List of 2025 past briefings

January 15, 2025

Rupert Soames OBE, Chair, CBI:

“New Year Resolutions for the British Economy”

January 29, 2025

Dame Clare Moriarty DCB, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice:

“Energy Affordability”

February 12, 2025

Shankar Sridharan, Chief Clinical Officer, Great Ormand Street Hospital:

“Generative AI in healthcare—improving capacity, flow and quality of care”

February 26, 2025

Jonathan Black, Cabinet Office:

“How does Geopolitics impact prospects for growth?”

March 5, 2025

Peter Foster, Public Policy Editor, The Financial Times:

“The UK industrial strategy: can Labour really kick-start growth?”

March 12, 2025

Sir Alex Chisholm, UK Chair, EDF:

“Energy transition - the role of nuclear generation and public and private partnerships”

March 25, 2025

Jonathan Knott CMG, HM Trade Commissioner for Latin America & the Caribbean:

“Pan Latin America trade and relationships”

April 2, 2025

Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner Cybersecurity Services, IBM:

“AI - the security context”

April 9, 2025

Juergen Maier CBE FRS, Chair, Great British Energy and Chair, Digital Catapult:

“How do we increase the pace of energy transition?”

May 7, 2025

Dr Paul Litchfield CBE FRCP, Independent Chief Medical Adviser to Compass Group and ITV:

“Getting the Sick Man of Europe back into productive employment”

May 14, 2025

Professor Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London:

“China update”

June 10, 2025

David Zapolsky, Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer, Amazon:

“Tech regulation at a time of geopolitical change”

June 11, 2025

Rt Hon Justine Greening, Chair, The Purpose Coalition and former Secretary of State for Education, for International Development and for Transport:

“Social Mobility - breaking down barriers to opportunities and boosting growth”

June 18, 2025

Jo Shanmugalingam, Second Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport:

“Investment in transport and transport infrastructure and its contribution to the health of the UK economy and international trade”