Previous UK-JP Speakers
Ian Clarke
2022
Building the Future, Together
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Founder, Deilight Consulting
Founder of multi-award-winning culture transformers Deilight Consulting, Ian Clarke is also a Psychologist, Therapist, Investment Banker, Author and himself a multi-award-winning Activist and Philanthropist. In 2021 he authored a 45-page report documenting the nature and costs of oppression in global financial services that led to the first black appointments on the board of Europe’s largest bank in history. You can read what Ian had to say about his collaboration with UKJP on his blog here.
Jodie Ginsberg
CEO, Internews Europe
Jodie Ginsberg is the Chief Executive of Internews Europe. She is the former CEO of Index on Censorship, which publishes the work of censored writers and artists and campaigns for free speech worldwide. In addition, she was previously London Bureau Chief for Reuters news agency and spent more than a decade as a foreign correspondent and business journalist. She sits on the council of global free expression network IFEX and the board of the Global Network Initiative, and is a regular commentator in international media on issues related to freedom of expression.
2021
Ethics & Technology
2020
Climate Change
Roman Krznaric
Philosopher
Roman Krznaric is a cultural thinker, founding member of The School of Life and Empathy Museum, and author who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His books, including Empathy, The Wonderbox, and Carpe Diem Regained, have been published in more than 20 languages. He discussed his new book, How To Be a Good Ancestor, with UK-JP participants, addressing our limited collective capacity for long-term thinking.
Koko Kondo
Peace Activist
Koko Kondo is a Hiroshima survivor, having been exposed to the nuclear bomb at 8 months. Only an infant at the time the bomb was dropped, her life was affected long after it had detonated. Many hid their survivor status to avoid discrimination. The novelty of the bomb and public ignorance about its effects created a fertile ground for fear. She broke her silence to raise awareness about the effects of nuclear weapons, becoming a peace advocate and urging UKJP participants to create a nuclear-free world.
2019
Nuclear Weapons
2018
Migration and Labour Rights
Pablo de Orellana
Political Scientist
Pablo de Orellana is an inter-disciplinary scholar on diplomacy, nationalism, the relationship between art and conflict, and a lecturer at King’s College London. He delivered an interactive talk on the "Transition of Nationalism in Japan" with a unique mix of political philosophy, literary analysis, history, and aesthetics.
Takehiko Kariya
Sociologist
Takehiko Kariya is Professor of the Sociology of Japanese Study at the University of Oxford, having taught at the University of Tokyo for two decades. His research focuses on the sociology of education, educational and social policies, and social changes in postwar Japan. With him, UK-JP participants identified the poverty-education link and examined solutions to break the intergenerational chain of deprivation in Japan, in the context of a declining birthrate and an aging population.
2016
Poverty