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- E12: Joseph NyeJoseph Nye is a political scientist and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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27 min - E11: Baroness Catherine AshtonBaroness Catherine Ashton is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.
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44 min - E10: Bill Browder
Bill Browder is an American-born English financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which at a time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.
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40 min - E9: James VitaliJames Vitali is a Conservative Party councillor and head of Political Economy at the UK’s leading think tank, Policy Exchange.
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34 min - E8: Matthew Ridley
Matthew Ridley is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics, and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper.
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40 min - E7: Jeremy BlackJeremy Black MBE is a British historian, writer, and former professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
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46 min - E6: Parag KhannaParag Khanna is an Indian-American specialist in geopolitics and globalization. He is the managing partner of FutureMap, and former managing partner of Hybrid Reality as well as Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum.
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45 min - E5: Sir Ferdinand MountSir Ferdinand Mount is a British writer and political commentator who is a regular columnist for The Sunday Times.
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48 min - E4: Jesse Norman
Jesse Norman is a British Conservative Party politician who, since 2010, has been MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire.
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46 min - E3: Lord SkidelskyRt Hon The Lord Robert Skidelsky is a British economic historian and Member of the House of Lords.
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About Powerful Undercurrents
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At a time of great world turmoil and danger, a podcast series of truly profound conversations with twelve leading minds from across the world dares to reach far deeper than most into the…
philosophies, contradictions, errors and delusions of the age, and pulls together new strands of hope, amidst the current universal pessimism, gloom and general distrust of all by all. These are the trends which will have far more impact on our lives than any national government of any colour.
· Are our democratic processes being fundamentally weakened by communications technology? Can our nation states hold together? Will the centre hold against polarised division , extremism and abuse? Can democratic capitalism be made to work for everyone?
· Have the international rules-based order, and its supporting institutions, broken down, and what repairs or replaces it?
· Has democracy of the old kind peaked and will the authoritarian methods and illiberal standards of bogus democracy prevail?
· Just where are the new paths of hope and optimism and how do we find and follow them? Can the tide be turned?
First Series Contributors; Baroness Onora O’Neill, Justice Stephen Breyer, Jesse Norman, Lord Robert Skidelsky, Bill Browder, Professor Joe Nye, Matt Ridley, Baroness Cathy Ashton, Sir Ferdinand Mount, Professor Jeremy Black, Professor Parag Khanna, James Vitali. More to come. All in conversation with David Howell.
All enquiries to: [email protected].
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