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The Future Shape of Capitalism
March 2009 // Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
An expert panel, including Vince Cable MP, John Micklethwait and Evan Davis, discussed whether the current financial crisis and the downturn in the global economy will change the shape of capitalism as we know it today.
Evan Davis is one of the presenting team on Radio 4's Today programme, and host of the BBC's Dragons' Den. He also interviews business leaders on The Bottom Line.
After making his name on Newsnight, Evan then reached a wider audience as BBC Economics Editor, with regular reports across all TV news bulletins. His other credits include Big Ideas, in which he explored significant trends confronting policy makers in the twenty-first century.
Prior to joining the BBC, Evan was an economist at The Institute of Fiscal Studies. He also worked for the Centre for Business Strategy at the London Business School, after completing his Harkness Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Evan Davis is a three time winner of the Work Foundation's Broadcast Journalist of the Year award. He sits on the Advisory Council of the Social Market Foundation, and co-edited the Penguin dictionaries of both business and economics.
BBC Radio 4 Today Programme The Bottom Line Dragon's Den
Vince Cable MP has been the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor since November 2003 and is currently Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Vincent Cable was first elected to Parliament to represent Twickenham in 1997. He has had a varied career which includes time at the Foreign Office, Chatham House and as Shell’s Chief Economist.
He has published several books and reports on international economics, trade and environmental issues.
Vince Cable has been a leading figure in the debates surrounding the current global financial crisis.
John Micklethwait is the editor-in-chief of The Economist, the world's leading weekly magazine on current affairs and business.
After studying history at Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a banker at Chase Manhattan between 1985 and 1987 before joining The Economist as a finance correspondent in 1987.
In 1990 he was voted the Young Financial Journalist of the Year, awarded by the Harold Wincott Foundation.
Since then his roles at The Economist have included setting up the bureau in Los Angeles, where he worked from 1990–1993; being the newspaper’s media correspondent; editing the business section; running the New York bureau; and, most recently, editing the United States section.
He has written surveys for the paper on California, business in Asia, Argentina, Silicon Valley, the United States, and the entertainment industry.
He is a frequent broadcaster and has appeared on CNN, ABC News, BBC, Start the Week and NPR.
Mr Micklethwait has co-authored with Adrian Wooldridge, also an Economist journalist, four books: "The Witch Doctors"; "A Future Perfect: the Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation"; "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea"; and "The Right Nation", a study of conservatism in America”.