The role of narrative in challenging a world where the 1% have more wealth than 95% of the world’s population. At a time when the effects of wealth hoarding and inequality are starkly dictating our collective trajectory, this event will explore how we work with narrative to challenge this.

Our speakers:

Jake Hayman

Co-founder of The Good Ancestor’s movement, Ten Years’ Time, etc.

Jake has spent 20 years working with the world’s wealthiest families. Jake founded/co-founded a number of advisory firms working with wealth holders including The Social Investment Consultancy, Impatience Earth, Good Ancestor Movement and Ten Years’ Time. Previously he co-founded social enterprises Future First, 2027 and InHive, and served on the trustee board of the Early Intervention Foundation and the board and investment committee of the Lankelly Chase Foundation. In 2024 Jake co-founded the social enterprise Humans in the Office to support social mobility in the workplace. He is now spending most of his time working on Impatience Insiders – mobilising those inside the professional services to support a just transition.

Sarah Kerr

Research Fellow, International Inequalities Institute, LSE

Sarah is a research fellow in the Wealth, Elites and Tax Justice team at LSE's International Inequalities Institute. Her new book Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let's talk Wealtherty turns the poverty conversation on its head by putting wealth at the heart of social policy debates. The book is part re-frame, part manifesto, part history. Its aim is to change how we think about and talk about the role of wealth in society in order to help shift the (scholarly and campaigning) gaze up to wealth and the wealthy. What happens when we seek to understand the state we are in from this perspective? What histories do we uncover? What solutions might we need to work towards? The book complements ongoing work on narrative change around wealth inequality between LSE and JRF.

Jean McLean

Interim Convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, Tax Justice UK Board member

Jean is the Interim Convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, and a Tax Justice UK Board member. Since starting her very own environment club at the age of 9, Jean has been committed to making the world a better place, and joined the GEC in March 2022 to head up our communications and outreach work. With a proven record of building teams, culture and structures, Jean brings experience built over her career at Elrha, Global Citizen, ActionAid and Save the Children to champion the role of people in creating and implementing the infrastructure to deliver systemic change. Jean was appointed interim convenor of the Coalition in July 2024.

Milly Shotter

Author of Risks Of Extreme Wealth

Milly is the author of Risks of Extreme Wealth with Good Ancestor Movement and Patriotic Millionaires. She currently works independently on projects and with people working on social and environmental issues from a systemic perspective. She intentionally works in a cross-sector, multi-disciplinary way that means she can connect unique sets of dots. Her experience spans impact investing, systemic investing, tech for good, venture capital, systems change, futures thinking, creative production, strategic design, branding, communications, fundraising, community engagement, event management, workshop design and delivery, facilitation and stakeholder engagement.

Gary Stevenson

Author of The Trading Game, host of Garys Economics

Gary is the author of The Trading Game, and the founder and host of the Youtube channel Garys Economics. He left his trading career behind, convinced that solving inequality was the only way to repair the world economy. He has since studied for an MPhil at Oxford, worked with economic think-tanks, and through his Youtube channel is teaching people about real-world economics. He regularly appears on television and radio and has written for the Guardian and OpenDemocracy, among others.