2020 Speaker

Sue Mitchell is based in the documentary unit at the BBC and recently produced and presented the Radio 4 Podcast, Girl Taken, which tracks a refugee journey across thousands of miles as a mother searches for her missing daughter. The series has attracted widespread coverage internationally and has helped highlight important issues about the experience of women and the struggle to get their experiences raised on the international stage.

Born and raised in South East London, Stee Moglie is a 24 year old singer, rap artist and song writer who isn’t afraid to keep an English accent in her music. She is an up and coming, multi-genre artist who uses her uniqueness to her advantage!

Siegfried Wagner is a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellow and ophthalmologist based at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital. Inspired as a medical student by the role of eye exams in diagnosing people with HIV and Tuberculosis in South Africa, Siegfried uses statistical modelling and artificial intelligence techniques to understand how changes in our eyes can represent overall health, from heart disease to dementia.

Sarah Ellis is an award-winning producer currently working as Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company to explore new artistic initiatives and partnerships. In 2017, she became a fellow of the University of Worcester for her work in the arts and technology. In 2016 she was awarded The Hospital Club & Creatives Industries award for cross industry collaboration for her work on the RSC’s The Tempest in collaboration with Intel and in association with The Imaginarium Studios.

Oliver Double is Reader in Drama at the University of Kent. Before becoming an academic he worked as a stand-up comedian on the national comedy circuit, and set up the Last Laugh, Sheffield’s longest running comedy club. He continues to perform occasionally, and also as compere of the Funny Rabbit Comedy Club. He has written a number of books, and helped to establish the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive, based at Kent’s Templeman Library. He presents a podcast about this archive, called A History of Comedy in Several Objects. His latest book Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up was published 2020.

Giri Kesavan is a current MBA student at London Business School. With a background in engineering, finance & technology, Giri is particularly interested in the intersection of business and technology and works with The Wheeler Institute for Business & Development. With interests in microfinance and business development in emerging economics, Giri will talk about how complex socio-economic problems can be mitigated by startlingly simple solutions.

Ganda Boys bring a fresh light to joyous African songs & chants, with sprinklings of English lyrics by band member/lyricist, Craig Pruess.

From Uganda, lead singers Denis Mugagga and Daniel Sewagudde are internationally recognised, with 21 GRAMMY artists joining their song “The Forgotten People” in Studio City, Los Angeles.

Stevie Wonder is a fan of the Ganda Boys, appearing in public with the band during 2019 to support their work.

Catherine Loveday is a graduate of the University of Westminster (formerly PCL). She began her career with a PhD in the neuropsychology of memory and ageing, supervised by Alan Parkin (University of Sussex) & Brenda Walter (University of Westminster) and continues to focus on the nature of normal and impaired memory. Catherine is an active member of the BPS, as Chair of the Psychologist Digest Editorial Advisory Committee and a member of the Research Board. She has a passion for public engagement with science and is regularly invited to give public lectures at festivals, community events and in schools. Catherine is author of “The Secret World of the Brain” and frequently appears as an expert psychologist on BBC Radio 4’s All In The MInd, as well as many other radio and television programmes.

Arthur Snell worked in Britain’s foreign service from 1998 to 2014. His career took him to Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other places. From 2010 to 2014 he was Britain’s High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago. Since 2014, Arthur has worked as an advisor on international politics and security to a range of corporations, institutions and governments. He is writing a book on Britain and the breakdown of the global order.

Julia Ebner is the author of the bestselling books Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists and The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where she leads projects on online radicalisation, disinformation and hate speech. Julia has acted as a consultant for the UN, NATO, and the World Bank. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, Independent, Prospect and Newsweek, and she was a key contributor to a documentary for ITV on militant responses to Brexit, and a Radio 4 piece on women in the far right.