In both the US and UK last year, voters voiced anxiety over demographic and economic shifts. Campaigns against the status quo on both the left and the right swept some of the world’s most prosperous nations, calling into question the strength of the social fabric that binds them. We’ll dive into the historical context, the economic drivers, and consider where governments have blind spots when it comes to the needs of certain groups. We’ll ask how we might constructively address the politics of “the elite” vs. “the ignored” and start working together toward a system that works for us all.
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo is Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics; Professor of International and Area Studies; and Professor Adjunct of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He served as President of Mexico from 1994-2000.
Currently he is a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders using their collective experience and influence for peace, justice and human rights worldwide.
He served as Chair of the Commission to recommend the future course of the International Atomic Energy Agency and from 2008 to 2010 as Chair of the High Level Commission on Modernization of World Bank Group Governance. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute and Co-Chair of the Inter-American Dialogue. He also co-chairs the Shared Border, Shared Future working group of the Center for Global Development that is proposing a new bilateral agreement to regulate future flows of lower-skill labor between Mexico and the United States. He is a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, the G30, and the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He has served on numerous international commissions, including as Vice Chair of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security with Kofi Annan. In 2011 he was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society.
Gemma is an award-winning social entrepreneur, thinker and practitioner in transformative, social change. She is currently incubating The New Constellation project which explores the ideas and initiatives we need to break through to new social, environmental and economic paradigms. She is Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of More In Common and a member of the Boards of Bite Back 2030 and The HALO Trust. She was previously Chief Global Officer at Change.org, the world’s largest platform for social change, and CEO of Crisis Action. She lives on Dartmoor which she loves exploring with her young family.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009-2011 she served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 2002–2009 and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School from 1994-2002. She has written or edited seven books, including “the Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World”, “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family”, and “A New World Order”, and is a frequent contributor to a number of publications, including The Atlantic, Financial Times, and Project Syndicate. In 2012, she published “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” in The Atlantic, which quickly became one of the most read articles in the history of the magazine and helped spark a renewed national debate on the continued obstacles to genuine full male-female equality. She is married to Professor Andrew Moravcsik; they live in Princeton with their two sons.
Head of Editorial Partnerships + Special Projects, BBC World Service Group
Emily leads high profile projects across the BBC. These include Crossing Divides - a pan BBC multi-platform season about bringing people together in a fragmented world across lines of faith, politics, ethnicity, and generation as well as SoICanBreathe – a BBC News multi-platform season about tackling air pollution. She also directs the BBC Komla Dumor Award for African Journalists. Emily leads the solutions-focused journalism project at the BBC, kick-starting a culture change inside the organisation. This has been achieved via seasons, and delivering workshops from Nairobi to Delhi to Birmingham, toolkits and blogs and speaking at many events and conferences. She previously served as an award-winning broadcaster and editor at the BBC, reporting and producing for the BBC across 5 continents. Emily has been a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre, Said Business School, University of Oxford, a Senior Advisor to the Skoll Foundation and has written for The Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Economist and the FT, plus hosts panels globally. Emily is also a BBC Executive Coach, and on the board of The Wingate Foundation.
