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We are pleased to announce that Will Straw will be speaking at the plenary session on the subject of the ‘acceptable face of capitalism’ at this year’s IR Society Annual Conference – the ‘Competition for Capital’ on 22 May 2012. Straw will consider the potential impact of social unrest on the way in which investors assess companies, the possibility in the increase in SRI and the accompanying issues for companies to consider?
This is in addition to this week's announcement that Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liberal Democrat MP, Rt Hon. Danny Alexander, will deliver the pre-lunch keynote address at this year's conference.
Will Straw is the Founder of Left Foot Forward, Associate Director for Globalisation and Climate Change at the Institute for Public Policy Research, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for American Progress. He was a 2007-08 Fulbright Scholar and worked for four years at HM Treasury. He is a former President of the Oxford University Student Union and co-edited “The Change We Need: What Britain can learn from Obama’s victory“.
Areas of expertise:
• Globalisation and international economics
• Climate change, energy and transport
• Economic policy, especially growth, innovation and productivity
• Constitutional reform
• Modern campaigning, including community organising, new media, and online activism
Will also leads IPPR’s strategic development, including its international partnership programme.
Will is an experienced media performer, with recent appearances on Any Questions?, the Today Programme, Daybreak, Channel 4 News and Newsnight, as well as regular slots on Sky News, BBC News, BBC World Service, Radio 5Live, and LBC. He writes regularly for Comment is Free, Left Foot Forward and Progress Online. His writing has also appeared in The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect, Politico, American Prospect, Huffington Post, New Statesman, Coffee House and Total Politics magazine, among others. In 2009, Will co-edited The Change We Need: What Britain can learn from Obama’s victory published by the Fabian Society.
Will is founder of Left Foot Forward, Britain's No 1 left-wing blog, where he worked as editor until December 2010. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC, where he worked from 2008–09 as Associate Director on Economic Growth, leading the Centre’s work on the US stimulus package, globalisation and innovation.
Previously, Will was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, where he gained a Master of Public Administration in the Program in Economic Policy Management. He worked for four years at HM Treasury, primarily on enterprise and growth policy. He is a former President of the Oxford University Student Union.
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Published: 16 February, 2012