21CC Oxford 2015 Programme

A CENTURY OF CHALLENGES.

A DAY

OF DEBATES.

21CC 2015 has been made possible through kind support from Green Templeton College, St John’s College, Merton College, and the Oxford Martin School

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"By bringing great people together, we think we’ll be able to make a difference, and what this wonderful day will do is, I hope, provide a flavour of that: bring some great people together on big topics, and engage with students. If we want to make a difference to our world, we’ve really got to do things differently, and this is a great attempt to begin that process.”

Professor Ian Goldin Director, Oxford Martin School

DAY OUTLINE 10:00 - Introduction by Professor Ian Goldin

10:10 - Cyber Security; Blurring Boundaries, Blurring Morals?

MAJOR-GENERAL JONATHAN SHAW; PROFESSOR IVAN TOFT; PROFESSOR SADIE CREESE; DR GUS HOESEIN; GRAHAM WRIGHT

11:30 - Geoengineering, Will We Use It?

PROFESSOR STEVE RAYNER, PROFESSOR MYLES ALLEN, DR JASON BLACKSTOCK, DR MATT WATSON

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - Social Inequality: How Will It Shape Modern Society?

PROFESSOR DANNY DORLING, PROFESSOR BRIAN NOLAN, FRAN BENNETT, DR PAMELA HARTIGAN

14:40 - Arms Trafficking: Inevitable Or Preventable?

EDMOND E. SEAY III, ELLI KYTOMAKI, BRIAN WOOD

15:45 – Finish

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INTRODUCTION PROFESSOR IAN GOLDIN Director, Oxford Martin School; Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford. Former Vice President of the World Bank (2003-2006), Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and adviser to Nelson Mandela. He was knighted by the French Government and named Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.

CYBER SECURITY: BLURRING BOUNDARIES, BLURRING MORALS?

MAJOR GENERAL (Rtd) JONATHAN SHAW CBE Former Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff Formerly responsible for international security policy, global issues and the Defence Cyber Security Programme, he left the MoD in 2012 and holds roles at Optima Group UK, Certivox, and Tempest Group. GRAHAM WRIGHT Chief Information Security Officer & Head of Digital Risk at the National Grid. Former Deputy Director of the Office of Cyber Security (2009-10) and Director of Targeting and Information Operations at the Ministry of Defence (2005-8). Associate Fellow for Defence and Security at the Royal United Services Institute. DR GUS HOSEIN Executive Director, Privacy International. Former external evaluator for UNHCR and advisor for the UN Special Rapporteur on Terrorism and Human Rights. Visiting fellow at Columbia University and the LSE. Previously Visiting Scholar at the American Civil Liberties Union and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).

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PROFESSOR SADIE CREESE Director, Cyber Security Centre at the Oxford Martin School. Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Computing, she has recently published on Cyber Warfare, the influence of Social Media and Risk Control for Big Data. She is former Director of Strategic Programs at QinetiQ, where, she developed, delivered and directed the government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network. PROFESSOR IVAN ARREGUÍN-TOFT Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston. His current research focuses on the utility of barbarism in war and is an expert in asymmetric conflict including cyber security, insurgency, counterinsurgency, and terrorism. He is Co-Chair of Cyber Security Policy and Strategy at the Global Cybersecurity Capacity Building Centre.

GEOENGINEERING: WILL WE USE IT?

PROFESSOR STEVE RAYNER Steve Rayner is James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS). Co-Director of the Oxford Geoengineering Programme, he served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Royal Society’s Working Group on Climate Geoengineering. His research focuses on the future of cities and novel technologies to address climate change, especially geoengineering. He contributed to the Oxford Principles, a proposed set of guiding principles for the governance of geoengineering. PROFESSOR MYLES ALLEN Head of the Climate Dynamics Group, Oxford. Professor of Geosystem Science, he has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a Lead Author and Review Editor. He focuses on recent climate change and re-assessing global climate simulations. In 2010, he was awarded the Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for "his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions".

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DR JASON BLACKSTOCK Senior Lecturer at UCL and public policy specialist. Acting Head of Department for Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (UCL STEaPP) and Senior Lecturer in Science and Global Affairs. Leading adviser on the interface between science and global public policy. Contributor to the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (www.srmgi.org) and Equinox Summit: Energy 2030 (www.wgsi.org). Expert witness for UK Parliamentary Committee on Science and Technology. DR MATT WATSON Principal Investigator on ‘SPICE’. Reader in Natural Hazards at Bristol University, he is Principal Investigator on the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project, using his expertise in volcanology to assess the potential climate impacts of injecting aerosol particles into the stratosphere, in a way that could replicate the cooling effect of volcanic plumes.

