Monday 13 December, 12:30-13:30 GMT/13:30-14:30 CET | Online Event
Monday 13 December, 12:30-13:30 GMT/13:30-14:30 CET | Online Event
The UK has ambitions to enhance its role as a global leader in science. This not only requires strong continuing relations with the rest of Europe – the UK’s biggest and fasting growing scientific collaborator in terms of co-authorship – but a commitment to engage globally in areas of shared research strength, innovation and technology, infrastructure and global challenges. This event is an opportunity to reflect on the UK’s current position and where it needs to get to in order to meet these ambitions.
This session will be open to EU-UK Forum members only.
Featuring Coversations with…
Sir Adrian Smith, President, Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith is President of the Royal Society. He started his five year term on 30 November 2020. He is also the Director and Chief Executive of the Turing Institute, the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. He was knighted in 2011.
Adrian is a mathematician with particular expertise in the field of Bayesian statistics. This widely applicable branch of mathematics represents uncertainties in the form of probabilities, which are then modified through the mechanism of Bayes theorem as new information becomes available. Adrian’s comprehensive monographs on diverse areas of Bayesian statistics have had a major impact on statistical practice in a wide range of disciplines and application areas.
Sir Adrian Smith
President, Royal Society
Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Honorary Professor, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is currently Honorary Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) in Bures-sur-Yvette (France).
He has been the ERC President from 2014 to 2019 and was then called to hold the position ad interim from July 2020 to August 2021. A mathematician by training, he spent his career as a fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) from 1969 to 2013. He was Professor at the École polytechnique from 1986 to 2012 and the Director of IHÉS from 1994 to 2013. He has been President of the Société Mathématique de France (1990-1991) and of the European Mathematical Society (1995-1998). From the Académie des Sciences de Paris he received the Prix Paul Langevin and the Prix du Rayonnement Français in Mathematical Sciences & Physics. He is a member of Academia Europaea since 1995. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of Keio University, Japan, of Nankai University, China, and of the University of Edinburgh.
Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Honorary Professor, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Dr Lara Stoimenova, Managing Director, Sigma Economics Dr Lara Stoimenova is a competition and regulatory policy expert with significant experience in public and private sectors. She has experience in a wide range of industry sectors (including telecoms and digital) and an in-depth understanding of the political and strategic context of each.
She is the founder of Sigma Economics and associate partner at DT Economics, providing advice to firms wishing to influence the competition and regulatory environment they operate in. She is also an independent member on the board of the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority and chair of its Audit and Risk Committee.
Until recently she was a partner at Flint Global – a boutique business consultancy – and co-head of its Competition and Regulatory practice. Prior to that, she was an inquiry director in the Markets and Mergers Directorate of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and programme director at UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom.
Before joining Ofcom, she spent considerable time in consulting (Arthur Andersen) and industry (Unilever).
Dr Lara Stoimenova
Managing Director, Sigma Economics
Thursday 15 April, 15:00-16:00 BST / 16:00-17:00 CEST
Sylvie Goulard, Deputy Governor, Banque de France and Sarah Breeden, Executive Director UK Deposit Takers Supervision/Prudential Regulation Authority, Bank of England, in conversation with Sir Roger Gifford, Chairman, Green Finance Institute.
Keeping an Open Channel: Opportunities for Dialogue between the British Parliament and the European Parliament
Friday 4 December, PM (Time TBC)
Hilary Benn MP, Chair of the Select Committee on the Future Relationship with the EU & David McAllister MEP, chair of the EP Foreign Affairs Committee in conversation with Georgina Wright, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government
Life after Brexit: Sir Ivan Rogers in conversation with the FT’s Peter Foster on what the TCA means for future EU-UK relations
Thursday 18 February, 14:00 GMT/15:00 CET – 15:00 GMT/16:00 CET
Moving Forward Together?: Opportunities for UK-EU Transport after Brexit
Friday 26 February at 14:30-15:30 GMT/15:30-16:30 CET
Simon Argyle, Deputy Director and Counsellor – Competitiveness, Connectivity and Innovation – UK Mission to the EU in conversation with Mark Watts, Chief Executive of UKTiE
The Impact of Brexit on the EU’s Free Movement of People Rules
Monday 7 December, 10:00-11:00 GMT/11:00-12:00 CET
Jane Golding, Co-Chair of British in Europe, former MEP Jude Kirton-Darling & MEP Danuta Hubner in conversation with Claudia Delpero, Founder & Editor of Europe Street News
Building cultural bridges after Brexit The aim of this webinar was to highlight difficulties and challenges that Brexit has thrown up for UK artists and performers and try to discern solutions to this new reality. Though the focus was on the music industry, many of the issues are shared by artists and organisations in other cultural fields. Our three panel experts were Professor Linda Merrick (Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester), Paul Pacifico (CEO of the Association of Independent Music ) and Mark Pemberton (Director of the Association of British Orchestras). Our moderator was Dr Nigel Clarke, a freelance composer and musician.
