Meetings in the 184th Session 2016 – 2017
(for details of meetings in the 2015-16 session see previous-meetings)

Friday 7 October 2016

Professor Dame Sue Bailey OBE DBE

Chair, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

 The NHS and Society
– not what can I do, what should I do –
professionals in partnership with patients

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Tuesday 8 November 2016

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky

University of Bristol

Climate models and climate data: confusion and misinformation vs. scientific reality

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Professor Nick Hardwick CBE

School of Law, Royal Holloway University of London
and Chair of the Parole Board

The dangers of keeping us safe – police, prisons, probation and risk

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Tuesday 10 January 2017

Professor John Curtice, FRSA FRSE FBA

University of Strathclyde

Will we ever be able to trust the polls?

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Tuesday 14 February 2017

Professors Julie Froud¹, Sukhdev Johal², John Tomaney³ and Karel Williams¹

¹Alliance Manchester Business School; ²Queen Mary London; ³University College London

The Manchester model? City region economic development since the 1980s

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Tuesday 14 March 2017

Mrs Bridget Rosewell OBE

Senior Partner, Volterra Partners, London,
and Commissioner, National Infrastructure Commission

Infrastructure and the Economy: What can we prove, if anything?

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Tuesday 9 May 2017

Annual General Meeting
followed at 6:30 pm by the
Annual Dinner, after-dinner speaker

Mr John Timpson, CBE,
Chairman, Timpson Group

A Maverick’s View

For speaker’s biography, click here