The McKay Interview

This is the second in the mini-series,  recorded on the 22nd April, and devoted to a broader and fuller  understanding of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic which has beset us  all for the past few months.

Michael McKay speaks to someone with hard and proven experience in  another country that had been affected quite seriously by the SARS  epidemic some 17 years ago. Mario Possamai, who, by profession, is a  forensic investigator, and author. And was Senior Adviser for 4 years  for Occupational Health & Safety and Pandemic Planning on the  Canada’s SARS Commission. That was the judicial inquiry into the  outbreak of SARS in 2003. It was styled as the first major epidemic of  the 21st century and, ominously, a dress rehearsal for the COVID-19  pandemic. Mario was the Commission’s chief investigator into death and  illness among health care workers, who comprised about half of all SARS  victims in Canada.

In this new COVID-19 series of McKay  Interviews, Michael will be asking different experts their views on the  pandemic and how it will develop - and ultimately defeated. This week,  Michael is speaking to Bob Bishop. He has been on the show before. He is  the Founder & President of the International Centre for Earth  Simulation Foundation, ICES, and a former Chairman & CEO of Silicon  Graphics, Inc., once a Fortune 500 company but now absorbed by Hewlett  Packard Enterprise. Bob holds degrees in Mathematical Physics from the  University of Adelaide and New York University, and is a Doctor of  Science from the University of Queensland.

In 2006, he was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal  for his role in building simulation facilities that helped NASA’s space  shuttle fleet return-to-flight after the 2003 Columbia disaster.

David Bennett, Global Chairman of Sotheby’s Jewellery Division. 9th September 2019

Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley CH, British information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist. 30th July 2018.

Mary Robinson, former President of the Republic of Ireland; former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Founder of The Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. 27th October 2017.

Sir Peter Marshall KCMG CVO, Veteran British Diplomat and formerly UK Ambassador & Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva. 2nd August 2017.

Kate Adie OBE DL, BBC Chief News Correspondent, 1989 – 2003. 1st February 2016

Konji Sebati, the Republic of South Africa’s former Ambassador to Switzerland & Liechtenstein, the Holy See, France, UNESCO and the OECD. This interview is the first in a mini-series of six based loosely on Winston Churchill’s “A History of the English-speaking Peoples”.

Ivan Pictet - on the modern significance of the 200th anniversary of La Restauration genevoise 1814 – 2014 and Geneva joining the Swiss Confederation

Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, Vice-Chairwoman of Edmond de Rothschild Group. 19th February 2014.