In both the US and UK last year, voters voiced anxiety over demographic and economic shifts. Campaigns against the status quo on both the left and the right swept some of the world’s most prosperous nations, calling into question the strength of the social fabric that binds them. We’ll dive into the historical context, the economic drivers, and consider where governments have blind spots when it comes to the needs of certain groups. We’ll ask how we might constructively address the politics of “the elite” vs. “the ignored” and start working together toward a system that works for us all.
Founder and co-creator, New Constellations, Crisis Action
Gemma is an award-winning thinker and practitioner in transformative, systemic change. She is founder and co-creator of New Constellations, which exists to help people envision and create futures of human and planetary flourishing. New Constellations creates immersive experiences for diverse groups to explore transformation in specific places, specific systems and for their own personal leadership. She is a co-founder and chair of More In Common and sits on the advisory council of Yale University’s International Leadership Centre. She was previously Chief Global Officer at Change.org and CEO of Crisis Action – an organisation that won the MacArthur Award and Skoll Award for its innovative systems model.
Former President of Mexico who led profound democratic and social reforms; a renowned economist; and an advocate of multilateralism, inclusive globalisation, nuclear nonproliferation, drug policy reform and universal healthcare.
• President of Mexico, 1994-2000
• Recipient of the Franklin D Roosevelt Freedom from Fear Award, 2002
• Member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, 2005-2008
• Chairman of the Global Development Network, 2005-2011
• Commissioner on the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, 2009
• Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2009 –
• Joined The Elders, 2013
• Member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, 2020 –
"Inclusive globalisation is needed not only by the weak but also by the strong; not only to defeat economic polarisation but also to alleviate old and new resentments that threaten the security of our world." – President Ernesto Zedillo
Deep Listening - Senior Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
Emily Kasriel is writing a book on Deep Listening, developing the approach as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College in London and previously as a Practitioner in Residence at the LSE. With the British Council and the BBC, she recruited 1000 people in 119 countries to train in Deep Listening and trains cohorts of leaders with the UK’s Forward Institute for responsible leadership. She is a journalist and has been a media executive at the BBC for many years, leading multiple high impact global projects as well as producing and reporting from five continents. Previously she has been a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has written for a number of major publications and chairs a wide range of panels, and hosts interviews. More on her website EmilyKasriel.com
Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009-2011 she served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School) from 2002–2009 and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School from 1994-2002. She has written or edited seven books, including “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World”, “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family”, and “The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World. She is also a frequent contributor to a number of publications, including The Atlantic, the Financial Times, and Project Syndicate. In 2012, she published “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” in The Atlantic, which quickly became one of the most read articles in the history of the magazine and helped spark a renewed national debate on the continued obstacles to genuine full male-female equality. She is married to Professor Andrew Moravcsik; they have two sons.
