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STRANGE NEW WORLD: THE DEBATE
Tuesday
16 April 2002 10pm-11.30pm |
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Prominent political thinkers and international policy-makers debate the proper role and responsibility of the West towards developing nations in the post-11 September world. Andrew Marr chairs.
THE PARTICIPANTS
Mike Moore
Director General of the World Trade Organisation since September 1999. Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, in a long and distinguished career in politics Moore has held numerous trade-related portfolios and served in a number of senior political positions. His latest book is A Brief History of the Future (1998).
Professor Mary Kaldor
Principal Research Fellow and Programme Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics. Author of New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (1999).
Larry Lindsey
Chief Economic Advisor to President Bush. Director of National Economic Council. 1991-1997 on Board of Governors of Federal Reserve. Former Professor of Economics at Harvard. Worked in the White House during both Bush and Reagan administrations.
George Soros
Hungarian-born financial speculator and philanthropic billionaire. He has donated more than $2.8 billion to his foundation which promotes liberal democracy throughout the globe. Still worth around $5 billion, Soros has promised to give away the rest of his wealth before he turns 80 (he is 72 this year). His most recent book is George Soros on Globalisation (March 2002).
Hernando de Soto
Peruvian economist, founder and president of the think tank Institute of Liberty and Democracy, in Lima - regarded by The Economist as the second most important think tank in the world. He has been an economist for GATT and a governor of Peru's Central Reserve Bank. He was Principal Advisor to President Alberto Fujimori. Author of The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (2000).
Irwin Stelzer
Sunday Times columnist and an economic adviser to Rupert Murdoch. Director of the Hudson Institute policy think tank, consultant to various US and UK industries. Founder of Economic Research Associates.
Dr Kwesi Owusu
Author, filmmaker and campaigner on issues around globalisation, development and Third World debt - he headed up the African section of Jubilee 2000 which called for the cancellation of Third World debt by the year 2000. His latest book is called Black British Culture and Society (1999).
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Author and journalist and researcher for the Foreign Policy Centre, an independent think tank committed to developing innovative thinking and effective solutions for our increasingly interdependent world. In October 2001, she won the GG2 Diversity and Leadership Media Personality of the Year award for her "fearless" writing as an Independent columnist.
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