The McKay Interview

By Michael McKay

Michael McKay conducts in depth interviews with decision makers and local leaders.

The McKay Interview was founded on a simple idea: that listeners would tune in regularly to listen to intelligent ye... more

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The podcast currently has 138 episodes available.

The McKay Interview episodes:

October 10, 2022 Reflections on the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II - Four, Commonwealth friends with Canada, India, Jamaica and the U.K.
Personal reflections on the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II with four, Commonwealth friends from Canada, India, Jamaica and the U.K.
Some of the questions asked are:
-What did the Queen mean to you?
-Why Canada has not become a republic?
-How is the British monarchy viewed by present-day Jamaicans?
-India's attitude to the British monarchy and the Commonwealth.
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30min
September 26, 2022 Dr. Mukesh Kapila CBE, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, 2003-2004
The man who blew the whistle on the United Nations' negligence in the face of the genocide in Darfur.
In this episode we discuss:
-Why do some men and women at the top of organizations created to do good sometimes choose to look the other way when wrong is being committed?
-Has the time of consensus-building in terms of human suffering and humanitarian affairs passed?
-Why should ordinary people care about corruption inside a certain UN Organization based in Geneva?
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29min
September 16, 2022 Professor Yves Flueckiger, Rector of the University of Geneva, President of swissuniversities and President of League of European Research Universities
Professor Flueckiger and I discuss Swiss tertiary education, research, innovation and Horizon Europe, Switzerland being excluded from this important EU organisation, at least for the time being.
In this episode we discuss:
-How confident he feels about a successful outcome to getting Switzerland readmitted to Horizon Europe.

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31min
July 19, 2022 Ambassador Simon Manley CMG, United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations & other International Organizations in Geneva
The UK's big and current issues at the UN Geneva plus insights into the current status of the UK/EU relationship.
In this episode we discuss:
-Is multilateralism now dead?
-How much of a distraction are the current upheavals at 10 Downing Street?
-Has the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia caused the first paradigm shift in international relations since the peace of 1945?

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27min
July 07, 2022 Dan Basse, President of AgResource Company, Chicago
Dan Basse is an acknowledged expert economist on grains, softs and food supply; and he is also a farmer.
In this episode we discuss:
-We discuss the current status of grain crops and global supply
-Crop yields
-The effects of the war in Ukraine
-China's importance in both the demand and supply of grain
-Climate change.
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28min
June 30, 2022 David Willey OBE, papal biographer and former BBC Rome Correspondent
A sequel to my "McKay Interview" with David Willey in 2013 about prominent issues in the Vatican. We pick up our conversation from 9 years ago and talk about many things, including:
-David Willey's Italian grandparents, the present crises in the Vatican
-The difference that the first ever Jesuit Pope has made
-The state of Pope Francis’s health
-The speculative prospect of three Popes in the Vatican at the same time, as Pope Emeritus Benedict lives, a mere 500 metres away, almost on the Pontiff’s doorstep,
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36min
June 21, 2022 Christoph Maeder, President of economiesuisse, Switzerland's premier business organisation.
An overview of the current state of the Swiss economy and Swiss business.
In this episode we discuss:
-The recurring problem of a strong, safe-haven currency, namely the Swiss Franc
-The increasing cost of living in Switzerland
-The present impasse between Switzerland and the European Union.
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30min
June 04, 2022 Debora MacKenzie, acclaimed science writer and journalist on emerging diseases and one of the first to suggest that it could become a pandemic.
In this episode we discuss Covid19: where it came from, what the current status of the pandemic is, and what the future holds.
In this episode we cover the following topics:
Debora MacKenzie tells me her views on Wuhan and the way the Chinese handled the outbreak. We also talk about the so-called "Swedish" model; and many other things relating to Covid19 and pandemics in general.
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26min
May 22, 2022 General Sir Richard Shirreff, former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
In this epsiode, General Sir Richard Shirreff, talks about the war in Ukraine.
We cover the following topics:
-Who is wining the war in Ukraine
-Why writers like Clausewitz and Sun Tzu are still relevant and the risk of war between nuclear powers
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33min
May 15, 2022 Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
In this epsiode Martin Chungong talks about the GESDA Science Diplomacy Week Open Forum and his role as Geneva Coalition co-Chair.
We cover the following topics:
-What is GESDA?
-Why the coupling of Science and Diplomacy?
-Who is involved?
-And how will objectives be achieved?
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33min

FAQs about The McKay Interview:

How many episodes does The McKay Interview have?

The podcast currently has 138 episodes available.