Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
Poverty
Speaker biographies
Our panel including Frank Field MP, John Bird, Julia Unwin and Mark Easton
Persistent poverty in Britain / Focus / Speaker biographies
Doug Saunders
Arrival Cities, rural to urban migration and the growth of urban areas.
Adapting to an urban future / Focus / Doug Saunders