Recent Events
WG lunch – Friday, 19th January, 2024 (12.30 – 2.30pm)
Speaker: Professor Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford
Subject: “The argument within the Labour party concerning housing policy – An update of All That is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines our Times, and What We Can Do about it”
WG discussion – Thursday, 29th February, 2024 (6 – 8.30pm)
WG White Paper policy group meeting and drinks reception
Subject: Digitising the NHS – An Action Plan for the Digital Patient
WG Dinner – Thursday, 4th April 2024 (7 – 9.30pm)
Speaker: Professor Lee Elliot Major OBE FAcSS, Professor of Social Mobility, University of Exeter
Subject: “Social and education inequality”
WG Lunch – Thursday, 18th April 2024 (12.30 – 2.30pm)
Speaker: Lady Edwina Grosvenor, English criminologist, philanthropist and prison reformer
Subject: Redesigning Justice
WG Lunch – Thursday, 2nd May 2024 (12.30 – 2.30pm)
Speaker: The Lord Ricketts GCMG GCVO
Subject: “European security and in particular the Israel – Gaza conflict”
WG Lunch – Friday, 7th June 2024 (12.30 – 2.30pm)
Sir Anthony Seldon FRSA FRHistS FKC
British Educator and contemporary historian (former vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham)
Subject: “Why did Liz Truss fail? Will Keir Starmer Succeed?”
WG Lunch – Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (12.30 – 2.30pm)
Speaker: Professor Kerry Brown, Author and Professor or Chinese Studies, King’s College London
Subject: “China Incorporated – the politics of a world where China is number one”
Whitehall Group dinner – Wednesday, 18th September 2024 (7 – 9.30pm)
Speaker: The Lord Bew, House of Lords / A Northern Irish Historian
Subject: “Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Windsor Agreement and the broader post-Brexit Anglo-Irish relationship”
11th Whitehall Group Lecture – Thursday, 24th October, 2024 (6 – 8.30pm)
Speaker: Dr. Gillian Tett OBE, Provost of Kings College / Financial Times Editorial Board Member
Subject: “1919 or 1945? The warnings from Keynes for geopolitics today”
Panel discussion members: Professor Michael Puett – Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University; Professor Patricia Clavin – Professor of Modern History, Oxford University; Sir Laurie Bristow – President, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge; Dr. Gemma Tetlow – Chief Economist IfG (moderator)
Whitehall Group lunch – Wednesday, 27th November, 2024
Speaker: John Myers, Co-founder, Yimby Alliance
Subject: “Planning reform – lessons from around the world”
Whitehall Group Christmas Drinks – Wednesday, 4th December, 2024
RECENT WHITEHALL LECTURE EVENTS:
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11th Whitehall Lecture – Dr. Gillian Tett OBE, Provost, Kings College Cambridge University – “1919 or 1945? The Warnings from Keynes for Geopolitics Today”
Date & Time: October 24, 2024 6:00 pm Venue: Institute for Government The 11th Whitehall Group Lecture will be given by Dr. Gillian Tett OBE, Provost, Kings College Cambridge / Financial Times… Read More
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10th Whitehall Lecture given by Professor Philippe Sands, QC: ‘A Short History of Colonialism, a Modern Crime Against Humanity – Chagos: The Last British Colony in Africa.’
Date & Time: October 27, 2021 6:00 pm Venue: Carter Jonas ‘A book like no other I have ever read – unputdownable and unforgettable’ Orlando Figes on Philippe Sands book ‘East… Read More
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