Welcome to the first episode on BIGA’s exclusive series on the Youth G20! Each year, the country that hosts the G20 is also expected to host different engagement groups such as the Women20, Business20, ThinkTank20, and others. BIGA’s founder, Alastair Nicol, was selected as one of the UK Youth Delegates to the G20 and in …
Welcome to the final episode in our series on Resilience! Having looked at what Resilience means; how it applies to both the state, society, and the private sector; and focusing on what Finland does so well, this last episode is a conversation about the UK and resilience. Joining us to explore this topic is Ed …
As we reach our penultimate episode for the series, we turn to a practitioner whose work before and during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has persevered in promoting culture as a form of national resilience. Agatha Gorski is the co-founder of the Shadows Project, a Kyiv-based NGO that protects and decolonises Ukrainian culture. Our conversation …
Throughout our conversations on Resilience, there is one country that is regularly touted as being the model for whole-of-society resilience and ‘Total Defence’: Finland. In this episode, we talk to Tom Woolmore, a Research Assistant for the Regional Resilience Project for the Centre for Statecraft and National Security and a Master’s graduate from King’s College …
Welcome back to the second week in our Resilience podcast. In this episode, BIGA sits down to talk with Nicholas Dungan, the CEO of CogitoPraxis – a European-based strategic consultancy firm whose work focuses on supporting clients to become ‘360 degrees resilience’. From his trans-Atlantic background spanning Stanford and Sciences Po, our conversation starts with …
Welcome back to the BIGA podcast! As promised, we are aiming to post one season per quarter, so you can expect four seasons and four fascinating topics to explore this year! With a world that seems increasingly volatile, chaotic, and unpredictable there is one phrase that has found increasing traction in security circles: resilience. In …
Welcome to the final episode in our Green Politics podcast! This season has brought in academics, activists, and consultants to discuss what climate change means for the UK, where to really locate the problems, and who takes responsibility for fixing them. In this last episode, however, we move away from the strictly political and towards …
In this penultimate episode, BIGA explores a debate that seems to be at the cross-roads of many of the issues that the UK faces: whether to build, or conserve. Our guest today has spent his career in “Prac-Academics” making sure that his research could be put to good use but Councillors and MPs alike. With …
As we reach the midpoint of our series on Green Politics, we are joined by two sustainability consultants: Adam Ellis and Peter Westbury. Adam’s work focuses on incorporating climate consciousness into F1 and racing while Peter’s work looks to help account for, and measure, carbon output from organisations. Their current work builds on their university …
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This year’s COP summit faces one of the lowest attendance rates in recent years and has made headlines for protests led by indigenous Brazilians. In this podcast, we talk to Ekaterina Dimitrova – a certified Youth Climate Ambassador who has attended multiple COPs in the UK, Azerbaijan, and the United Arab Emirates. In this conversation, …