David Miliband on Humanitarian Crisis Leadership

September 30th, 2020 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
David Miliband is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where he oversees the agency’s humanitarian relief operations in more than 40 war-affected countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in over 20 United States cities. In 2019 alone, the IRC provided 1,474,900 children with schooling and…

 

Ngaire Woods on Global Economic Governance

September 24th, 2020 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Professor Ngaire Woods is one of the world’s preeminent experts in global government, and governance. She is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organizations, the challenges of globalization,…

 

Critical Theory: Dr. James Lindsay on New Discourses

September 15th, 2020 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Critical theories have a distinctive aim amongst the methods by which we evaluate our society. They ostensibly wish to unmask the justifications for some form(s) of social or economic oppressions as being ideology and thus contribute to the ending of that oppression. The noble aim of critical theory therefore is…