List of 2025 past briefings
Rupert Soames OBE, Chair, CBI:
“New Year Resolutions for the British Economy”
Dame Clare Moriarty DCB, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice:
“Energy Affordability”
Shankar Sridharan, Chief Clinical Officer, Great Ormand Street Hospital:
“Generative AI in healthcare—improving capacity, flow and quality of care”
Jonathan Black, Cabinet Office:
“How does Geopolitics impact prospects for growth?”
Peter Foster, Public Policy Editor, The Financial Times:
“The UK industrial strategy: can Labour really kick-start growth?”
Sir Alex Chisholm, UK Chair, EDF:
“Energy transition - the role of nuclear generation and public and private partnerships”
Jonathan Knott CMG, HM Trade Commissioner for Latin America & the Caribbean:
“Pan Latin America trade and relationships”
Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner Cybersecurity Services, IBM:
“AI - the security context”
Juergen Maier CBE FRS, Chair, Great British Energy and Chair, Digital Catapult:
“How do we increase the pace of energy transition?”
Dr Paul Litchfield CBE FRCP, Independent Chief Medical Adviser to Compass Group and ITV:
“Getting the Sick Man of Europe back into productive employment”
Professor Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London:
“China update”
David Zapolsky, Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer, Amazon:
“Tech regulation at a time of geopolitical change”
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”
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”
Rain Newton-Smith, Chief Executive, CBI:
“Tech-driven growth: productivity, living standards and the future”
James Heath, Former Chief Executive, National Infrastructure Commission:
“Reflections on UK infrastructure policy”
HE Mr Antony Phillipson CMG, British High Commissioner to South Africa:
“South Africa update”
Rt Hon Lord Robertson KT GCMG, Reviewer, Strategic Defence Review and Secretary General of NATO (1999-2003):
“The Strategic Defence Review… harnessing commercial innovation for defence applications and developing mutually beneficial private and public sector relationships”
Sir Jan du Plessis, Chair of the Financial Reporting Council:
“Supporting economic growth through high standards in regulation”
HE Mr Andrew Mitchell CMG, British Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany:
“Germany update”
Jonathan Legh-Smith MBE, Executive Director UK Quantum:
“Quantum Technologies: what do they mean for the UK economy?”
Sir Edward Braham KB, Chair, M&G and Non Executive Board member HM Treasury:
“Investing in UK to improve returns for savers”
Lionel Barber, Author, Editor of the Financial Times 2005 to 2020 and co-host of the “media confidential" podcasts with Alan Rusbridger:
“Reflections on the American Revolution - big, bad or beautiful?”
HE Mr Pedro Serrano, European Union Ambassador to the United Kingdom:
“EU-UK relations”
Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE, Permanent Secretary at the Home Office (2020 to 2025):
“Collaboration and partnership between government, the civil service and business”
Jeremy Pocklington CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero:
“COP 30 - climate change, energy transition and net zero”
Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority:
“Competition—an engine for growth and a lever for industrial strategy”
Professor Sir Ian Chapman, Chief Executive Officer, UKRI:
“How R&I can fuel economic growth”
Sir Robin Niblett KCMG
“What might 2025 portend for 2026?”