The next Future of the Corporation Purpose Summit is coming up on 1, 2 and 4 February 2021. Please register (for free) and join us to hear from our stunning line-up of speakers: Al Gore, Arunma Oteh, Minouche Shafik, Janine Guillot, Rebecca Henderson, Ed Miliband, Saker Nusseibeh, Raghuram Rajan, Leo Strine, David Blood, Lord Adebowale, Natalie Campbell, and Jesse Norman, Gillian Tett, Julia Black and Julie Pybus.

The Summit brings together leaders and experts to discuss how government can support and work with more purposeful business to solve the problems of people and planet.  With the challenges facing society today, the role played by business has never been more vital and the British Academy’s Future of the Corporation programme developed a comprehensive set of Principles for Purposeful Business that reshape business by placing purpose at its heart.  This event gives a platform for discussing the policies that govern the relationship between business and society and how they can be changed to make business more purposeful.

This will be a virtual event streamed via the British Academy’s website. Register for free for the event to receive updates, lodge your questions early and get details of the livestream.

Here is the programme:

1. Why we need Government leadership to promote purposeful business
Monday 1 February 2021, 3:30-5pm GMT

• Chair: Gillian Tett, Chair Editorial Board, Editor-at-large, US The Financial Times
• Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and Chairman of Generation Investment Management
• Arunma Oteh, Executive-In-Residence, SBS, University of Oxford, Former Treasurer and VP World Bank
• Minouche Shafik, Director of the LSE

2. How Government can promote purposeful business through law, regulation and standards
Tuesday 2 February 2021, 3-4:30pm GMT

• Chair: Professor Julia Black CBE FBA, Professor of Law and Strategic Director of Innovation at LSE
• Saker Nusseibeh CBE, CEO of the International Business of Federated Hermes
• Janine Guillot, Chief Executive of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
• Professor Rebecca Henderson FBA, University Professor at Harvard Business School
• Professor Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
• Rt Hon Edward Miliband MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Leo Strine, former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court

3: How Government can support business to become purposeful through partnerships and skills
Thursday 4 February 2021, 2:30-4pm GMT

• Chair: Julie Pybus, Freelance Journalist and Global Editor of Pioneers Post
• David Blood, Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management
• Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Chair of Social Enterprise UK
• Natalie Campbell, CEO of Belu Water
• Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• Julia Hobsbawm OBE, Editorial Intelligence and Chair of the Workshift Commission

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