SOCIAL INEQUALITY: HOW WILL IT SHAPE MODERN SOCIETY?

FRAN BENNETT Senior Research Fellow, Department for Social Policy and Intervention and EU social inclusion advisor. She chairs the editorial board of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice and is Previous Director of the Child Poverty Action Group. In the late 1990s she was policy advisor on UK and EU poverty issues for Oxfam GB. Her research focuses on social security policy, gender issues, and poverty and income distribution. She has recently written an evidence and policy review on gender and poverty for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's anti-poverty strategies programme.

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PROFESSOR DANNY DORLING Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography and Britain’s ‘leading social thinker’ (BBC HARDtalk 2014). He is an Expert Group Advisory Member for the United Nations’ World Economic and Social Survey. His research focuses on housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty. Most recently he has been involved with the EU’s ‘Growing Inequalities’ Impacts’ project. His most recent publications include: ‘Inequality and the 1%’; ‘The Social Atlas of Europe’; ‘Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times’; ‘Why Social Inequalities Persist’; and, ‘The No-nonsense Guide to Equality’.

PROFESSOR BRIAN NOLAN Director, Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. His main areas of research are income inequality, poverty, and the economics of social policy. Recent research has focused on trends in income inequality and their societal impacts, the distributional effects of the economic crisis, social inclusion in the EU, top incomes, deprivation and multiple disadvantage, and tax/welfare reform. He has been centrally involved research for the EU. Recent books include: The Handbook of Economic Inequality, Poverty and Deprivation in Europe and The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income.

DR PAMELA HARTIGAN Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She is one of the world’s leading proponents of social entrepreneurship and is actively engaged in a range of international initiatives to promote it. She is a driving force in supporting initiatives to encourage students from Oxford and elsewhere who want to apply their talents to improving the state of the world, in identifying academics involved in relevant research, and developing case studies and creating tailored programmes for social entrepreneurs.

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ARMS TRAFFICKING: INEVITABLE OR PREVENTABLE?

BRIAN WOOD Head of Arms Control and Human Rights, Amnesty International. Initial proposer of recently established Arms Trade Treaty and co-author of the first detailed study of arms brokering (“The Arms Fixers: controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents”). Former consultant to the UN Group of Government Experts on the prevention of illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons. ELLI KYTÖMÄKI Associate Fellow in International Security, Chatham House. Former Project Manager at UNIDIR (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research) and EU-UNIDIR Arms Treaty Expertise Sharing Project. Former contributor to the Forum for Security Cooperation at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Research Fellow at the Small Arms Survey, Project Assistant at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Temporary Attaché at the Permanent Mission of Finland to the UN Conference on Disarmament. EDMOND SEAY III Independent arms control and disarmament consultant. Former Political-Military Affairs Officer at the U.S. Mission to NATO, with responsibility for arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation and missile defense matters (2008-2011). Seconded to the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies in Vienna, Austria. Contributor in Dayton Peace Accords (1994-1996), where he helped draft the Dayton military annex.

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PARTNERS

21CC 2015 was facilitated by generous donations from Green Templeton College, St John’s College, Merton College, and the Oxford Martin School. Without their support the

conference would not have been able to go ahead.

The Oxford Martin School is a unique, interdisciplinary research community of over 300 scholars working to address the most pressing global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. The Oxford Martin Commission recently released a report entitled 'Now for the Long Term'. It can be downloaded at the OMS website:

www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk.

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21CC COMMITTEE CHARLIE DEARMAN BENJAMIN SCRACE CO-DIRECTOR CO-DIRECTOR WILLIAM HODGKINS ROBERT BLACKWELL CO-DIRECTOR CYBER PANEL CLIMATE PANEL PRESIDENT, IRSoc LIZZY DYKSTRA-MCCARTHY NATASHA STOTESBURY ARMS TRAFFICKING CYBER PANEL FRANCESCA MITCHELL IMA BISHOP INEQUALITY CYBER PANEL ELIZABETH HARNETT EMILY COLE-RIDGE INQUALITY CONFERENCE DAY LOUISE WILLIAMS

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