EVENTS

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I will be speaking at the following places (I’ll try to keep this list updated):

2025

9 January | Oxford Farming Conference, Oxford University

15 January | Frontline Club, London

23 January | Refugee Action

27 February | Mexican Embassy, London

12 March | International Safety Education Seminar, Levi, Finland

17 March | Lancaster, PA

27 March | Austin College, Texas

22 April | The Conversation, St Martin’s In The Fields

10 May | Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival

19 May | 5×15 Launch of How to Save The Amazon with Jon Watts, online

21 May | CADA and Save the Children talk, Belfast

22 May | Queens University Institute for Global Food Security, Belfast

22 May | Stormont cross party committee, Belfast

25 May | Dialoghi di Pistoia Festival, Italy

5 June | Pianeta di Milana, Italy

20 June | Elsevier World Refugee Day, online

26 June | Lisbon Future Dialogue

28 June | Art Against The Tyrants, De Baille, Amsterdam

1 July | Global Tipping Points Conference, Exeter University

15 August | Does The World Need A Government, Birkbeck College, University of London

19 September| HEAT Climate Tech Festival, Oxfordshire

8 October | UK Atomic Energy Agency, Culham

2024

9 January | FEMA Vanguard Executive Crisis Leadership Forum, U.S. Embassy, London

25 January | MarketingKind xChange with Paul Skinner, online

27 January | BBC World Service Weekend programme

22 February | De Dépendance, Rotterdam

19 March | Manchester Museum

21 March | Imperial College 

21 March | Antibiotic Research UK, Wellcome Collection

17 April | HeroTolk, Oslo

17 April | EGU Award Ceremony, Vienna

18 April | EGU Lecture, Vienna

20 April | Festival of Science, Rome

22 April | World Energy Congress, Rotterdam

24 April | National Ocean Centre meeting, House of Commons

2 May | St. Gallen Symposium, Switzerland

16 May | Impact conference, Poznan, Poland

17 May | Warsaw, Poland

20 May | Camden School for Girls

4 June | La Repubblica Planetary Festival, Milan

5 June | European Civil Protection Forum, Brussels

11 June | Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter

14 June | Kirkdale Bookshop, Sydenham

15 June | Artis Planetary Health Congress, Amsterdam

22 June | Neoloni Literature Festival, Sardinia

25 June | Friends of Europe: Sustainable Livelihoods Summit

11 September | Trienniale Milano Inequalities Forum, Milan

14 September | Malta Impact, Poznan, Poland

17 September | Launch of Se domani il mondo IF TOMORROW THE WORLD, Milan

28 September | Vienna Humanities Festival, Austria

5 October | Planet Festival, Lucca, Italy

16 October | Oak Foundation, Geneva

19 October | BSAC Diving Conference, Birmingham Vox

24 October | Southwark Cathedral, London

25 October | ROAR, Irish Cultural Centre, London

11-12 November | Chance and Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres, Royal Society, London

