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Monday
19:30-21:15
Hinterlands Main Space

10 Years Since the Financial Crisis: Transforming the Global Economy
The World Transformed

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In 2008, the world economy was rocked by the worst crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis exposed the irrationality, injustice, and unsustainability at the heart of global capitalism. And yet, a decade on, we still live with its fallout. Join the Shadow Chancellor and international guests to discuss what’s wrong with the whole structure of the global economy, and how a radical Labour government can lead the way in building a new international economic order that works for the many, not the few.




Speakers

John McDonnell MP
Politician // Labour Party

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington

Leo Panitch
Academic

Editor of the Socialist Register and distinguished research professor at York University, Canada.

Raquel Rolnik
Architect & Urban Planner

Architect, urban planner and former UN special rapporteur on adequate housing

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Global Justice Now

Policy and advocacy team manager at Global Justice Now. Her work as organiser, researcher/analyst, educator, and campaigner in social movements and NGOs spans almost 30 years. She works on and writes about climate change and energy issues, impacts of globalised trade and investments on people’s livelihoods in Asia, China‘s new role in the global political economy and other economic justice concerns.

Grace Blakeley
Researcher // IPPR

Writer and Research Fellow on IPPR’s Commission on Economic Justice

Ann Pettifor
Economist // PRIME - Policy Research in Macroeconomics

Ann Pettifor is a political economist, author, fellow of the New Economics Foundation, and director of PRIME – Policy Research in Macroeconomics. Since 2015, Ann is a senior economic advisor to the Labour Party. She is famous for her work on debt and the international financial architecture, leading an international campaign which resulted in the cancellation of $100 billion of debt owed by the poorest countries.