Why We Need to Talk About Wealth

Speakers: Kehinde Andrews, Laurie Macfarlane, Robert Palmer and Beth Stratford

Our interactive session, presented in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, focused on the subject of wealth and why it matters.

As well as addressing the challenges of wealth inequality faced today, it also provided an opportunity to consider a radical reimagination of ‘wealth’. How can we design more equitable and democratic forms of wealth generation and distribution to support a more just future, free from poverty?

Our expert panel of speakers includes Laurie Macfarlane, Co-director of Future Economy Scotland, a non-partisan think tank that aims to create a new economy that is democratic, sustainable and just; Robert Palmer, Executive Director of Tax Justice UK, an organisation which campaigns for a fairer and more effective tax system in the UK; Beth Stratford, a freelance economist and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL, who was a founder member of the London Renters Union; and Kehinde Andrews, an academic and author specialising in Black Studies, who established the first Black Studies programme in Europe.