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As Christine Lagarde pointed out, one of the greatest threats to global stability is the ever widening income gap between rich and poor. Oxfam highlighted the issue in dramatic terms at Davos with the bus load of billionaires having the same wealth as 50% of the world's population. Is voluntary philanthropy the silver bullet to the growing income inequality crisis or is philanthropy letting the state off the hook? Hear from a panel who each, in their way, are on the frontline of philanthropy . Recorded live at Editorial Intelligence’s annual ideas festival Names Not Numbers.


 

Chair: Giles Gibbons, CEO and Founder, Good Business
Panel: Joe Cerrell, Managing Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Ben Elliot, Founder, Quintessentially Foundation
Catherine Mayer, Editor at Large, TIME
Lady Catherine Meyer CBE, CEO, Parents & Abducted Children Together (PACT)

Chair: Dr Anthony Seldon, Master, Wellington Collage
Panel:Sir Martin Davidson KCMG, Chief Executive, British Council London
Harvey Goldsmith, Managing Director, Artist Promotion Management

 

Isabel Hilton, Editor, China Dialogue
Matthew Kirk, Group External Affairs Director, Vodafone

Military adventurism has given way to a more cautious approach to international relations, with a much greater reliance on diplomacy and politics. In the era of retrenchment, has diplomacy become a mere charade? And how has the digital 24 hour news age and rise of social media affected the practice of diplomacy?  Recorded live at Editorial Intelligence’s annual ideas festival Names Not Numbers.

Chair: Toby Mundy, Chief Executive and Publisher, Atlantic Books
Panel: Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent and Anchor, CNN
Susan Gibson, Board Member, International Rescue Committee UK
Rear Admiral Chris Parry CBE, Security Expert and Strategic Forecaster 
James Rubin, Visiting Scholar, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford

 

 

Is there a difference between faith and belief? And where does ‘mind’ come into it? Do we need faith in order to compose a moral code or do religions simply codify the “do-as-you-would-be-done-by” rule which underpins human and social relationships. Does organised religion do more good than harm and should it stay out of politics? Recorded live at Editorial Intelligence’s annual ideas festival Names Not Numbers.

Chair: Mary Ann Sieghart, Writer and Broadcaster
Panel: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Columnist and Broadcaster
Stephen Grosz, Psychoanalyst and Author
Tim Montgomerie, Comment Editor, The Times
Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue

 

 

Highlights from the 2014 Names Not Numbers; this year examining 'What Matters most to Individuals in a Mass Age'. Hear from one of the world's greatest writers Margaret Atwood, CNN's Chief Anchor Christiane Amanpour, Celebrity Journalists Paul Mason, AA Gill & Rachel Johnson. Listen to eclectic sessions and diverse subject matters, from capitalism, genomics and front line reporting, to food, boyfriends and why rock music is the ultimate Soft Power weapon. 

Damien Barr, salonnière and author of ‘Maggie and Me’ hosts a retrospective look at the 80s. Hear personal confessions, memories and insights from Dylan Jones on the significance of Live Aid from his book, ‘The Eighties: One Day, One Decade’, Rachel Johnson on boyfriends and editing the infamous ‘The Oxford Myth’; and hear from Peter York – the social and cultural commentator of the 80s. Recorded live at Editorial Intelligence’s annual ideas festival Names Not Numbers.

Chair: Damian Barr, Writer & Salonniѐre

Panel: Rachel Johnson, Author and Columnist, Mail on Sunday
Dylan Jones OBE, Editor, British GQ 
Peter York, Cultural Commentator and Associate, Editorial Intelligence