Reimagine Talks

Pedro Conceição is the Director of the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Before this role, he served as the Director of Strategic Policy at the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, and as Chief Economist and Head of the Strategic Advisory Unit at the Regional Bureau for Africa. His work on financing for development and global public goods has been published by Oxford University Press in books he co-edited. Additionally, he has contributed to several scientific journals, publishing on topics such as inequality, economics, innovation, technological change, and development.

Daniel Susskind is a Professor in Economics at King's College London and Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. Previously, he worked in the British Government and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. He is the author of “A World Without Work “and co-author of the bestselling “The Future of the Professions”. Now, he is presenting his new book “Growth: A Reckoning”.

Professor Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist and statistician. From February 2021 until October 2022 he served as Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility in the Draghi Government. Since 2002 he has been a full professor at Rome University “Tor Vergata”. He was Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Letta Government, President of the Italian Statistical Institute, Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD.

Caroline de Gruyter is a journalist and lecturer based in Brussels. She is a European Affairs correspondent and columnist for the leading Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and a regular contributor to Foreign Policy, EUobserver and De Standaard. She spent more than twenty years covering Europe, from different corners of the continent.

In the new episode of Reimagine Talks, António Vitorino delves into the causes of migration, the challenges and negatives emotions that migrants can have in host communities and on how we can reimagine migration by fostering a mutual relation of interaction and trust. António Vitorino is the former Director-General of the International Organisation for Migration (2018-2023) and former European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs (1999-2004). Vitorino was a Judge of the Constitutional Court in Portugal and Minister of the Presidency and the National Defence under the first government of António Guterres, currently serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Sir Geoffrey John Mulgan CBE (born 1961) is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). From 2011 to 2019 he was Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)[1] and visiting professor at University College London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne. In 2020, he joined the Nordic think tank Demos Helsinki as a Fellow.

Louise Fresco is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 2009, a foreign member of the French Academy of Agriculture, a non-resident member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry in Stockholm, a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Ingeniería in Madrid, a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and a foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Class of Natural Sciences in Brussels. She is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar of the Academy of Science South Africa.

Dino Pedreschi is professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (1989/90), at CWI Amsterdam (1993) and at UCLA (1995).Pedreschi’s current research interests are in data mining and logic in databases, and particularly in data analysis, in spatio-temporal data mining, and in privacy-preserving data mining. He is a member of the program committee of the main international conferences on data mining and knowledge discovery and an associate editor of the journal Knowledge and Information Systems.

Professor de la Feria was tax policy and legal drafting adviser to the Portuguese Government (2011-2012), and to the Government of Timor-Leste (2015-2016); has provided tax policy advice, and/or legal drafting advice to the Governments of Turkey, Uzbekistan, Mozambique, and Jordan, under the auspices of the IMF; and has assisted with the legal drafting of both the Angolan and Sao Tome and Principe’s new VAT laws, again under the auspices of the IMF. She has testified before the UK Houses of Parliament on international tax avoidance (2013), and online tax fraud (2017); before the European Parliament on tax havens (2017) and on VAT rates (2018); before the Parliaments of Timor-Leste (2016) and Sao Tome and Principe (2017) on VAT implementation; and before the Brazilian Congress on indirect tax reform (2020). Professor de la Feria was listed two years running (2015-2016) in the Global Tax 50, by the International Tax Review, as one of the most influential tax people in the World; was co-recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Women in Tax Award, awarded by the Tax Analysts; and was recognised in the 100 Years of Women in Tax, as one of the most influential women in tax in the last 100 years, by the International Fiscal Association (IFA). She features regularly in general media outlets discussing developments in taxation policy around the world, and worked with the BBC Panorama and the Guardian as an expert on the “Paradise Papers” leaks (2017)

Marcin Napiórkowski is a semiotician and contemporary mythologies scholar. He is an associate professor at the University of Warsaw, where he studies how culture shapes public perception of science, collective memory and political trends. He is also an active science communicator and a columnist for the popular Polish weekly “Tygodnik Powszechny”. 

Jeroen van den Hoven is university professor and full professor of Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology and editor in chief of Ethics and Information Technology. He is currently the scientific director of the Delft Design for Values Institute and the founding scientific director of 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology (2007-2013). He is a permanent member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE) to the European Commission. In 2017 he was knighted in the Order of the Lion of The Netherlands.

Lisa Gansky is an international thought leader, writer and speaker on the topic of the collaborative economy or sharing economy, open innovation and entrepreneurship. “Re-Imagine Talks” is a podcast series created by the think tank Re-Imagine Europa to challenge the way we think about fundamental key concepts that define how we understand the world we live in.  The podcast is hosted by Erika Stäel von Holstein and Luca de Biase, RIE’s CEO and Research Director, respectively, and each episode features some of the most innovative, influential and original thinkers of our time.  Check our website and follow us on social media:  Twitter – https://twitter.com/ReImagineEuropa   LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/1825... Website – www.re-imagine.eu

Manuel Castells is Professor of Sociology, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), in Barcelona. He is as well University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, and Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is a fellow of St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. Professor Castells hold the chair of Network Society, Collège d’Études Mondiales, Paris. “Re-Imagine Talks” is a podcast series created by the think tank Re-Imagine Europa to challenge the way we think about fundamental key concepts that define how we understand the world we live in.  The podcast is hosted by Erika Stäel von Holstein and Luca de Biase, RIE’s CEO and Research Director, respectively, and each episode features some of the most innovative, influential and original thinkers of our time.  Check our website and follow us on social media:  Twitter – https://twitter.com/ReImagineEuropa   LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/re-i...   Website – www.re-imagine.eu

What is capitalism and why is so important to understand how it works? What’s the role of private companies in global human development? Is the balance between the governments and the market broken? Does it need to be fixed? How do we do it?  The first chapter of the ReImagine Talks tries to find the answers to these questions with an interview with Rebecca Henderson, Professor at Harvard Business School and author of the best-selling book “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire”. Professor Henderson delve also into how modern capitalism can affect our future prosperity, the well-being of humanity and the survival of humanity of the planet itself.

The podcast to challenge the way we think. Hosted by Erika Staël von Holstein and Luca de Biase.