11th Whitehall Lecture Dr. Gillian Tett OBE, Provost, Kings College Cambridge University – “1919 or 1945? The Warnings from Keynes for Geopolitics Today”
The 11th Whitehall Group Lecture will be given by Dr. Gillian Tett OBE, Provost, Kings College Cambridge / Financial Times Editorial Board member on Thursday, 24thOctober, 2024 at 6pm.
The lecture entitled “1919 or 1945? The Warnings from Keynes for Geopolitics Today” will be followed by a Panel Discussion and a drinks reception.
Dr. Gillian Tett OBE
Provost of Kings College, Cambridge University in the UK; columnist and editorial board member for the Financial Times; former FT Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, US
Gillian Tett has been writing weekly columns for many years, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues, and co-founded FT Moral Money, a sustainability newsletter. Tett was the FT’s US managing editor from 2013 to 2019. She was named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009), Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in British Press awards and won three American SABEW awards. She is also an award-winning and best-selling author of Anthro-Vision, A New Way to See Life and Business (2021), The Silo Effect (2015); Fool’s Gold (2009) and Saving the Sun (2003).
Gillian has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union, and has been decorated for her work promoting social science.
Panellists:
Professor Michael Puett
The Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology and the Director of the Asia Centre at Harvard University.
Professor Puett’s interests are focused on the inter-relations between history, anthropology, religion, and philosophy, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, as well as the co-author, with Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, and Bennett Simon, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity.
Amongst his many appointments globally, he was Beaufort Visiting Scholar St John’s College Cambridge University in 2018 and Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Cambridge University. Tim Dowling, reviewing his book ‘The Path’ in The Guardian wrote “Can Harvard’s most popular professor (and Confucius) radically change your life? – Michael Puett’s book The Path draws on the 2,500-year-old insights of Chinese philosophers.”
Professor Patricia Clavin
Professor of Modern History, Worcester College
Professor Clavin’s work centres on the history of Europe’s transnational and international relations from 1850. She is especially interested in the relationship between states, civil society and markets, nationally and internationally. Her work has led her to write on the history of Europe in the Great Depression; the origins and outcomes of the two world wars; transnational methodologies; the international history of law, and the League of Nations and United Nations. Clavin is current writing a book on the history of ‘human security’ in Europe (which includes Britain). It recovers how notions of security concerned the habitability of the environment, the stability of the capitalist order, and the ‘intactness’ of the human body. Professor Clavin is published widely and co-edited ‘Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace after 100 Years’ published by Cambridge University Press.
Sir Laurie Bristow
President, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
Sir Laurie was her Majesty’s Ambassador to Afghanistan from June to November 2021 during the fall of the Republic to the Taliban in August 2021 and the UK’s subsequent evacuation of over 15,000 people from Kabul airport. Prior to this, Sir Laurie Bristow was the COP26 Regional Ambassador to the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia. Previously Sir Laurie was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation, from January 2016 until January 2020 and Deputy Ambassador to Russia from 2007 to 2010. He was Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2004 to 2007. In 2020, he worked on the COP 26 climate change conference, as Regional Ambassador for China, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Moderator:
Dr. Gemma Tetlow
Chief Economist, Institute for Government
Dr. Tetlow leads the Institute’s work on public finances and contributes to economics-related work across the Institute. She is a regular commentator on the radio and television and in the print media.
Dr. Tetlow is a graduate of the University of Warwick and has a PhD from UCL in Economics. She started her career as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, eventually being promoted to lead its work on public finances and pensions. After that, she joined the Financial Times as economics correspondent, reporting on UK and global economic developments, before joining IfG in 2018. Dr. Tetlow also serves as an Office of National Statistics Fellow, helping the UK’s national statistics authority to transform and improve its economic statistics, sits on the advisory board for the CAGE (Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy) in the Department of Economics at Warwick University and is a governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR).