will transform our lives and our society far more than we realise.  Will it be for the better? Science journalist & author Mats Lewan has a knack for making complicated stuff easy to grasp and for showing opportunities where fears and doubts seem to reign. The changes ahead remain underestimated and hardly discussed by policy makers and industry leaders today. It’s the biggest shift ever and it’s time to talk about it.

World class economist & social entrepreneur Laurence Brahm talks solutions rather than problems with Fusion Economics – an innovative, far-sighted economic and ecological thinking able to offer concrete answers to the dilemma of our global economic & environmental crisis.

If it takes two to tango, it also takes both women & men to make an equal society. The discussion around gender and gender roles in society is one of the most important currently occurring. Mariella Frostrup, passionate and vocal campaigner for gender’s rights, talks about women and men and why gender stereotypes are so persistent. Can we do any better?