London Conference 2023 | Chatham House | 28 June 2023 | Online Event

The world continues to face an uncertain global picture with Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, a resurgence in geopolitical competition between China and the West, and many countries battling inflationary pressures and the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addressing these challenges, the international system of rules, laws and pacts appears to be foundering. Globalization, economic integration, and cooperation are giving way in the contest over resources and inflation.

Yet many global problems cannot be addressed without cooperation between allies and between strategic competitors. The ideals, principles and incentives that lead to consensus need to be renewed.

2023 Speakers

Yasmine Ahmed
UK Director, Human Right Watch

Stephen Almond
Executive Director, Regulatory Risk, Information Commissioner's Office

Dr. Faith Birol
Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Sir Venon Bogdanor
Professor of Government, King's College London

Stephen Doughty MP
Shadow Minister, Europe, North America & UK Overseas Territories, United Kingdom

Antony Frogatt
Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Environment and Society Programme

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard
Associate Fellow, International Law Programme

Lindsey Hilsum
International Editor, Channel 4 News

Robert Kagan
Stephen & Barbara Friedman, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Garry Kasparov
Chairman, Human Rights Foundation

Sir Julian King
Specialist Partner, Flint Global

Bernice Lee
Research Director, Futures; Hoffmann Distinguished Fellow for Sustainability; Chair, Sustainability Accelerator Advisory Board

Carla Lewis
Senior Associate, Clifford Chance

Dr. Particia Lewis
Acting Deputy Director, Reseach Director, Conflict, Science and Transformation; Director, International Security Programme

Dr. Jannie Lilja
Director of Studies, Piece and Development, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Bronwen Maddox
Director and Chief Executive

Isabelle Mateos y Lago
Managing Director, Global Head of the Official Institution Group, Blackrock

Wanjira Mathai
Managing Director, Africa & Global Partnerships, World Resources Institute

Edward Miliband MP
Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero, United Kingdom

Layla Moran MP
Liberal Democrats Spokesperson, Foreign Affaors & International Development and Science, Innovation & Technology

Jennifer Morgan
State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, German Federal Foreign Office

Dr. Ozala Nemat
Research Associate, Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI

Jonas Parello-Plesner
Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies

Jonathan Powell
Director, Inter Mediate

Cesar Rodriguez Garavito
Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law

Dr. Norbert Rottgen MdB
Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, German Bundestag

Rashmin Sagoo
Director, International Law Programme

Pamela San Martin
Former Electoral Councilor, National Electoral Institute(INE) in Mexico

Baraa Shiban
MENA Researcher, Reprieve

Julianne Smith
US Ambassador to NATO

Jamie Susskind
Barrister, 11KBW

Giles Thomson
Director, Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation(OSFI) and Econimic Crime, HM Treasury

Thomas Thune Andersen
Chairperson, Orsted and Lloyds Register

Armida van Rijj
Research Fellow, International Security Programme

Martin Wolf
Chief Economic Commentator, Financial Times

Georgina Wright
Resident Senior Fellow; Director, Europe Program, Institut Montaigne