19 November | ENERGY 2024, online

21 November | Rimini Strategic Plan Foundation

27 November | About A City Festival, Milan

4 December | Earth Emergency, Mendriso, Switzerland

13 December | Cooling Congress, online

22 December | Weekend programme, BBC World Service

2023

21 February | Vermont Council on World Affairs (online)

21 February | European Book Club (online)

23 February | Devex Book Club (online)

25 February | Winchester Cathedral

8 March | Adelaide Writers Festival

9 March | University of NSW, Sydney

16 March | Nesta

17 March | Cambridge Climate Lecture Series

20 March | Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions, Grand Rapids, Michigan

30 March | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

17 April | 5×5 on Fire

18 April | Boise State University (online)

21 April | Cambridge Literary Festival

2 May | Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3

19 May | Bath

21 May | Salone del Libro, Turin

27 May | Hosting a conversation with Sadiq Khan at Hay Festival

28 May | Chairing a conversation with Thomas Halliday and Steve Brusatte at Hay Festival

29 May | Nomad Century at Hay Festival

9 June | Cheltenham Science Festival

10 June | Kite Festival, Oxfordshire

11 June | JLF at the British Library

17 June | Festival of Writing and Ideas, Borris, Ireland

24 June | Wealdon Literary Festival

16 July | Charleston Festival

22 July | Standon Calling

5 August | Wilderness Festival

25 August | Shambala Festival

7 September | British Science Festival, Exeter

9 September | Festivaletteratura Mantova, Italy

10 September | Rovereto, Italy

13 September | World Trade Organisation, Geneva

14 September | Wainwright Prize, Kendal

20 September | WGSN

1 October | Soul Festival, Maldives

9 October | Kardamyli, Greece

11 October | Practical Action, London

12 October | Blackwells, Oxford

15 October | Manchester Literary Festival postponed to March 2024

16 October | How To Academy, Conway Hall

17 October | Opening speech at Frankfurt Book Fair

18 October | Festival of the Future City, Bristol

25 October | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

29 October | Brainwash Festival, Amsterdam

31 October | Minister for the Future, Westminster

9 November | State Of Europe roundtable on a renewed social contract for Europe, Brussels

9 November | Keele World Affairs

14 November | British Science Association For Thought Summit, London

16 November | Corriere della Serra: Economy of the Future, Milan

17 November | Migration, Climate Justice and the Power of Stories, Southbank Centre, London

20 November | Radio 5 Live

23 November | FT Business Book of the Year Webinar: Making the Global Quest for Raw Materials Sustainable

29 November | Mixed Migration Review launch event

30 November | International Organisation for Migration research seminar

2 December | Full Circle Ideas Festival, Brussels

5 December | 5×5 chairing event with Merlin Sheldrake

8 December | NATO’s Border Security , Refugees & Counter Terrorism, Ankara

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2022

26 August | Greenbelt Festival

9 September | Foreign Press Association

12 September | Tipping Points Conference

13 September | Trouble Club

15 September | Topping Bookshop, Bath

24 September | Thames Ditton Festival

30 September | Ways to Change The World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

8 October | New Scientist Live

10 October | Cheltenham Literature Festival

15 October | Wells Literature Festival

16 October | Off The Shelf Festival, Sheffield

20 October | London Literature Festival, Southbank

2 November | Wired Impact

3 November | Stroud Book Festival

6 November | Conway Hall

8 November | Sky TV Breakfast

9 November | BBC Debate Night

11 November | Wired Twitter Space

13 November | BBC World Service Weekend Programme

15 November | Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, Washington DC (v)

18 November | Edinburgh

19 November | College of Europe, Warsaw, Natolin Academy of Migration

20 November | BerkoFest Book Festival

24 November | Taunton Literature Festival

29 November | Science of Biodiversity: Costa Rica

2020

27 August – Edinburgh Book Festival

29 August – Greenbelt Festival, nr Kettering

24 July – British Museum, London

11 July – Idler Festival, Hampstead

4 July – Also Festival, Warwickshire

4 June – Cheltenham Science Festival

29 May – Hay Festival

23 May – In Conversation with Amitav Ghosh, Southbank Centre, London

4 May – Ottawa Writers Festival, Canada

29 April – Bristol Festival of Ideas

29 February – New Scientist at the British Library, London

24 February – 5×15 at Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London

17 January – Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London

2019

8 October – Royal Institute, London

14 October – Bristol Festival of Ideas

4 November – Rickman Breakfast Talk at RADA, London

24 November, Creative Folkstone

28 November – RSA, London

30 November – Cambridge Literature Festival

19 January – Friends of Imperial College, London

27 January – Kirkdale Bookshop, London

19 February – The Story Festival, Conway Hall, London

16 March – 5 x 15, Conway Hall, London

17 March – Story Collider, London

26 March – Edinburgh Science Festival

8 April – Rutgers University, New Jersey

12 April – Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City

19 April – European Geophysical Union Congress, Vienna

29 & 30 May – Hay Festival

12 June – A Way of Being in the World, Balham

17 June – TEDx London, Science Museum London

7 July – Border Sessions, The Hague

8 July – London Zoo

25 July – Manchester Museum

23 September – New Scientist Live, ExCel London

12 October – Royal Geographic Society Lecture, Southampton

15 October – Wells Festival of Literature, Somerset