Whitehall Group
The Whitehall Group, a forum of CULS is a high level, influential policy discussion forum of well-connected Cambridge alumni, who are mainly members of the Cambridge University Land Society. It pulls together a previous legacy of high quality events over the last decade which is outside the mainstream of CULS activities. The Whitehall Group operates through a series of focused lunches and dinners for up to 25 attendees per meeting in order to maintain an exclusive, intimate and senior level gathering under the Chatham House Rule. The Whitehall Group also runs a distinguished series of policy lectures – The Whitehall Lectures. This series was inaugurated by Professor Sir Malcolm Grant CBE at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in March 2014.
Whitehall Group events cover a wide range of macro-economic business, social and educational issues of the day – The Economy, Foreign Affairs, Social and Health Policies, Infrastructure, Transport, Energy, Climate Change, Finance and Investment, Environment, Housing, Technology, Real Estate Investment and Finance, Urban Planning, Education and Politics.
For further information please contact the Group Secretary at: fionajones.wg@culandsoc.com.
Whitehall Group Events Diary (from January 2025)
Whitehall Group lunch – Wednesday, 15th January, 2025
Speaker: Professor Guy Standing FAcSS
Subject: “The Politics of Time: The Precariat in the Trump Era”
Whitehall Group lunch – Wednesday, 26th February, 2025
Speaker: Professor Michael Cox, Founding Director, LSE IDEAS
Subject: ‘The Strange Case of the American Empire: From Clinton to Trump’
Whitehall Group lunch – Thursday, 20th March 2025 (12.30 – 2.30pm)
Speaker: Dr. Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Centre for Climate Repair / Director of Research, Cambridge Zero, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Subject: ‘Can we freeze the Arctic?’
Whitehall Group lunch – Wednesday, 9th April 2025 (12.30 – 2.30pm) Speaker: Andrew Carter, Chief Executive, Centre for Cities Subject: National policy challenges that affect the UK’s largest cities and towns / the work of the Centre for Cities
Whitehall Group lunch – May 2025 tbc
Speaker: Professor The Lord Skidelsky, House of Lords and British economics historian
Subject: ‘The Machine Age’