Building cultural bridges after Brexit
20 October, 2021 | Online Event
Moving forward together: the UK and EU approach to regulating Big Tech The UK Government is currently consulting on the features of the pro-competition regime for digital markets, while in Europe both the Parliament and Council are considering the Commission’s proposals in its Digital Markets Act. The panellists will discuss their views on the current proposals and what refinements should be introduced to ensure successful implementation.
Will Hayter, Senior Director, Digital Markets Unit, Competition and Markets Authority, Silke Hossenfelder, Head of General Policy Division of the Bundeskartellamt, Germany & Alec Burnside, Partner, Dechert LLP in conversation with Dr Lara Stoimenova, Managing Director, Sigma Economics.
Moving forward together: the UK and EU approach to regulating Big Tech
4 October 2021 | Online Event
France and the UK After Brexit - Friends? Foes? Foreign Policy Challenges Two of Europe’s most distinguished diplomats – Sylvie Bermann, French Ambassador to UK, China and Russia, author of “Goodbye Britannia. Le Royaume-Uni au défi du Brexit” and Lord Peter Ricketts, former UK Ambassador to France and Head of the Foreign Office, author of “Hard Choices. What Britain Does Next,” discuss future EU-UK and Franco-British relations in the era of Brexit. This session will be moderated by Denis MacShane, Former Minister of Europe, commentator on and author of books on recent European politics, including Brexit.
France and the UK After Brexit – Friends? Foes? Foreign Policy Challenges
1 June, 2021 | Online Event
Making the Northern Ireland Protocol Work The implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol has become an important flashpoint in relations between the EU and the UK after the end of the transition period. This online session will explore the likelihood of any future agreement between the two sides.
Jonathan Powell, Director, Inter Mediate, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff, Professor Katy Hayward, Political Sociology, Queen’s University Belfast & Declan Kelleher, Former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the EU in conversation with Tony Connelly, Europe Editor of RTE.
Making the Northern Ireland Protocol Work
5 May, 2021 | Online Event
Net Zero - The Role of Central Banks Central banks are playing an essential role in building a more sustainable economy by helping financial institutions to measure and define environmental risk. What role should they themselves play as investors in their quantitative easing asset purchases? How do they encourage the financial sector to support transition to greener investment? How do they ensure the financial sector itself grows its resilience to climate change risk? And what do they expect from COP26?
We were delighted to have two leading central bankers and advocates of action on climate change discuss these issues and shared challenges, Sylvie Goulard, Deputy Governor, Banque de France & Sarah Breeden, Executive Director UK Deposit Takers Supervision/Prudential Regulation Authority, Bank of England. The session was moderated by Rhian-Mari Thomas, Chief Executive, Green Finance Institute.
Net Zero – The Role of Central Banks
15 April, 2021 | Online Event
The Reality of Brexit: Public attitudes and expectations of what comes next Six months after our launch session, the EU|UK Forum welcomed back Kelly Beaver, Managing Director at Ipsos MORI Public Affairs, to present the findings from their latest polling data, again gathered specifically for us.
The data focused on the British public’s views on Brexit in general, its impact on their day to day lives, the changes they expect to see as a result of Brexit, its impact on Britain’s response to Covid-19 and their views on the importance of the EU-UK relationship post Brexit.
Following Kelly’s presentation, she was joined in conversation by Professor Matthew Goodwin, from Rutherford College at the University of Kent, and Paula Surridge, from the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. The discussion was moderated by Paul Adamson, Chairman of the EU|UK Forum.
The Reality of Brexit: Public attitudes and expectations of what comes next
23 March, 2021 | Online Event
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