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Thursday, 19 March 2015, Jesus College, Cambridge
A group of senior decision makers from academia, government, industry, NGOs, think tanks, and the media met to discuss inequality - a global and vital issue of the day.
Participants included:
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Dr Michael Hastings CBE, Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick, Global Head of Corporate Citizenship, KPMG
Professor Martin Daunton, Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge
Dr Duncan Kelly, Reader in Political Thought, University of Cambridge and TLS reviewer of Piketty
Professor Anna Vignoles, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge
Dr Pedro Ramos Pinto, Director of Inequality and History Network, University of Cambridge
Professor David Runciman, Head of Department of Politics, University of Cambridge
Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Member of Parliament for Havant, former Minister for Universities and Science
Professor the Baroness Lister of Burtersett, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
Ferdinand Mount, former Head of Policy Unit, 10 Downing Street, journalist and author of
The New Few: Power and Inequality in Britain Now or A Very British Oligarchy
Anatole Kaletsky, Chief Economist, Gavekal Dragonomics,and Chairman, Institute for New Economic Thinking INET
Conor Ryan, Director of Research, The Sutton Trust
Deborah Hargreaves, Director, High Pay Centre
Christian Guy, Director, Centre for Social Justice
Professor Jo White, Professor of Philosophy, UCL
Paul Westbury, Group Technical Director, Laing O'Rourke
Tomás Carruthers, Chief Executive, The Social Stock Exchange.
The report of this conference is now available
here